Editor-in-Chief & Guest Editor

Dr. Wei Wang, MD, PhD, FFPH, is a full professor of School of Medical Sciences, Edith Cowan University,Australia, and Director/Professor, Beijing Municipal Key Laboratory of Clinical Epidemiology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. He holds the honorary positions as Fellow of the Public Health Faculty, Royal College of Physicians, UK; Adjunct Professor of University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences;and visiting Professor of University of Edinburgh, UK. Dr. Wang’s contributions to medical sciences include service as an Executive Member of the International Society of Translational Medicine (ISTM),Membership of the Standing Committee of the International Association of Physiological Anthropology(IAPA), Membership of the expert panel advising the World Health Organization (WHO) on its ‘Grand Challenges in Genomics for Public Health in Developing Countries’, Member of the Global Health Epidemiology Reference Group (GHERG), and he is a Steering Committee Member of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Initiative on Public Health Genomics. Dr. Wang is the Editorin-Chief of “Family Medicine and Community Health” and at the editorial boards of “Journal of Human Hypertension (Nature Publishing Group)”, “Clinical Translational Medicine”, “EPMA Journal” and“Journal of Global Health”. He has over 100 publications including “Nature Genetics”, “Nature Reviews Cancer”, “New England Journal of Medicine”, “Lancet”, “PLoS Genetics”, “PLoS Medicine”, “PLoS ONE”, “JAMA”, “Journal of Proteome Research” and “Human Genetics”.

Dr. David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, is Professor of Distinction in Global Health in the Faculty of Community Services, School of Occupational and Public Health at Ryerson University, Toronto,Canada. Dr. Zakus’s service, teaching and research activities focus on international and global health,primary health care, human resource and health systems development, management and reform, community-based health services, community participation, e-Health solutions, and environmental sustainability. He has extensive knowledge and experience in academia, non-governmental organizations and multilateral institutions, having occupied senior roles within each. He has worked in over 40 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, East and Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, as an educator and researcher, and public health and health services consultant and professional. Dr. Zakus has many published research papers and recently he started publishing the Planetary Health Weekly (www.planetaryhealth.ca) to spread information about important and urgent global health and ecological issues.