Dr Edmund Ricci is Emeritus Professor of Sociology in Public Health and founding Director of the Institute for Evaluation in Public Health, both based in the University of Pittsburgh's, Graduate School of Public Health. He is an internationally recognized evaluation scientist who has designed and guided globally more than 300 program and policy oriented studies, including those designed to improve the medical and public health response to disasters. He currently serves as a member of the executive committee of the international Task Force on Quality Control of Disaster Management.
Ernesto A. Pretto, Jr. M.D., M.P.H. (Epidemiology) is Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Pretto is a Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiologists with Special Qualifications in Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Pretto's research has covered a wide range of fields in Medicine and Public Health. He has conducted post disaster field surveys in earthquakes in Armenia (1988), Costa Rica (1991), Turkey (1992), California (1994), and Japan (1995), during the war in Sarajevo, Bosnia (1993), and after the devastating earthquake in Haiti (2010).
Knut Ole Sundnes MD, DiPH. Professor, Centre for Risk Management and Societal Safety at the University of Stavanger and Senior Scientist, Intervention Center, Oslo University Hospital. Dr. Sundnes is a certified specialist of anaesthesia, intensive care medicine and prehospital medicine. He was Head of Anaesthesia, Norwegian Armed Forces Medical Services (1996-2016). He was instrumental to restore the specialty of anaesthesia to Afghanistan (2006-2013). He served as President of the World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine from 2001-2005. He is co-editor and co-author of two books on Disaster Research in the Utstein Style and is highly published in the fields of disaster medicine, emergency medicine and anaesthesiology.