David Etkin is a Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management at York University. Previously, he worked for Environment Canada from 1977 - 2005.  During his career, he has been a weather forecaster in Nova Scotia and Ontario, taught meteorology to new forecasters, and done applied research in the Arctic and Industrial Climatology Divisions of the Canadian Climate Centre.  In 1993 he joined the Adaptation and Impacts Research Group of the Meteorological Service of Canada, specialising in the interdisciplinary study of natural hazards and disasters, and climate change. From 1996 - 2005 he worked at the University of Toronto with the Institute for Environmental Studies doing research on natural hazards and disasters.  He has contributed to several national and international natural hazard projects including the 2nd U.S. national assessment of natural hazards, the IPCC, was Principal Investigator of the Canadian National Assessment of Natural Hazards and is Past President of the Canadian Risk and Hazards Network. His current areas of research are disaster risk assessment and disaster ethics. He has 90 publications including two textbooks and 6 edited volumes.

Austin Dalgo, MD, MA is a med-peds paediatric palliative care physician at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare System in Memphis, TN. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Birmingham, AL. He completed his Med-Peds residency and Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at UTHSC in Memphis, TN. He also completed his masters in Bioethics and Health Policy from Loyola University in Chicago. Dr. Dalgo is the director for the Center for Bioethics and Health Equity at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and co-medical director of the Stress and Wellness Clinic of Memphis.  He enjoys spending time with his family and riding his bike.

Matti Häyry is Professor of Philosophy of Management at the Aalto University School of Business. Before taking on his current position in 2013, he held professorships at the Universities of Manchester, Central Lancashire, and Eastern Finland. His research topics have ranged from the history and theory of moral and political philosophy to applied ethics, especially bioethics. He has misspent the last two years in futile yet citation-attracting contributions on the COVID-19 pandemic, but managed in summer 2021 to write a small book on The Roles of Justice in Bioethics, which is due to appear in the Cambridge Elements (Cambridge University Press) series later this year. The opening line of the book is: “The role of justice in bioethics is to perpetuate capitalist hegemony.” His presentation may contain traces of that newly-found foolhardy approach.

Andrea Adams, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A., is an Assistant Professor in the Crime, Justice and Security Program at the University of the District of Columbia.  Andrea's research agenda and recent publications focus on ethics in emergency management, data ethics, and gender-based violence. Andrea teaches ethics in both the Administration of Justice B.A. program and the Homeland Security Master’s program. Andrea led the development of a Course Module on The Ethics of Access and Equity in Emergency Management for FEMA’s Higher Education Group. Andrea is a licensed attorney with 25+ years of business experience in labor, employment, and business law.

Ross Upshur BA (Hons.), MA, MD, MSc, MCFP, FRCPC, FCAHS is currently the Dalla Lana Chair in Clinical Public Health and Head of the Division of Clinical Public Health at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Scientific Director, Bridgepoint Collaboratory for Research and Innovation and Associate Director of the Lunenfeld Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health. At the University of Toronto, he is a Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Department of Family and Community Medicine, affiliate member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Member of the Centre for Environment and Adjunct Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences. He is a Staff Physician at Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, Sinai Health. During COVID-19 he has served as the co-Chair of the WHO Ethics and COVID-19 Working group and is a member of the WHO ACTA Ethics and Governance Working Group.  He is an elected Fellow of the Hastings Center and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

Peter Timmerman is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He has been working on environmental issues for many years, beginning with emergency and risk research, early work on climate change (his monograph, Vulnerability, Resilience and the Collapse of Society was published in 1981), coastal zone management and global change. He was the co-chair for the Canadian NGO Earth Charter process for the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. He continues as a public activist and author on topics such as genetic manipulation, disaster ethics, and nuclear waste management. He now works primarily on environmental philosophy and ethics, including religion and ecology in the context of the emerging Anthropocene, with a special research focus on Buddhism and environmental activism in South and Southeast Asia. In the area of Ecological Economics, he is currently working on the rise of the language and metaphors of the self, progress, growth, and development in the 18th century and after, and recently co-edited Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene for Peter Timmerman is a Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. He has been working on environmental issues for many years, beginning with emergency and risk research, early work on climate change (his monograph, Vulnerability, Resilience and the Collapse of Society was published in 1981), coastal zone management and global change.

Andreas Alois Reis (PD, MD, MSc) is the Co-Lead of the Health Ethics & Governance Unit in the Research for Health Department of the Division of the Chief Scientist at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. After medical studies and practice in internal medicine in Germany, France and Chile he pursued studies in health economics and obtained a postgraduate degree in biomedical ethics. His main area of work is public health ethics, with a focus on ethical aspects of infectious diseases and outbreaks of emerging pathogens. Other topics include the ethics of public health surveillance, health research, and artificial intelligence. He has lectured and organized trainings for WHO in more than 50 countries and is serving on the editorial boards of Public Health Ethics and Monash Bioethics Review. He has published widely and is the co-editor of four books on bioethics and public health ethics.

Dr. Euzebiusz (Zeb) Jamrozik is a practicing internal medicine physician and fellow in ethics and infectious diseases at Ethox and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford. He is head of the Monash-WHO Collaborating Centre for Bioethics at the Monash Bioethics Centre. Trained in medicine, epidemiology, and philosophy, Dr. Jamrozik's academic work focuses on infectious disease ethics. He is the author of numerous publications on ethical issues in public health and clinical research, and he has been a member of multiple WHO Ethics Working Groups, including work on COVID-19 human challenge studies.

Dr. Sandy Maxwell Smith is Professor and Program Coordinator of Emergency Management and the EMHS Graduate Program Director at Arkansas Tech University (ATU). Sandy received her BSN from Duke University, her MSN from the University of Central Arkansas with an emphasis in Community Health, and her PhD in nursing from Loyola University Chicago. Her dissertation, The Lived Experience of Doing the Right Thing: A Parse Method Study, allowed her to explore ethics from an individual’s perspective. Sandy has been teaching college students since 1999 and began teaching emergency management courses in 2011. She is passionate about preparing Emergency Management students for the workforce of the future having been a co-author of The Next Generation Core Competencies for Emergency Management Professionals: Handbook of Behavioral Anchors and Key Actions for Measurements. As well, she is committed to working for the professionalization of the discipline of emergency management. Sandy is the Ethics SIG (Special Interest Group) co-lead for the FEMA Higher Education Program; which has drafted the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct for Emergency Management Professionals. Sandy serves as the Assessor Manager and Secretary of the Council for the Accreditation of Emergency Management & Homeland Security Education and is a Board Trustee for the Methodist LeBonheur Healthcare System in Memphis, TN, where she is the chair of the Quality Committee for the Healthcare System. Additionally, Sandy was appointed in October as a member of the Jocelyn Elders School of Allied and Public Health Advisory Board at Philander Smith College (a HBCU).

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