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Olusoji Adeyi is Coordinator of Public Health Programs in the Human Development Network of the World Bank, where he leads a number of initiatives on global public health policies, strategies and global public goods. Dr. Adeyi is team leader for the integration of health systems and priority health, nutrition and population interventions. He manages an initiative to design the Affordable Medicines Facility-malaria (AMFm), based on a high-level global subsidy. He led the Task Force that developed the World Banks Global Strategy and Booster Program for malaria control. Dr. Adeyi is the lead author of Public policy and the challenge of chronic non-communicable diseases, and convener of the analytical work on the economic benefit of tuberculosis control. Dr. Adeyi has extensive experience in policies, strategies and programs for health systems, service delivery and disease control at the global, regional and country levels. He has led major initiatives and programs, including: the Health Reform Implementation Program and the Tuberculosis and AIDS Control Program in Russia; Basic Health Services, Essential Hospital Services and War Victims Rehabilitation Programs in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Health Sector Reform in Romania; and Health Sector Recovery and Development in Albania. Dr. Adeyi has worked on the quality and costs of maternal health care in Nigeria, strategies and programs for AIDS control in Nigeria, rural health insurance in Thailand and the development of health services and information systems at the district level in Ethiopia. Dr. Adeyi holds a doctorate in health systems from the Johns Hopkins University, a masters in public health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, a medical degree from the University of Ife in Nigeria, and an MBA from Imperial College, London.

Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist specializing in domestic and global public health, health policy and medicine. She is a contributing writer at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy of the University of Minnesota and has just completed a term as a Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. From 1995-2006, McKenna was a national desk science and medical writer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, where she covered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, becoming the only reporter to be embedded with a CDC investigative team during the 2001 anthrax-letter attacks. She reported from the 2005 tsunami and from Hurricane Katrina, as well as from Southeast Asia, Africa and the Arctic. McKenna has covered avian and pandemic influenza since 1997, when she wrote the first story in the American media on the potential threat posed by avian flu H5N1. Previously, Maryn McKenna worked for *The Boston Herald*, where stories she co-wrote on illnesses among veterans of the first Persian Gulf War led to the first Congressional hearings on Gulf War Syndrome, and at the Cincinnati Enquirer, where her stories on the association between local cancer clusters and contamination escaping a federal nuclear weapons plant contributed to a successful nuclear-harm lawsuit by residents. Ms. McKenna is a cum laude graduate of Georgetown University and has a master's degree with highest honors from Northwestern University. She has held short fellowships at Harvard Medical School and the University of Maryland and in 1998-1999 was the Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow in Medicine at University of Michigan's schools of medicine and public health. In 2006, she was an inaugural Health Journalism Fellow of the East-West Center in Honolulu and is now an Associate of the Center.

Brenda Wilson is an award-winning correspondent and editor for NPR on national and international public health. She has developed a consistent body of work, examining the link between human behavior, social conditions, health and disease. For more than a decade, Wilson has reported on the global HIV/AIDS epidemic, other infectious diseases and public health issues. She has traveled throughout Africa and India interviewing people from all walks of life, including heads of state, international health experts, development specialists and others. Wilson was awarded a Kaiser Foundation Media Fellowship in 1999 to study the impact of AIDS on migrant workers in South Africa. She also shared a DuPont/Columbia Award for *Breaking the Silence*, an NPR series on AIDS in the black community, which also won an award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Wilson has worked at NPR as a producer and a reporter in Washington, covering social policy and the White House. She began her NPR career in 1979 as Associate Producer for *Morning Edition*. She has a BA degree in English literature from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Colleen Mone Hardy is a field epidemiologist with the International Rescue Committee, a non-governmental organization that provides humanitarian assistance, protection and resettlement services to refugees and victims of armed conflict. In this position, she provides technical support to International Rescue Committee's health programs in a number of countries. Colleen has worked in a variety of humanitarian settings with the IRC, the World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Africa and S.East Asia. She represented IRC on an interagency assessment team, which included US military, UN and Non-governmental agencies, off the west coast of Sumatra Island, following the tsunami. She is currently working in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with a five member IRC team, assisting with a number of assessments.

Mike Lemonick is a senior science writer at *Time* magazine in New York. He has worked there for 12 years, though he left for a short while in 1988 to become executive editor at *Discover* magazine. Before coming to Time, he was a senior editor at *Science Digest* magazine for three years and before that he was a graduate student in journalism at Columbia University. Lemonick got his undergraduate degree from Harvard.

Walter Cronkite (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009), the former managing editor of the *CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite*, has been called "the most trusted man in America." Born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Mr. Cronkite began his career as a news writer and editor for Scripps-Howard and United Press. He was a war correspondent for United Press and, after the war, reopened news bureaus for UP in Amsterdam and Brussels. Mr. Cronkite was the chief correspondent covering the Nuremberg trials and also served as bureau manager in Moscow. In 1950 he joined CBS as a television correspondent. Mr. Cronkite is the recipient of a Peabody Award, the William White Award for Journalistic Merit, an Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the George Polk Journalism Award, and a Gold Medal from the International Radio and Television Society. He is a long-time member of the Society of Professional Journalists. His 1996 autobiography, *A Reporter's Life*, was a bestseller. An avid sailor, Mr. Cronkite wrote the text for South by Southeast, a record of his impressions sailing the waterways from Chesapeake Bay to Key West. A sequel, *North by Northeast*, was also published.

Charles Osgood, often referred to as *CBS News*' poet-in-residence, has been anchor of *CBS News Sunday Morning* since 1994. He also anchors and writes "The Osgood File," his daily news commentary broadcast on the CBS Radio Network. Osgood was recognized with the 2008 National Association of Broadcasters Distinguished Service Award. He was the recipient of the 2005 Paul White Award, presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, for lifetime contribution to electronic journalism. In 2005, Osgood received the Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism Award from Arizona State University. He was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame in 2000 and joined the ranks of the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 1990. Osgood was born in New York. He was graduated from Fordham University in 1954 with a B.S. degree in economics and holds honorary doctorates from 11 institutions of higher learning. He has served as a trustee for Fordham University and St. Bonaventure, is an overseer at Colby College and is a trustee at the School of Strings in Manhattan. Osgood has performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and played the piano and banjo with the New York Pops and Boston Pops Orchestras.