Jeffrey V. Lazarus (Ph.D., MIH, MA) is a Member of the EASL Policy and Public Health Committee. He holds positions as an associate research professor at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clínic, where he leads the health systems research team, as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Spain and as a senior scholar at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Policy in New York City. His decade-long career as health systems, HIV, and viral hepatitis expert at WHO Europe was followed by three years (2009-2012) as a senior specialist at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, three years as director of Health Systems Global (2012-15) then board chair of the foundation AFEW International (2015-18). Prof Lazarus is now Vice-Chairman of the board of the EASL International Liver Foundation, where he developed the micro-elimination approach to HCV elimination. He is also a member of the INHSU international education committee and co-chair of the HIV Outcomes Beyond Viral Suppression coalition. He is the author of more than 300 publications and his current scientific work includes leading the Hep C Free Baleares, HBV COMSAVA, and Copenhagen T'n'T studies, and the Global COVID-19 consensus statement on ending the pandemic. He is a core member of The Lancet GastroHep Commission on Viral Hepatitis, a co-author of the Lancet COVID-19 commission and a commissioner of the EASL-Lancet European Liver Commission and The Lancet-IAPAC HIV Commission. At AME/VE he is chair of the NAFLD models of care workshop, on the organizing committee of COLDA, and on the scientific committee of IVHEM.

Dr Kremlin Wickramasinghe is acting Head of the WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD Office) and Regional Adviser for Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. Prior to this position, he worked as a technical officer on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCD) Risk Factors, since 2017 in the same office. Before joining WHO, he was the co-director of the WHO Collaborating Centre on Population Approaches to NCD Prevention at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. He co-edited the text book “An Introduction to Population-level Prevention of Non-Communicable Diseases” published by the Oxford University Press. He has a special interest in multisectoral responses to health promotion, quantifying the outcome of health policies and implementation research. Kremlin graduated as a medical doctor with MBBS from the University of Colombo. He holds an MSc in Global Health Science and a DPhil (PhD) in Public Health from the University of Oxford.