Professor Champion Nyoni is a distinguished health professions education expert, currently serving at the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, where he leads the Health Workforce Education and Training portfolio.

With extensive experience across multiple sub-Saharan African countries, Champion has been instrumental in advancing health professions education, particularly in low-resource settings. His work focuses on faculty development, curriculum innovation, and institutional capacity-building, championing reforms such as competency-based education to meet the region’s health workforce needs.

Champion’s research explores strategies to develop a competent, community-oriented health workforce that can address the pressing health challenges in underserved regions.

Currently, he spearheads a transformative initiative at the WHO Regional Office for Africa aimed at re-imagining health professions education across the African region.

His contributions have earned global recognition, including accolades from Sigma and the Southern African Association of Health Educationalists, where he was honored as a Distinguished Educator.

Champion’s career reflects his unwavering commitment to shaping equitable and impactful health education systems that resonate with the needs of low-resource communities.

Professor Evelyn Finnema started 35 years ago as a bachelor nurse and health scientist. After graduating, she has worked in all fields of healthcare and in care, education, research and management in various positions.

Evelyn is a full professor of Nursing Science and Education at the University Medical Center Groningen/ University of Groningen. The research results contribute to the quality of life of frail persons and improve and support professional activities in this context.

Her research is characterised by interprofessional and cross-border thinking, connecting many partners in the field, and educational and knowledge institutions, and embedding research results in sustainable, practical solutions.

Her research themes are frailty research, person-centred care and professional development (education and training) of nurses. Currently, twenty PhD’s are working on their PhD within the research program of Nursing Science and Education.

In addition to research, Evelyn pays much attention to education. She is a member of national and international committees aimed at improving healthcare and nursing education.

In addition, since May 2021, she has been the Governmental Chief Nursing Officer at the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport. In this role, she advises the ministers and represents the Netherlands in the WHO Euro-nursing hub.

Associate Professor Adam Rodman is a general internist and medical educator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.

He is the Director of AI Programs for the Carl J. Shapiro Center for Education and Research, and he leads the task force for integration of AI into the medical school curriculum. He is also an associate editor at NEJM AI.

His research focuses on medical education, clinical reasoning, integration of digital technologies, and human-computer interaction, especially with AI. His first book is entitled “Short Cuts: Medicine,” and he is the host of the American College of Physicians podcast Bedside Rounds.

Adam completed his residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR, and his fellowship in global health at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center while practicing in Molepolole, Botswana. He lives in Boston with his wife and two young sons.