Professor Bhutta is the inaugural Chair of ENT Surgery and Professor of Sustainable Healthcare at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. He has a longstanding interest in environmental and labour rights harms caused by medical supply chains. He was recently appointed as the Director of a new national academic centre to decarbonize the health service in the UK. In 2024 he was awarded the President's Medal of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.

Dr. Mariia Dolynska, MD, PhD, is the Head of the TB Department at O.O. Bogomolets National Medical University and the Medical Director of the non-governmental organization Infection Control in Ukraine. She is an EUCIC/ESCMID-certified Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) specialist with more than 10 years of experience in implementing IPC programs and addressing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in healthcare facilities. Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, she has led a team supporting the implementation of IPC programs in more than 150 healthcare facilities, including those located in frontline areas.

Claire is a graduate of the University of Glasgow (infection prevention diploma and masters in travel medicine), and was awarded a doctorate for work in infection prevention, water, sanitation and hygiene and patient safety from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2023, where she still functions as a subject matter expert on their shaping IPC research group. She is an award winner and creator of globally used resources and, following clinical and national positions, has worked passionately at global level since 2008 with the World Health Organization among others. She has been Director of S3 Global Health consulting since 2012 and is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow).

Dominique L. Monnet is an Associate Professor at the Centre for New Antibacterial Strategies (CANS) at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. In June 2025, he retired from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), where he had been heading the Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare-Associated Infections Section (or Programme) since October 2007. He holds a Doctorate in Pharmacy and a PhD (microbiology) from University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in France. He worked in various hospitals in Lyon, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States, and at Statens Serum Institut in Denmark. Since 1993, his research has focused on antimicrobial resistance, antimicrobial consumption and the relationships between antimicrobial consumption, infection prevention and control, and antimicrobial resistance.

Julie Storr is a global leader in infection prevention and control (IPC), patient safety and quality improvement. From developing the world's first national hand hygiene campaign to helping write WHO guidance used across the globe, her work has influenced healthcare systems on every continent. Today she is known for challenging the profession to look beyond compliance and remember the person at the centre of care. Her work explores the intersection of IPC, patient safety, compassion and leadership and what it means to make healthcare not only safer, but more human. Julie is a past president of the Infection Prevention Society of the UK and Ireland.

Dr. Ermira Tartari is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Malta. She holds a PhD in Global Health from the University of Geneva. She is an IPC consultant for the World Health Organization. Ermira is an Executive Committee Member of the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Study Group for Nosocomial Infection (ESGNI) and a member of the European Committee on Infection Control (EUCIC) advisory board. She is passionate about all aspects of evidence-based infection prevention to advance the science in IPC and ultimately ensure patient safety and quality of healthcare services.

Dr. Arkadii Vodianyk is Head of the Service Delivery Unit at the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in Ukraine. He oversees programmes related to infection prevention and control (IPC), antimicrobial resistance (AMR), primary health care, health workforce, nursing and service delivery. Dr. Vodianyk holds a medical degree from Bogomolets National Medical University, a Master of Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and a PhD in Microbiology. He is a certified specialist in IPC and recognized as Advanced Leader in Infection Prevention and Control (AL-CIP) by CBIC/APIC. For the last decade, he has worked on the development and implementation of national IPC and AMR programmes in Ukraine, including surveillance, capacity building, programme assessments, and healthcare-associated infection prevention.