Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, MD, DPhil, is a public health physician and epidemiologist. He serves the City of Detroit as the Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department and Health Officer. Under his leadership, the Detroit Health Department has emerged as a state and national leader in promoting healthy air quality, lead elimination, and public health innovation. Dr. El-Sayed's research explores urban health policy, the social determinants of health, and health inequalities. Previously, he was a professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University.


Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, is a physician and an epidemiologist interested in the social production of health of urban populations. His work explores innovative cells-to-society approaches to population health questions. He is interested in advancing a consequentialist approach to population health scholarship. He currently serves as Robert A. Knox Professor and Dean of the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is a past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Together they have been engaged in systems science scholarship and education for more than 15 years.

Sanjay Basu, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

Hege Bøvelstad, Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

Bobbi J. Carothers, Center for Public Health Systems Science, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

Magdalena Cerdá, Department of Emergency Medicine, Violence Prevention Research Program, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA.

Daniel Chen, Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

Amar Dhand, Department of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

Abdulrahman M. El-Sayed, Detroit Health Department, City of Detroit, Detroit, MI.

James H. Faghmous, Arnhold Global Health Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.

David S. Fink, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Sandro Galea, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA.

Kristin Heitman, Independent Scholar, Bethesda, MD.

Katherine M. Keyes, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Eric Lofgren, Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

David W. Lounsbury, Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY.

Douglas A. Luke, Center for Public Health Systems Science, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.

Eiliv Lund, Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

Brandon Marshall, Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI.

Stephen Mooney, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Karina Standahl Olsen, Department of Community Medicine, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway.

Mark Orr, Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory, Biocomplexity Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.

Nathaniel Osgood, Department of Computer Science, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Bioengineering Division, University of Saskatchewan, SK, Canada.

Anton Palma, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Helen de Pinho, Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY.

Melissa Tracy, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, NY.

Kathryn Ziemer, Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA.