Andrew is a Professor of Obstetrics and Head of Department of Women & Children’s Health at King’s College London. He specialises in clinical trials in antenatal and intrapartum care including interventions to predict and prevent preterm birth, pre-eclampsia, and reduce global maternal and perinatal mortality. He has an active clinical role in management of high-risk pregnancies, including a specialist award winning preterm birth surveillance clinic. He is the inventor of the CRADLE VSA device, a recipient of the international 2017 Newton Prize for excellence in research and innovation, and a member of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Chi Ying Lam is a researcher-practitioner working at the intersection of music education, community music, and healthcare. Her research takes an evidence-informed, interdisciplinary approach to examining how music supports wellbeing, social inclusion, and community development, particularly with migrant and marginalised communities. Chi Ying is a Lecturer in Community Music and Social Justice at the University of Southampton and Director of the Southampton Centre for Music Education and Social Justice. She is also a Neurologic Music Therapy Allied Professional (NMTAP) and a member of the UK Young Academy.

Cristina is a Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. A nurse, midwife and public health practitioner, she has led maternal, child and adolescent health research, with expertise in clinical trials of complex interventions and innovations, implementation science, health systems and policy, systematic reviews, data science and mixed-methods research to improve health and wellbeing and reduce inequities in the UK and globally. Her collaborative work has informed national and international guidelines and policy. She is also a co-founder of the UK Chagas Hub and a Google Higher Ed Faculty AI Fellow.

Hawa Camara is a global health researcher, and implementation scientist committed to advancing women’s health globally. Currently, she is a postdoctoral Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) where she explores how cervical cancer prevention innovations, such as HPV self-sampling and point-of-care diagnostics, can be integrated and sustained in limited resource settings. She holds a PhD in Medicine from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). She also brings over a decade of public health experience across Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the U.S. She aspires to positively change people’s lives as she accompanies them in their professional and personal journey.

Iris Blom is a medical doctor, climate-health researcher and policy expert. She recently completed her PhD at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focusing on greenhouse gas mitigation in healthcare systems and its intersection with climate change adaptation, with a specific focus on Kenya. A Schwarzman Scholar with a master’s in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, she brings a transdisciplinary lens to climate and health. Iris currently serves as Penholder of the Pan-European Commission on Climate and Health at WHO Europe, Working Group Co-Chair for the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Healthcare, and Research Consultant for LSHTM’s Pathfinder Initiative.

Jane Sandall is Professor of Social Science and Women’s Health in the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. Her multidisciplinary research focuses on the impact of innovative health technologies, maternity care organisation and service delivery on improving experiences, care and outcomes for women and babies. She brings methodological expertise in systematic reviews, hybrid implementation methodology and implementation science to research on complex interventions. She has received a CBE for services to women’s health, NIHR Senior Investigator awards and King’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2024.

Loki is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Heriot-Watt University working in the experimental medicine domain of the U-Care project in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. Her work integrates advanced manufacturing, biomedical engineering, and clinical application, with a focus on translating laser-based technologies into impactful diagnostic and surgical tools.

In her current role, Loki leads the fabrication of micro-optical components using two-photon polymerisation (2PP) to enable imaging of far-field lung cavities, supporting improved access to previously unexplored regions of the lung. Alongside this, she is developing novel tissue-sampling tools using advanced laser-based fabrication techniques to enable high-precision, repeatable biopsy procedures.

Loki received her doctorate in 2024 from Heriot-Watt University, where she worked on an EPSRC-funded adventurous manufacturing project focused on laser-based fabrication of shape memory alloys for minimally invasive surgery. Her research demonstrated new manufacturing pathways for NiTi-based micro-scale components using laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT). She previously completed a joint master’s degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Aix-Marseille University, specialising in photonic materials and devices.

Beyond research, Loki is a committed STEM ambassador and mental health advocate. She is passionate about inclusive leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration, and building supportive research cultures.

Lucy is a midwife research fellow at King’s College London with extensive experience working with children, young people and families in Sierra Leone and the UK. She spent several years in Sierra Leone working with war-affected children and, following a 2017 Wellbeing of Women fellowship exploring causes of high adolescent maternal mortality, co-founded 2YoungLives with Mangenda Kamara. Lucy has also worked as a parent-and-child foster carer and ‘hub home carer’ within the award-winning Mockingbird family hub model, and evaluated training and support needs of parent-and-child foster carers, developing resources and a national practitioner network.

Nathasia is a postdoctoral researcher at the UK Dementia Research Institute at University College London and an Alzheimer’s Research UK Fellow. She studies how toxic tau protein disrupts brain cell communication in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. A dedicated advocate for health equity, she leads dementia-focused outreach and public engagement with Black communities across the UK, earning her the 2025 UK DRI Engagement Award. She co-founded Visibility STEM Africa to amplify African voices in STEM and is a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Young Academy of Sciences, bridging the gap between laboratory science and societal impact.

Paul is a now an Emeritus Reader in Medical Statistics at King’s College London, where he has worked in public health science and maternal and children’ health research since 1996. He moved into medical research after a career teaching mathematics and statistics and gained an MSc in Medical Statistics from LSHTM. He has extensive expertise in study design, sample size calculation, diagnostic and screening methods, growth data and measurement, and statistical analysis of maternal and pregnancy outcomes, including postpartum haemorrhage, preterm birth, pre-eclampsia and fetal growth.