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	Professor Sander Greenland, University of California, Los Angeles, USA Sander Greenland is Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health, and Professor of Statistics, UCLA College of Letters and Science. Professor Greenland has been a leading contributor to epidemiologic statistics, theory, and methods for over three decades. His major research contributions have been in assessment of selection bias, misclassification, and confounding effects in epidemiologic research, and in critical evaluation of statistical methods for observational studies. He has authored or co-authored hundreds of publications, including over 300 articles in peer-reviewed epidemiologic, statistics, and medical journals, and the textbook Modern Epidemiology (with Kenneth Rothman). He serves an associate editor for Statistics in Medicine, Epidemiology, and the European Journal of Epidemiology, is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, is a Fellow and Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, and is a member of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the American Statistical Association, and the Biometric Society. Professor Greenland received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley, followed by Master's and Doctoral degrees in Public Health and Epidemiology from the University of California at Los Angeles. Since that time he has held professorial appointments in Biostatistics at Harvard University and The University of Sydney, and has been an invited speaker at universities and conferences throughout the world.
	Professor Stephen Kunitz, University of Rochester Medical Center, New York, USA Stephen Kunitz received a B.A. from Yale in 1960 and an M.D. from the University of Rochester in 1964. After an internship in internal medicine, he spent two years as a medical officer at the Indian Health Service hospital in Tuba City, Arizona, on the western end of the Navajo Reservation. It was there that he began working with a medical anthropologist, Jerrold E. Levy, on problems related to alcohol misuse and deviant behaviour. Professor Kunitz received an M.A. in the history of science and medicine in 1968 and a Ph.D. in sociology in 1970, both from Yale. His dissertation was based upon continuing fieldwork among Navajo and Hopi Indians. His research has been on several related topics perhaps best described as the sociology of medical knowledge and the history of medicine, and the relationship between social change and morbidity and mortality. In the first area, he has done work on changing ideas of disease causality and classification in medicine and public health, and on the social determinants of differing concepts of disease. In the second, he has done work on the causes of mortality decline and contemporary patterns of mortality in Europe and the United States, the impact of Europeans on the health of non-Europeans, and numerous field studies among American Indians on changing disease patterns and on the causes and consequences of alcohol use and abuse. Professor Kunitz is currently Professor emeritus of Social & Behavioural Medicine in the Department of Community & Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, New York, USA and Clinical Professor in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
	Professor John Langley, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand John Langley has been involved in injury prevention research since 1978. He has been the Director of the Injury Prevention Research Unit (IPRU), Dunedin, New Zealand since its inception in 1990. He has undertaken research dealing with a wide range of prevention issues. Recent work has focused on alcohol related harm, young drivers, disability following injury, self harm, and injury outcome indicators. He has published over 230 peer review research papers, served for several years as Deputy Editor of Injury Prevention, and in 2004 received the International Distinguished Career Award from Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association.
	Professor David Skegg Professor David Skegg has been involved in epidemiological research since 1973, when he went to work with Sir Richard Doll at the University of Oxford. He returned to take up the Chair of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago in 1980. Since 2004 he has been the Vice-Chancellor. David Skegg’s research has mostly focused on cancer causes and control, contraceptive and drug safety, and reproductive health. He is a former Chair of the Public Health Commission and of the Health Research Council. Since 1984 he has been involved with the WHO Special Programme of Research in Human Reproduction, and he is currently a member of its Scientific and Technical Advisory Group.