Dr Alistair McGregor is a graduate of Otago University (1982), and trained in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in Christchurch, Canberra and Sydney before moving to Hobart in 1996. He worked as full time staff specialist and was Director of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Royal Hobart Hospital for a number of years before commencing diagnostic practice at Hobart Pathology. He is an active member of the Australian Society of Microbiology and the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and sits on the RCPA Specialist Advisory Committee for Infectious Diseases.

Adrian’s primary research interest is in the effects of vitamin D on human health. His work combines laboratory investigation of the effects of vitamin D on the immune system with a series of multi-centre clinical trials and meta-analyses, investigating the potential role of vitamin D supplementation as an agent to prevent respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases.He is clinical Chief Investigator for the Vitamin D and Longevity trial (VIDAL, a NIHR-funded study investigating effects of vitamin D supplementation on all-cause mortality in UK adults aged 65-84 years) and the ViDiKids trial (a MRC-funded study investigating whether vitamin D can prevent tuberculosis infection among primary schoolchildren in Cape Town, South Africa). He sits on the NICE Public Health Advisory Committee on Vitamin D, and works clinically in the Tuberculosis Clinic at Barts Health NHS Trust. Adrian has an active PhD programme and enquiries from prospective PhD or MD students interested in respiratory infection and / or vitamin D are welcome.Adrian gained a B Med Sci degree in Epidemiology and Public Health from Newcastle University in 1995, and graduated from Newcastle Medical School in the following year. He then gained a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from Liverpool University before working as a Medical Officer in South Africa. He returned to Liverpool to continue medical training in 1999, and became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 2001. Adrian joined Queen Mary as a lecturer in Respiratory Medicine in 2002, and established a programme of laboratory and clinical research into the immunomodulatory actions of vitamin D in tuberculosis. He received his PhD in 2010, and is currently conducting clinical trials of vitamin D supplementation to prevent respiratory infections and non-communicable diseases in the UK, South Africa and Mongolia. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2017.

Mike Mariani is a writer and educator based in Hoboken, NJ. His work has appeared in the LA Review of Books, the Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Hazlitt magazine and others.

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Dr. Ananya Mandal is a medical doctor, having achieved her MBBS degree in 2002 from Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital, followed by an MD in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics from The Institute of Post graduate Medical Education and Research, West Bengal.At present she works as an Associate Professor at a Government Medical College in West Bengal, teaching Pharmacology to second year MBBS students and also post-graduate students pursuing an MD.Dr. Mandal has been writing research articles and synopses of complex studies for many years, making things easier and simpler for students and other academic professionals to understand.

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Dr Livingstone’s research interests include dietary patterns, cardiometabolic health and personalised nutrition. She has expertise in dietary pattern methodologies to understand overall diet quality and how this relates to risk of obesity and chronic disease. She also has an interest in personalized nutrition and the role of genetic and phenotypic information. She is involved with a pan-European randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effect of personalized nutrition on on change in dietary and physical activity behaviors. She has a competitive track record relative to opportunity, with experience publishing over 50 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals in her field. Dr Livingstone also has experience on Editorial Boards, by acting as Associate Editor for Public Health Nutrition, and in peer-reviewing publications for high impact journals in the field of Nutrition and Health.

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As one of Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology’s senior pathologists, Dr David Kanowski reports across all aspects of biochemistry including clinical chemistry, endocrinology and toxicology.

Anya Kamenetz is an education correspondent at NPR. She joined NPR in 2014, working as part of a new initiative to coordinate on-air and online coverage of learning. Since then the NPR Ed team has won a 2017 Edward R. Murrow Award for Innovation, and a 2015 National Award for Education Reporting for the multimedia national collaboration, the Grad Rates project. Kamenetz is the author of several books. Her latest is The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (PublicAffairs, 2018). Her previous books touched on student loans, innovations to address cost, quality, and access in higher education, and issues of assessment and excellence: Generation Debt; DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education, and The Test.