Dr. Sharif’s areas of interest are at the interface of Health Services Research and Computer Simulation Modeling. He is broadly interested in development of data-driven computational tools to aid in health-policy decision making for chronic diseases. He completed his PhD at School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia in 2014 and worked at Statistics Canada-Health Analysis Division, Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute and Community Health Sciences Department at University of Calgary during his postdoctoral years from 2014 to 2017.

"Dr. Paola Mattarelli is researcher at University of Bologna, Italy. She has 30-years’ experience on the taxonomy, functional properties and microbial ecology of Bifidobacteriaceae, especially in human, primates and other animal host interactions; other fields of interests are traditional fermented food and interaction between natural substances and microbiota. She is a member of the ""Subcommittee on Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus and related organisms"" (International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology of the IUMS)."

"He is best known for developing the mirror test, also called the mirror self-recognition test, or MSR, in 1970, which gauges self-awareness of animals. In 1975, Gallup moved to the University at Albany. During his tenure at Tulane, Gallup also developed a research interest in tonic immobility, or ""animal hypnosis,"" which he continued at the University at Albany. His later work on animal behavior focused on ethological approaches to the study of animal behavior under laboratory conditions, which he pursued with Susan Suarez in the 1980s. Since the 1990s, Gallup has researched human evolutionary psychology exclusively. Gallup's article entitled ""Does Semen Have Antidepressant Properties?""[1] attracted the attention of the media[2] when it was published in 2002. Gallup commented, ""I want to make it clear that we are not advocating that people abstain from using condoms. Clearly, an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease would more than offset any advantageous psychological effects of semen"