Geetam Tiwari, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus, at the Transportation
Research and Injury Prevention Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi. She completed her Master of Urban Planning and Policy and her doctorate
in Transport Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has
received the degree of Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa from the Chalmers
University of Technology, Sweden, in 2012. Her research focus includes traffic
and transport planning and traffic safety focusing on pedestrians, bicycles,
bus systems, and highway safety. She is an editor-in-chief of the International
Journal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion since 2009. She is the chairperson of the
BIS, SSD01(Bureau of Indian Standards, Service Sector Division) committee since
2020.
Mathew Varghese, MBBS, MS , is an orthopaedic surgeon at the St. Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi, since
1990. He served as the director of St Stephen’s Hospital from 1999–2006. He has
been the executive committee member and governing council member, Christian Medical
College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He holds the position of Honorary
Director for Cure Club Foot International India Trust (CIIT), an organisation
preventing disability from clubfoot, one of the commonest orthopaedic birth
defects. He is scientific advisor to a Niti Aayog project on emergency care: “A
Country Level Assessment of Current Status of Emergency and Injury Care at
Secondary and Tertiary Level Centres in India” since May 2019. He was awarded the “Vishishta Chkitsa
Ratan Award” by the Delhi Medical Association, 2018; Distinguished Teacher
Award by the Association of National Board of Examination Institutions August
2019; the Guildal Memorial Lecture by the Danish Orthopaedic Society in October
2019.
Kavi Bhalla, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences of
the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and affiliated
faculty at the Harris School of Public Policy. His research aims to
develop transport systems that are safe, sustainable, and equitable, with a
central focus on road safetyin low- and middle-income countries. His recent
work has focused on the development of analytical tools for improving estimates
of the incidence of injuries in information-poor settings using the available
data sources and the evaluation of road safety interventions. He co-led the
Injury Expert Group of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Project. He is
formally trained as a mechanical engineer and his Ph.D. (Cornell, 2001) thesis
research focused on the mechanics of material failure, which he later applied
to the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness.