Anthony Masys is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security. A former senior Air Force Officer, Dr Masys has a BSc in Physics and MSc in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a PhD from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series. He is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His recent books include:· Opening the Black Box of Human Error · Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security. Springer Publishing · Disaster Management- Enabling Resilience. Springer Publishing · Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research for managing complexity. Springer Publishing · Exploring the Security Landscape- non-traditional security challenges. Springer Publishing. · Disaster Forensics: understanding root cause and complexity causality. Springer Publishing · Asia/Pacific Security challenges: managing black swans and persistent threats. Springer Publishing· Security by Design (in press)Ricardo Izurieta received his MD from the Central University of Ecuador and after graduation, carried out his postdoctoral training in Public Health and Tropical Diseases. In 1991, he faced the cholera epidemic that spread through Latin American countries as National Director of the Cholera Control Program in the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador. In 1997, he was appointed Chief of the Department of Epidemiology and Director of The Vaccine Center of the Armed Forces of Ecuador. During his studies, he has been a USAID Thomas Jefferson Fellow, a PAHO Research Fellow, a Gorgas Memorial Institute Fellow, and a FUNDACYT Fellow. In 2003, he was elected Vice President of the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine. To date, he still holds this appointment. Ricardo Izurieta is currently the director of the Donald Price Parasitology Center. In addition, he is a consultant for WASTE International from the Netherlands and for the Stockholm Environment Institute from Sweden.Miguel Reina Ortiz is Asst. Prof. GlobalCommunicableDiseases andGlobalHealthPractice at the University of South Florida.Research and analysis in a range of health issues in a global context including social and structural determinants of communicable diseasesaswellasmalariaepidemiology, treatmentand transmission patterns, using advanced statistical and geospatial analyses. The research approaches used have spannedquantitativeandqualitativeaswellas GIS-basedspatialdataanalysis.Additionally,he has been in charge of coordinating/supervising activitiesaswellas collaboratingwith interdisciplinaryteamsat internationallevel.
