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Tingzhong Yang |
Tingzhong Yang is a Full Professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China, Director of its Research Center for Tobacco Control, and an academician of the Russian Academy of Social and Fundamental Sciences.He served as an official advisor to the World Health Organization on tobacco control and is an external faculty member of the Injury Control Research Center at West Virginia University. His research focuses on social and behavioral health sciences, with emphasis on tobacco control, health behavior theory and mental stress. He has published over 140 international peer-reviewed papers, edited multiple academic monographs and serves as an editor of the Global Journal of Social Sciences Studies. |
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Zulqarnain Baloch |
Zulqarnain Baloch is currently a professor at the School of Life Science and Technology, Kunming University of Science and Technology, China. Its research directions include molecular epidemiology, public health, infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, and the application of traditional Chinese medicine. He participated in large-scale free HPV screening in ethnic minority areas of Yunnan and conducted research on drug resistance in resource limited areas, focusing on the health challenges brought about by unequal access to medical resources. He has published over 120 international peer-reviewed papers, served as an editorial board member for international journals, and also served as the editor in chief of "Facing HPV: Insights and Countermeasures". |
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Kittisak Wongmahesak |
Kittisak Wongmahesak is a Professor at the School of Political Science, North Bangkok University, Thailand. His research covers political science, public policy and administration, organizational management, and social research. He examines public policy, governance, and social issues from the perspectives of institutional arrangements and social conditions, offering valuable insights into social structures, public service and policy responses to social problems. From 2020 to 2026, he was continuously listed among Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists. According to the AD Scientific Index, he ranks first in Thailand and Asia and 67th worldwide in political science. He also serves on the editorial boards of several international academic journals. |
- Program Chairs -
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Sandro Serpa |
Sandro Serpa is a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of the Azores, Portugal, Senior Researcher at CICS.NOVA.UAc, and a Fellow of multiple British royal societies. He reviews for the European Science Foundation, European Commission, and the United Nations Global Marketplace.His research focuses on digital sociology, social determinants of health, health literacy amid public-health crises and psychological dilemmas under the institutional environment.He has published over 400 works, serves as Editor-in-Chief at IntechOpen and Section Editor at MDPI《Societies》, and was ranked ScholarGPS's 8th top global sociologist (No. 1 in Portugal) for 2021–2025. |
- Publication Chairs -
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Qihui Chen |
Qihui Chen is a Full Professor at the College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, and a faculty member of the Beijing Food Safety Policy and Strategy Research Base. His research focuses on health economics, nutrition and dietary consumption, human capital, economic interventions for health behavior, and health inequality. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals including JAMA Network Open, Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, Economics and Human Biology, Economics Letters, Food Policy, and the International Journal of Educational Development, and serves as an Associate Editor of the China Agricultural Economic Review and a Member of the Editorial Board of Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. |
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Liu Jiankang |
Liu Jiankang is currently a professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University and the dean of the School of Life Sciences and Health at Rehabilitation University. His research interests cover free radical biology, mitochondrial metabolism, molecular mechanisms of aging and chronic diseases, with a focus on nutritional interventions to promote health maintenance. He has published over 280 SCI papers, received academic honors such as being a member of the European Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Arts, and was selected as a highly cited scholar by Elsevier China and a member of Stanford University's "Top 2% Global Scientists" list. He also serves as a council member of the Asian Society for Mitochondrial Research and Medicine and deputy editor in chief of international journals. |
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Hadi Tehrani, PhD |
Hadi Tehrani, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Education and Health Promotion at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Iran, and a researcher at its Social Determinants of Health Research Center. His research focuses on health education and health promotion, health literacy, health behaviors and behavior-change interventions, particularly the links between psychological factors, self-care, and disease prevention. His academic contributions include peer-reviewed studies on stigma, psychological distress and self-care among hypertension patients, and diabetes self-management among adolescents, providing evidence to support health promotion and public health interventions. |
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