Dr. (Professor) Rajiv Tandon is Technical Director of PATH India, Independent Director of Bio Valley Incubation Council (a not-for-profit state-owned company), and Visiting Professor (Public Health and Pediatrics) at KLE Academy of Higher Education and Research. He is also Technical Advisor Cadre at the Rotary Foundation for Maternal and Child Health, and on the Governing Body of the Institute of Applied Statistics and Development Studies.

Prof. Harshpal Singh Sachdev (MD, FIAP, FAMS, FRCPCH) is Senior Consultant in Pediatrics and Clinical Epidemiology at Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science and Research, New Delhi; Honorary Senior Research Associate, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK; Adjunct Professor, St. John’s Research Institute, Bangalore and Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad; and Visiting Professor, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, Southampton. He has served as Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College; National President, Indian Academy of Pediatrics; Secretary, Nutrition Society of India; Regional Advisor, Asian Pacific Pediatric Association; and Editor-in-Chief of Indian Pediatrics. He has 302 indexed publications and has edited sixteen books and contributed to thirty-seven reports. He has been honored with Fellowships from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London), National Academy of Medical Sciences and Indian Academy of Pediatrics. Prof. Sachdev is a National Research Awards recipient including from the Indian Council of Medical Research. He provides services in various advisory capacities to the Government of India (Niti Aayog, Ministries of Health and Family Welfare, and Women and Child Development, Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Biotechnology, and Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) and different national and international organizations including the World Health Organization and World Bank. He has been associated with nearly 50 research grants from national and international funding agencies. His current research interests include developmental origins of adult disease, nutrition in children, adolescents and mothers in Low and Middle-Income Countries, and systematic reviews to guide policy and practice.

Dr Bharati Kulkarni is Senior Grade Deputy Director at National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, India. Her research focuses on ways to improve the nutritional status of vulnerable population groups, especially women and children. She has carried out studies on public health nutrition problems including management of severe acute malnutrition in children, body composition, agriculture-nutrition linkages, and agricultural interventions to improve nutritional status of women and children. She completed her MBBS and Diploma in Child Health from Pune University, Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and PhD from Queensland University of Technology, Australia.