During his distinguished career, Richard W. M. Visser D.C. MPH,Ph.D. has focused on the pandemic of childhood obesity among various populations, working in consultation with other international experts. He studied the problem and implemented solutions from many perspectives: as a clinical researcher, academic and educator, activist and politician, entrepreneur, concerned citizen and parent. His work has made vital contributions to a greater understanding of the biological, sociological, and psychological factors surrounding childhood obesity. Having written numerous articles on the subject for professional journals, he has twice presented papers in Geneva at the congress hosted by the International Association of the Study of Obesity, and he’s currently collaborating with the Department of Public and Occupational Health in the Netherlands on a proposal for combating the disease throughout the Caribbean. Early in 2008, he was appointed by the Government of Aruba to head the Obesity Task Force, and a year later, he began his four- year term as Aruba’s Minister of Health, and Sport. Today Dr. Visser continues his innovative approach to healthcare by converging the exponential technological development going on right now with never before seen global connectivity. In so doing empower Nations, by sourcing their most valuable health assets and magnifying their presence through technological innovation, creating never before seen access to quality care and information from within.

Healthcare, Childhood Obesity

Prof Fatemeh Rabiee is a professor in Public Health Promotion and a registered Public Health Nutritionist with extensive experience of teaching, research, research supervision in UK, Netherlands & countries of economic transition. She has initiated, designed, managed and implemented a number of applied research projects in the broad area of health and social care. Currently she is working as a Project Lead on the Make it Count Project which deals with Retrospective analysis of the effectiveness of the Childhood obesity intervention programme in Walsall, West Midlands. She is an Editorial Board Member of Leading Journals like International Journal of Food, Nutrition and Public Health, Egyptian Journal of Cardiovascular disease, Iranian journal of Health Promotion Perspective (HPP), Athens Journal of Health etc. Active member of Nutrition Society in UK and contributes regularly to professional development programmes of the Nutrition Society. Dr. Rabiee was nominated twice for Extra Miles Award as an inspiring teacher during the last two academic years.

Health and social policy, health inequalities, mental health promotion, public health nutrition and evaluation of health & social care projects

Dr. Abdelfettah is the Director of the human nutrition research unit at the University Hassan II, FSBM Casablanca. Morocco. He received his PhD in bio-industry from the University of Nancy France in 1988 and PhD in Human Nutrition in 2008 from the Hassan University 2 Casablanca Morocco. He is also the Head of Moroccan Action on Salt and Health (MASH). He has co-founded the Earth and Humanism Association Morocco: Agroecology at the service of health. Dr. Abdelfettah is currently serving as the Vice President of the Moroccan Society of Nutrition and the Association All With Heart for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases. He has also served as the President of Danone Institute Morocco and is a member of the French Society of Nutrition. Dr. Abdelfettah is the adviser on Nutrition for the Moroccan Ministry of Health and he is also the temporary adviser of Nutrition for the WHO EMRO since 2013.

Human Nutrition, Obesity

Dr. Jay-lin Jane is a Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor, Emeritus in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University. Dr. Jane received her BS degree from National Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan, MS degree from Texas Woman’s University, and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Iowa State University. Dr. Jane’s primary research interests are in starch structures, properties, applications, effects of resistant starch on health, and biopolymers. She has published 215 referred publications and 10 patents, with 10,000 citations and an h-index 53. She received numerous awards, including the Alsberg-French-Schoch Award, the highest award for starch research, and a Fellow Award from the American Association of Cereal Chemists, International, the Merit of Science Award from the Japanese Applied Glycoscience Association, and the Distinguished Faculty Award from Iowa State University.

Starch structures, properties, applications, effects of resistant starch on health, and biopolymers

Prof. Dr/ Sahar Al-Okbi obtained her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Cairo Univ. Egypt. She is the head of Food Analysis, Therapeutic Diets and Dietary Regimen Unit, National Research Centre. She has published 108 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as reviewer in different international Journals. Awarded 3 National and one international prizes.

Biochemistry, Nutrition, Functional food, Nutraceuticals