Prof. Neil Poulter

Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine

Imperial College London

London, United Kingdom

Neil Poulter is a Professor of Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine at Imperial College London, co-Director of the International Centre for Circulatory Health and Director of the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit. He is an Honorary Consultant Physician and Epidemiologist at the Peart-Rose (CVD Prevention) Clinic based at Hammersmith Hospital, London, where he is actively involved in the treatment of patients with hypertension and related problems. He is the Chief Investigator of the May Measurement Month, an annual global blood pressure screening campaign initiated during his presidency of the International Society of Hypertension.

Prof Martin Magnussen

Professor in Cardiology

Department of Clinical Science

Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Martin Magnussen is a Professor in Cardiology at the Department of Clinical Science, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden. He is a senior consultant in Cardiology at the Department of Cardiology, Skåne University Hospital; a Extraordinary Professor at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa; and a clinical fellow at the Wallenberg Centre, Lund University.

Professor Ushotanefe Useh B.Sc. (Hons), LLB,(Bachelor of Laws)  M.Ed, PhD FHEA

Ushotanefe Useh is the Director of the Lifestyle Diseases Research Entity, Faculty of Health Sciences, North-West University, Mafikeng Campus, South Africa. He is also a registered physiotherapist with the Health Professions Councils of South Africa and the United Kingdom, an advocate of the high Court of South Africa, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (United Kingdom). His research focus is on lifestyle disease risks and prevention with emphasis on advocacy, children, and rural African communities.

Professor Hans Strijdom

Hans Strijdom is a clinician‐turned‐academic, and currently Professor and Head of the Division of Medical Physiology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Cardio‐metabolic Research in Africa at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. His broader research focuses on the physiology and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular system, with a particular interest in vascular and endothelial biology. Apart from his research activities, he is a full‐time lecturer in undergraduate and postgraduate human physiology in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University.

Professor Alta (AE) Schutte PhD FESC FRSSAf ISHF

Alta Schutte is a SHARP Professor and Principal Theme Lead of Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine at the University of New South Wales, with a joint appointment as Professorial Fellow at the George Institute for Global Health. She has extraordinary appointments at the North-West University and University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is the senior author of the 2020 International Society of Hypertension Global Hypertension Guidelines.

Prof. Makama Andries Monyeki

Makama Andries Monyeki is a Professor in the School of Human Movement Sciences, North-West University, South Africa, and affiliate of PhASRec (Physical Activity, Sport and Recreation). Professor Monyeki is the principal investigator of Physical Activity and Health Longitudinal Study (PAHLS, 2010 -2014), and Body Composition using stable Isotopes Techniques (BC–IT; IAEA funded) study; and a collaborator on the ExAMIN Youth SA study. He recently participated in the drafting and review of the first National Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Obesity in South Africa.

Prof. Cristian Ricci

Cristian Ricci is an Associate Professor at the Africa Unit for Transdisciplinary Health Research (AUTHeR) in the Faculty of Health Sciences of the North-West University, South Africa. He applies biostatistics methods to many different fields of medicine and bioscience, and developed specific knowledge in multivariate space reduction techniques, statistical modelling, variable selection, power analysis, meta-analysis and meta-regression, non-parametric modelling and analysis, statistical methods for clinical trials and epidemiological studies (time-to-event analysis, competing risk analysis, multi-state modelling, etc.).

Prof. Lisa Ware

Lisa Ware is an Associate Professor at the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development and an Associate Director of the MRC Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and she has a background in nutrition, physiology and health psychology (Southampton University, UK). Her research focuses on identification and modification of behavioural risk factors for hypertension and cardiovascular disease (CVD).She has led Wellcome Trust funded research investigating intergenerational transmission of CV risk within South African families. She currently runs a research platform in Soweto, evaluating the impact of health-focused youth employment interventions on the health of participating youth and the surrounding community (witshealthhubb.org).