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Physicians, scientists and health professionals contributing to medical research and the exchange of knowledge across disciplines.
The people behind the Society, and the work they share.
Contributions to public health
Three members whose work reaches well beyond the clinic: soil and food security, physical activity and prevention, and vaccination.
Rattan Lal
The Ohio State University
Rattan Lal received the 2020 World Food Prize for a career showing how soil health underpins food security and the climate. He is Distinguished University Professor of Soil Science at The Ohio State University, where he directs its Center for Carbon Management and Sequestration. He is a member of the Society’s Global Nutrition Alliance committee and has published six articles in the Medical Research Archives since 2024.
His articles in the journal
Abby King
Stanford University School of Medicine
Abby King co-chaired the scientific advisory committee behind the current Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans and is the David and Susan Heckerman Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health and of Medicine at Stanford. Her research concerns physical activity, healthy ageing and community-based prevention. She is a member of the Society’s Health Equity Committee.
Stanford profile
Enrique Chacón-Cruz
Think Vaccines · Health Equity and Immunization committees
Enrique Chacón-Cruz is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist, trained in Mexico City and at Eastern Virginia Medical School, with a master’s degree in vaccinology and drug development from the University of Siena. He founded Think Vaccines in Houston and edits its publication, Vaccines Beat. He is a member of the Society’s Health Equity and Immunization committees and wrote the journal’s 2025 review of fifty years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization.
Read the reviewExpertise across our community
Meet three members working in vaccine research, inherited disease and evidence-based health policy.
Sarah Gilbert
University of Oxford
Dame Sarah Gilbert is the Saïd Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute. Her research develops viral-vectored vaccines for influenza and emerging pathogens, and she led Oxford’s ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine programme during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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D. Holmes Morton
Central Pennsylvania Clinic
Pediatrician and geneticist D. Holmes Morton co-founded the Clinic for Special Children in 1989 and later the Central Pennsylvania Clinic. His community-based model combines clinical care and research for inherited disorders affecting Amish and Mennonite families; he received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2006. He remains in independent pediatric practice.
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Diana Zuckerman
National Center for Health Research
Diana Zuckerman is president of the National Center for Health Research, a nonprofit public-health think tank. Trained in psychology, epidemiology and public health, she focuses on the evidence behind medical products and health policy and frequently presents research findings to policymakers and regulators.
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Dale Alverson
University of New Mexico
Research
Charlotte Erlanson Albertsson
Lund University
Research
Rémy Guillevin
University of Poitiers
Research
Shivani Karre
Loma Linda University
Research
Peter Goadsby
King’s College London · NIHR Maudsley BRC
Research
Christian Rivera Medina
Universidad Ana G. Méndez
Research
Dale Alverson
University of New Mexico
Shivani Karre
Loma Linda University
Charlotte Erlanson Albertsson
Lund University
Peter Goadsby
King’s College London · NIHR Maudsley BRC
Ahmad Soolari
West Virginia University
Rivka Ofir
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Rémy Guillevin
University of Poitiers
Wisam Bukaita
Lawrence Technological University
Guillermo Zepeda Flores
Universidad de Chile
Santa Roza
Centro Universitário de Maceió - Alagoas
Christian Rivera Medina
Universidad Ana G. Méndez
Tiago Sales
Federal University of Ceará
Nadia Gomez
University of Florida, editor for Medical Research Archives
Alex Clark
Editorial Team, Medical Research Archives
Mehdi Rajabi
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
Warren W. Boling Jr.
Austin College
Dwight Culver
University of California
Michael J. Griffin
Midwestern University
Marieke van Engelenburg-van Lonkhuyzenin
Maastricht University
Franco Posa
Scientific Director at NeuroIntelligence
Ji Chen Bihl
Wright State University
Cuilan Li
Wuhan University
Benedetto Sacchetti
Italian National Institute of Health
Nandan Kumar Mondal
University of Louisville
John Buchanan
Queen Mary University of London
Meet the Health Equity Committee
The European Society of Medicine’s Health Equity Committee is committed to upholding healthcare as a fundamental human right through evidence-based strategies that eliminate health disparities.
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A Global Assessment of Health Disparities
Read the report
Natalia Neparidze
Yale School of Medicine
Abby King
Stanford University School of Medicine
Enrique Chacón-Cruz
Think Vaccines
Maria Nauside Pessoa da Silva
Centro Universitário Maurício de Nassau, Brazil
Dale C. Alverson
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Adewale Adebajo MBE
University of Sheffield School of Medicine
Illia Kolosov
Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University · University of Warmia and Mazury
An international
medical community
The Society brings together clinical practice, research and public health. Members work in hospitals, universities, ministries and foundations across more than 90 countries.
Their expertise is shared through the Society’s journal, its editorial board and the advisory committees of the Global Health Center.
Carnegie Mellon University · University of California
On publishing with the Society
Our members
A selection of the society's latest new members
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Carolina Klein
MAIA Institute
Arlene Mitchell
Global Child Nutrition Foundation
Arthur Siegel
McLean Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
Jennifer Hillman
Pennsylvania State University
Sophia Burns
University College London Hospital
Charles Fuschillo
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America
President and CEO · Former New York state senator
Mary Newport
Spring Hill Neonatology
Patrick Treacy
Ailesbury Clinics
Medical Director
Juliet Jacobsen
Harvard Medical School · Lund University
Ritchie Shoemaker
Center for Research on Biotoxin Associated Illnesses
Medical Director
Daniel Lucey
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Clinical Professor of MedicinePortrait credits
- Peter Goadsby — NIHR Maudsley BRC. Source
- Sarah Gilbert — ESCV 2021, via Wikimedia Commons. Source
- Rattan Lal — USDA photo by Lance Cheung; public domain. Source
- Charles Fuschillo — Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Source
- Patrick Treacy — Ailesbury Clinics. Source
- D. Holmes Morton — © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Richard Hertzler Photography. Source
- Daniel Lucey — Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Source
- Nadia Gomez — University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Source
- Warren W. Boling Jr. — Loma Linda University Health. Source
- Dwight Culver — UC Irvine Faculty Profile System. Source
- Michael J. Griffin — Marian University. Source
- Ji Chen Bihl — Wright State University. Source
- Nandan Kumar Mondal — Baylor College of Medicine. Source
- Juliet Jacobsen — Lund University research portal. Source
- Abby King — Stanford Medicine. Source
- Arlene Mitchell — Global Child Nutrition Foundation. Source
- Diana Zuckerman — National Center for Health Research. Source
- Shivani Karre — Loma Linda University Faculty Experts. Source
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