Sujatha Rao, a 1974 batch IAS officer, is a former Union Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. In her 36 years of service as a civil servant, she has spent 20 years in the health sector in different capacities at the state and federal levels. She holds an MA from Delhi University, an MPA from Harvard University, USA 1991-92 and was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health 2001-2002 and Gro Harlem Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at HSPH in 2012. She is the author of the book entitled “Do We Care? India’s Health System” published by Oxford University Press in 2017.

Dr Sudarshan Iyengar is a Gandhian economist and a former Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Vidyapith, in Ahmedabad, India, the university founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1920. Sudarshan calls himself a social volunteer by disposition. He also headed the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, the Centre for Social Studies, Surat and served as a Distinguished Chair Professor of Gandhian Philosophy at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He is a Director of the Gandhi Research Foundation Jalgaon, and a trustee at the Sabarmati Gandhi Ashram.

Dr.Iyengar researches in the areas of the commons and natural resource development and management, non-government institutions and Gandhian thought and practice. He has published around 70 papers and articles and eight books. His 2016 book In the Footsteps of Mahatma: Gandhi and Sanitation by the Publication Division, Government of India, has been translated into Gujarati and Tamil. He now works with Action Research in Community Health and Development (ARCH) in Western India.

Dr Pavitra Mohan is a community health physician, pediatrician, and public health practitioner. He is a co-founder and Director at Basic HealthCare Services (BHS). BHS is a start-up not-for-profit organization, registered as a Trust and is driven by the vision of a responsive and effective healthcare ecosystem that is rooted in the community, where the most vulnerable communities can actively access high-quality, low-cost health services with dignity.

Dr Mohan also serves as Director, Health Services, Aajeevika Bureau, working to improve health of the families dependent on labour and migration. He was also a senior health specialist at UNICEF's India Country Office. He also taught in the RNT Medical College in Udaipur and worked at Action Research and Training for Health (ARTH), a leading public health NGO. Pavitra is a Fellow with the prestigious National Neonatology Forum of India and is also the recipient of the Ashoka Fellowship. He has an MBBS and an MD from Delhi University, and a master's in public health from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Kaumudi Joshipura joined Ahmedabad University as the Dean of the Bagchi School of Public Health and the Susmita and Subroto Bagchi Professor in Public Health in 2023. Professor Joshipura is also an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). She served as the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Endowed Chair and as Director of the Center for Clinical Research and Health Promotion (CCRHP) at the University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus.

Professor Joshipura has a Master's degree in Biostatistics and a Doctorate in Epidemiology from Harvard University (completed in a record time of two years). Her research (H-index 66) has focused on evaluating lifestyle factors, microbial and inflammatory markers, and other modifiable risk factors for cardiometabolic and other non-communicable diseases. Her recent work includes hurricane preparedness and COVID-19. She has mentored numerous students and faculty and led several NIH-funded projects, including cohort studies, a randomised controlled trial, and a mentoring grant.

She has served on several editorial boards and is currently the inaugural Chief Editor for an open-access Frontiers journal, now PubMed and Scopus indexed with over 1000 editors/reviewers. At HSPH, she developed and taught methodological and substantive courses, co-directed training grants. She is on the steering committee for the Master of Public Health programme in Epidemiology. She has served as an advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Association of Periodontology (AAP), and the World Health Organization (WHO). She is serving on the American Public Health Association advisory committee on Climate and Health Equity.

She focuses on identifying and promoting preventive measures that are free, low-cost, or cost-saving, and that can be adopted widely and globally. To this end, she founded a global public movement, "VMove" (read "We Move" https://www.vmovement.org/), to help individuals and organisations incorporate physical activity throughout the day. VMove, launched at a TEDx talk, aims to reduce the risk of several chronic diseases by promoting "CreActivity" (creative physical activity) in different settings to enable people to overcome barriers, change norms and move more throughout the day in a fun manner, and encouraging everyone to help spread and lead the movement. She has also written songs to translate research into action (to reduce sedentary time and single-use plastic). She is passionate about improving both human and planetary health and promoting wellness.