Professor Briggs is Adjunct Professor of the College of Health Systems Management at the Naresuan University of Thailand, and Editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management. He is the President of Society for Health Administration Programs in Education (SHAPE). Professor Briggs is Fellow, Life Member and Past National President of the Australasian College of Health Services Management (ACHSM), and Founding Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Health Service Executives. He was the recipient of the NSW ACHSM Presidents Award 2014 for his extensive contributions to the College and to health services in NSW.
He has had extensive senior management and governance experience in the public health sector. His consultancy, research and publications include work in the health sector, most recently in PHC, in the Asia Pacific as well as Australia. Currently he is a Director of a PHC network, HNECCPHN and Chairs the Research, Innovation, Design and Planning Sub Committee, former Chair, New England Medicare Local, former Director, HealthWise P/L, a Director of DSB Consulting A/Asia P/L and a former Director of North West Division of General Practice.
Professor Briggs was previously Head of the Health Management Program at the University of New England and has taught across the range of course units in that program both domestically, and overseas at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research and publications interest focus on health reform, health systems management and the potential for distributed networks of practice in the delivery of primary health care. He has presented and published extensively in relation to his work in the Asia Pacific and this detail is available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Briggs/timeline .

Professor Hasegawa is Professor and Chair of the Division of Health Policy and Health Service Research Department of Social Medicine at the Toho University School of Medicine of Japan. He had his medical education at the Tokyo University School of Medicine, where also received his Doctor of Philosophy. He was previously a Resident at the Tokyo University Hospital in Internal Medicine.

He is a member of the Japanese Society of Public Health, Japanese Society of Hygiene, Japanese Society of Transplantation, Japanese Society of Hospital Administration, Japanese Society of Healthcare Management. He also holds membership of the following specialist councils or committees: Ministry of Labour, Health and Welfare, Committee on Disclosure of Healthcare Information, Committee on the Administration of Healthcare Organizations, Cabinet Office Council for Regulatory Reform, Office for the Promotion of Regulatory Reform and Private Finance Initiative, Japan Council for Quality in Health Care Center for Medical Accident Prevention (vice-chair).

Professor Hasegawa’s research background includes health policy, health economics, quality assessment of health care.

Professor Hasegawa is President of the Future Health Research Institute. He is a retired Professor of Nippon Medical School after a long career in the Japanese government, including development of elderly care policy and management of Japanese national hospitals. He graduated from Harvard School of Public Health for MPH, from Osaka University Medical School for MD, and finished General Surgical Residency in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

He taught at many medical schools in Japan as Visiting Professor of health policy and hospital management. He did research on health policy, health sector reform, planning and evaluation of disease management program, hospital strategic management and international health. Professor Hasegawa published many papers and books about ageing society, international health, health policy, hospital management, health care delivery system　and　safety and quality of care including the Hospital Strategic Management in 2002 that was translated in Korean, Thai, Russian and Chinese and the International Symposium on Health Transition and Health Sector Reform in Asia in 1998.

Professor Lu is a Professor in the Graduate Institute of Business and Management and Department of Health Care Management of the College of Management at Chang Gung University in Taiwan, where she teaches comparative health systems, health economics, and health care financing and has served as Department Chair (2000-2004), Associate Dean (2009-2010), and Dean of College of Management (2010-2013). She earned her B.S. from National Taiwan University, and her M.S. and Sc.D. from Harvard University.

Professor Lu was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Stanford University (2015-2016), and a Takemi Fellow at Harvard (2004-2005), and she is also currently an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University (2007-2017). She co-founded Taiwan Society of Health Economics (TaiSHE) in 2008 and currently serves as President of TaiSHE (2014-2017). Professor Lu is also a member of the Arrow Award Committee for International Association of Health Economics (iHEA) (2014-2016), and iHEA board director.

Her research focuses on 1) the equity issues of the health care system; 2) impact of the NHI program on health care market and household consumption patterns; 3) comparative health systems in Asia-Pacific region. She is a long-time and active member of Equitap (Equity in Asia-Pacific Health Systems) research network.  Professor Lu has been appointed to serve on several advisory boards to Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare, National Health Insurance Administration, and Ministry of Science and Technology.

Dr Tejativaddhana is the Assistant to the President for Comprehensive Operations of the Naresuan University (NU) at Phitsanulok in Thailand, and the Assistant Professor of the College of Health Systems Management at NU. He has been assigned to establish and manage the College of Health Systems Management at NU, which aims to create body of knowledge on health systems management and train managers and researchers in this field in order to help support Thailand and other countries in this sub-region especially in ASEAN to achieve the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2030. He was commissioned to consider a draft of the Public Health Professional Act which was successfully enacted in 2013. He initiated the award for the best public health practitioners in Thailand and was conferred the name of the award from H.M. King Bhumipol as ‘Jayanadnarendhorn’ (The name of Thai prince who is the founder of Thai Public Health Ministry).

Dr Tejativaddhana is a general practitioner by background and has been in senior executive roles both in the public and private sectors for many years. He is a founding Director of the Lower-northern Region Heart Centre at NU, advisor to the Minister of Public Health, member of the Senate Standing Committee on Public Health, member of the Subcommittee on Health Services Reform, National Reform Council, former Vice President of Navamindradhiraj University, Bangkok and former Dean of the Faculty of Public Health, NU. He initiated and headed the Master of Public Health program with an emphasis on health services management at NU, a program that was funded by the National Health Security Office.

Dr Tejativaddhana’s research and publications interest focus on health reform, health systems management, and primary health care. Internationally, Dr Tejativaddhana is the founding member of the South-East Asia Primary Health Care Innovations Network (SEAPIN) which is supported by the WHO SEARO. He is also the founding member of the Greater Mekong Subregion Public Health Academic Network, which includes the Deans and the Rector of 14 public health academic institutions in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

Dr Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management of the Sun Yat-sen University in China. She received her PhD in health economics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, her MSc in economics from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

As a doctoral student, she spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of California in the Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Public Health. Dr Zhang’s research focus is health economics, especially health insurance reform, health care financing, health policy evaluation, and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Professor Peter P. Yuen is Dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Education (CPCE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He is also Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing of PolyU.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology and Master in Business Administration degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Economics from the University of Birmingham. Professor Yuen’s research involves public policy formulation and evaluation, and health services management. He is an Editor of Public Administration and Policy and an Editorial Committee member of Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management. He is also a consultant for the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Bauhinia Foundation on a number of public policy related projects including the West Kowloon Cultural District, Sustainable Built Environment, Subsidized Homeownership, Managed Care, and Health Systems Reform.
Professor Yuen is currently the Chairman of the Federation for Self-financing Tertiary Education (Hong Kong). He is a founding Fellow of the Hong Kong College of Health Services Executives, and an Honorary Fellow of the Australian College of Health Services Management. He once served as Vice-President of the Chinese National Institute of Health Care Management Education, and President of the Hong Kong Public Administration Association.