Meet the Volume Editors

Jasneth Mullings, Ph.D., is a social epidemiologist in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Jamaica. She holds a master's degree in public health/health education and was the first graduate from UWI to obtain a Ph.D. in Epidemiology. Her research interests span the arenas of mental health, urban health, community health and related interventions, with research focused on the mental health effects of neighbor-

hood structural and social processes. Dr. Mullings currently serves as a strategic advisor to UrbanHealth360, global thought leaders in urban health, and is a member of the International Society for Urban Health.

Dr. Tomlin Paul is a family physician and health professions educator currently serving as deputy principal of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Jamaica. He previously served as the chair of the Educational Development and Quality Center at the University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda. He also served as the dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences at UWI. His research interests include health promotion, medical education, social

accountability, and global health. Dr. Paul has received several awards, including the Five Star Doctor Award for the North American Region from the World Organization of National Colleges and Associations for Family Physicians (WONCA) and UWI's Vice Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in the areas of teaching and quality assurance. He is a member of the ASPIRE Academy of the Association of Medical Education of Europe, Health Systems Global, and the International Social Accountability and Accreditation Think Tank.

Leith Dunn, Ph.D., is a sociologist and gender analyst, honorary research fellow, and former senior lecturer/head of the University of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Jamaica. She is also a research affiliate in the Department of Sociology in Botswana under the Isaac Shapera Project. She holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science as well as an MSc (Sociology) and

BA (Hons) from UWI. Dr. Dunn's research interests include gender mainstreaming in socioeconomic development policies and programs; sexual and reproductive health and rights; climate change and disasters; labor standards (human trafficking, domestic workers); migration and human trafficking; and rights of women, children and persons with disabilities. In 2019, Apolitical.com named Dr. Dunn among the 100 most influential persons globally for promoting gender equality policies.

Julie Meeks Gardner is Professor of Child Development and Nutrition and Director of Graduate Studies and Research at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Open Campus. She trained at the Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, UWI, in human nutrition and child development, and did post-doctoral work on cross-cultural assessments of child cognition at the MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge University, UK. Her research has focused on the

nutritional status and development of children in difficult circumstances, and on child protection issues, including the developmental path of aggression and violence, the effects of violence on children, and intervention studies to reduce aggression among children and high-risk youth. More recently, she led an interventional study on children aging out of state care and was a co-investigator in a series of studies on remote acculturation and the impact of media literacy training on Jamaican children's food intake. Prof. Meeks has published widely in international research journals and has authored or edited several book chapters and technical reports, books, and monographs. She serves on the boards of several Jamaican, Caribbean, and international organizations, and has received several awards for excellence in research and public service.

Sage Arbor has worked across a broad biomedical spectrum, from drug design to clinical trial analysis, including AI development, project management of developers/analysts of globally distributed labs (PMP certified), electronic medical record data mining (SQL and NoSQL), Python/Pandas coding, data segmentation, 6σ improvement, pathway mapping, and computational drug design and synthesis. Having worked in multiple academic and corporate

positions ( Pfizer and Dupont), he is currently a senior informaticist at Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) leading the transition to greater AI language learning model (LLM) use via talks, AI project management and development, tutorials, as well as one-on-one training.

Tafline Arbor, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Anatomy Discipline Director at Wake Forest University School of Medicine's new campus in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Dr. Arbor has extensive experience in pre-clerkship medical education, anatomy and embryology instruction, and curriculum development. She is passionate about incorporating interactive and innovative methods in her teaching and building integrat-

ed, technologically sophisticated medical curricula. Dr. Arbor's research focuses on anatomical studies of modern humans and fossil primates and testing innovations in medical education. Dr. Arbor earned her BA from Wake Forest University and her MA from Southern Illinois University, USA. She was awarded Ph.D. in Anthropology at Washington University, USA.
