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Dr. Jessica Jackson is the Vice President of Alliance Development at Mental Health America. With over a decade of experience across startups, hospitals, nonprofits and the United Nations., Dr. Jackson has consistently driven initiatives that democratize access to quality mental healthcare. A former assistant professor of psychiatry, Dr. Jackson now applies her academic rigor to real-world challenges. Her research focuses on dismantling barriers to treatment for underserved populations, while her leadership roles span from product design to go-to-market strategy for digital health platform. She currently serves as an appointed chair of the American Psychological Association Mental Health Technology Advisory Committee. She is also an appointed member of the FDA’s inaugural Digital Health Advisory committee.

Lance A. Waller, Ph.D. is a Professor and former Chair in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, a co-chair of National Academies’ Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, and a member of the U.S. Census Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr. Waller is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His research involves the development of statistical methods for geographic data including applications in environmental justice, epidemiology, disease surveillance, and disease ecology. His research appears in biostatistical, statistical, environmental health, and ecology journals and in the textbook Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data (2004, Wiley).

Milind Tambe is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research on Computation and Society at Harvard University; concurrently, he is also Principal Scientist and Director for “AI for Social Good” at Google Deepmind. Prof. Tambe and his team have developed pioneering AI systems that deliver real-world impact in public health (e.g., maternal and child health), public safety, and wildlife conservation. He is recipient of the AAAI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, AAAI Feigenbaum Prize, IJCAI John McCarthy Award, AAAI Robert S. Engelmore Memorial Lecture Award, AAMAS ACM Autonomous Agents Research Award, INFORMS Wagner prize for excellence in Operations Research practice, Military Operations Research Society Rist Prize, Columbus Fellowship Foundation Homeland security award and commendations and certificates of appreciation from the US Coast Guard, the Federal Air Marshals Service and airport police at the city of Los Angeles. He is a fellow of AAAI and ACM.

Sema Sgaier, Ph.D., is the CEO and Co-Founder of Surgo Health, a behavioral AI company dedicated to improving health outcomes by deeply understanding human behavior. By integrating behavioral science and AI, Surgos’s proprietary real-world data (RWD) platforms, BehavioralPulse™ and Mosaic™, reveal individual beliefs, desires, and barriers to health engagement. Dr. Sgaier has close to 20 years of experience in healthcare. Prior to Surgo Health, she co-founded and led Surgo Foundation and Surgo Ventures, developing analytic products solving health problems with precision. Dr. Sgaier held several roles at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, bringing innovations in data, consumer insights, and product introduction into large-scale health programs globally. She has over 60 publications and is a frequent OpEd contributor to the New York Times and prestigious media outlets. She was an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and an Affiliate Assistant Professor, Global Health at the University of Washington. Sema completed her fellowship in Genomics at Harvard University, Ph.D. in Neuroscience from New York University, and M.A. in Neuroscience from Brown University. She is a Board Member of the United States of Care and a Women’s Forum for Economy and Society Rising Talent.