Joelle M. Abi-Rached is a tenured Associate Professor of Medicine at the American University of Beirut, with a secondary appointment in History and Archaeology, and Associate at the Department of History of Science at Harvard University. She is an interdisciplinary social scientist of medicine, trained as a medical doctor, a philosopher, and a historian of science. Among her publications are ʿAṣfūriyyeh: A History of Madness, Modernity, and War in the Middle East (MIT Press, 2020) and Neuro: The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind (Princeton University Press, 2013) co-authored with Nikolas Rose.

Warwick Anderson is Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance, and Ethics in the School of Social and Political Sciences and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. His most recent book is Spectacles of Waste (Polity, 2024). In 2023, he was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

David Bannister is a historian and anthropologist of disease and public health at the Institute for Health and Society, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo. His research includes changing conceptions of fairness in health, social histories of state healthcare, social and community medicine, and how healthcare reshapes natural environments.

Rama V. Baru is Professor Emeritus at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her research focus is on social determinants of health, health policy and comparative health.

Anne-Emanuelle Birn is Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Toronto. Her books include Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico (University of Rochester Press, 2006); Comrades in Health (Rutgers University Press, 2013); Textbook of Global Health (Oxford University Press, 4th ed., 2017); Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America (Duke University Press, 2020); and Going Public: The Unmaking and Remaking of Universal Healthcare (Cambridge University Press, 2023). She received the Viseltear Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health History, 2023.

P. Sean Brotherton is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at New York University and the President of the Society for Medical Anthropology. Among his publications are Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba (Duke University Press, 2012) and Global Health, Otherwise: Cuba and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Duke University Press, in press).

Kenneth Rochel de Camargo is full Professor at the Hésio Cordeiro Institute of Social Medicine, Rio de Janeiro State University. He is Editor Emeritus of the American Journal of Public Health, Senior Editor of Global Public Health, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Editora Fiocruz.

Eric D. Carter is Edens Professor of Geography and Global Health at Macalester College, Saint Paul, USA. He is the author of In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine (University of North Carolina Press, 2023).

James Dunk is Research Fellow at the School of Social and Political Sciences, and Co-Director of the Ecological Emotions Research Lab, University of Sydney. A historian and interdisciplinary researcher, his historical studies of mental health, psychology, and planetary health has been published in medical, psychological, and historical journals.

Xiaoping Fang is Associate Professor of Chinese Studies at Monash University. He is the author of Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China (University of Rochester Press, 2012) and China and the Cholera Pandemic: Restructuring Society under Mao (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021).

Sebastian Fonseca is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Trust-funded “Connecting 3 Worlds,” University of Exeter, and a physician with a PhD in Global Health and Social Medicine. He also lectures at the University of Maastricht. His research interests lie at the intersection between the history of medicine, Cold War scholarship, and Science and Technology Studies.

Jeremy A. Greene is a practicing physician and historian based in Baltimore, MD, whose writing explores the social lives and political stakes of everyday medical technologies and the unfulfilled promise of health equity. He is the founding Director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and sees patients in a community health center in East Baltimore.

Per Haave was Guest Researcher at the Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo. He published on topics such as the history of psychiatry, eugenics and sterilization, of the Romani people in Norway, and on the history of the “welfare state” as a key concept in Norwegian politics. Sadly, Haave passed away before the completion of this book.

Helena Hansen is Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an addiction psychiatrist and anthropologist. She is also leading a national movement for training clinical practitioners to address social determinants of health which she with Jonathan Metzl have labeled “Structural Competency.”

Lidia Helou is currently pursuing a PhD in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies – Culture and Representation – at New York University. She holds a double degree in history and political sciences from the Sorbonne University and a dual master’s degree in international and world history from Columbia University and the London School of Economics.

David S. Jones teaches the history of medicine, medical ethics, and social medicine at Harvard University. He trained in psychiatry and the history of science. David’s research has ranged from the history of epidemics to heart disease, cardiac therapeutics, air pollution, and the effects of the climate crisis on health.

Anne Kveim Lie is Professor of Medical History at the University of Oslo. As a physician–historian, her work has explored the history of infectious disease and pharmaceuticals, antibiotic resistance, and climate change. She works as a physician north of the Polar Circle every summer and volunteers at the Health Centre for undocumented migrants in Oslo.

Laurence Monnais is Professor of the History of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Lausanne–Lausanne University Hospital. A specialist of the history of medicine in Southeast Asia, she has also worked on the history of public health and mass vaccination in Canada. Her most recent project deals with a global history of measles.

Connie Musolino is Research Fellow in Stretton Health Equity at the University of Adelaide. She is an early career researcher with expertise in social science, gender studies and public health. Currently she is examining policies and practices to address health inequalities in Australia.

Abigail H. Neely is Associate Professor of Geography at Dartmouth College. Her book Reimagining Social Medicine from the South (Duke University Press, 2021) rethinks the history of social medicine through African communities. Her current book project examines the failures of post-apartheid South Africa through the epidemic of death amongst the country’s youth.

Scott H. Podolsky is Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Center for the History of Medicine at the Countway Medical Library, Harvard University. He is the author of The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance, and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015).

Hans Pols is Professor at the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the history of medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia as well as on the recent history of psychiatry and mental health services in Indonesia and Australia.

Carsten Timmermann is Director of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on the history of modern biomedicine. He has published on pharmaceuticals, cancer research and therapy, cardiovascular disease, and the debate over a crisis of medicine in interwar Germany.

Dora Vargha is Professor of History and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter, jointly based at Humboldt University in Berlin, with a research focus on global health history from a socialist perspective. She is author of Polio across the Iron Curtain (Cambridge University Press, 2018).