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Dr. Megan L. Ranney is an emergency physician. Currently, she is a Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University. Additionally, she is the Academic Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and is the founding Director of the Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health.Dr. Ranney is known for bringing public attention to the lack of protective equipment for frontline workers in the U.S. during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. She launched the grassroots organization #GetUsPPE to collect, create and distribute protective equipment around the United States.Dr. Ranney received her B.A. in History of Science from Harvard University. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cote d'Ivoire, then received her medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She completed internship, residency, and chief residency in Emergency Medicine, as well as a fellowship in Injury Prevention Research and a Master of Public Health, at Brown University.

Dr. Francis Collins is an American physician-geneticist who discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases and led the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, United States.

Peter J. Hotez is the founding dean of The National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, as well as director of the Texas Children's Hospital Center for Vaccine Development. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of National Academies as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Leana Wen is a physician, public health advocate, President of the Planned Parenthood Federation, and author.

Dr. Vikas Saini is a cardiologist and President & CEO at Lown Institute.

Dr. Miguel Cardona is an educator.

Dr. Uché Blackstock is a physician, former Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the New York University School of Medicine, and Founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equity.

Bill McKibben is an environmentalist, author, educator, and journalist.

Norman Edward "Ned" Sharpless is the current Director of the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Anthony Fauci is an American physician and immunologist who has served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984. Since January 2020, he has been one of the lead members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic in the United States.As a physician with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the United States, he has served public health in various capacities for over fifty years. He has made contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the NIAID at the NIH. The New York Times called Fauci "the nation's leading expert on infectious diseases".

Stephen "Steve" Bullock is an American politician, attorney, and former professor who is the 24th Governor of Montana.

Rosa DeLauro is a politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 3rd congressional district since 1991.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb is a physician and investor.

Dr. Michael Osterholm is a public health scientist and biosecurity and infectious disease expert.

John Carreyrou is an author and journalist. He is known for having exposed the company Theranos to be a fraud.Carreyrou has reported for the The Wall Street Journal and has been based in Brussels, Paris, and New York City.Carreyrou began his career at the Dow Jones Newswires. He later joined The Wall Street Journal Europe at Brussels, then moved to Paris, then was appointed the deputy bureau chief for Southern Europe, then the bureau chief of the health and science bureau in New York. He has won the Pulitzer Prize twice.Carreyrou was raised in Paris. He received his B.A. in political science and government from Duke University.

Sam Sternberg works as a doctoral researcher in the Doudna Lab at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the growth of the revolutionary genome editing tool, CRISPR, and he was awarded the Scaringe Award from the RNA Society and the Harold Weintraub Graduate Student Award from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. is an American politician and businessman who served as the 42nd Governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party.

Dr. Donald M. Berwick MD is a pediatrician who specializes in public health. Currently, he is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.Dr. Berwick is a former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Before that, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement a not-for-profit organization.Dr. Berwick's work focuses on the management of health care systems, with emphasis on using scientific methods and evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research to improve the tradeoff among quality, safety, and costs.

Apoorva Mandavilli is a reporter for The New York Times and focusing on science & global health.