Geetam Tiwari, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus, at the TransportationResearch and Injury Prevention Centre at the Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. She completed her Master of Urban Planning and Policy and her doctoratein Transport Planning from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She hasreceived the degree of Doctor of Technology Honoris Causa from the ChalmersUniversity of Technology, Sweden, in 2012. Her research focus includes trafficand transport planning and traffic safety focusing on pedestrians, bicycles,bus systems, and highway safety. She is an editor-in-chief of the InternationalJournal of Injury Control and Safety Promotion since 2009. She is the chairperson of theBIS, SSD01(Bureau of Indian Standards, Service Sector Division) committee since2020.Mathew Varghese, MBBS, MS , is an orthopaedic surgeon at the St. Stephen’s Hospital, Delhi, since1990. He served as the director of St Stephen’s Hospital from 1999–2006. He hasbeen the executive committee member and governing council member, Christian MedicalCollege, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He holds the position of HonoraryDirector for Cure Club Foot International India Trust (CIIT), an organisationpreventing disability from clubfoot, one of the commonest orthopaedic birthdefects. He is scientific advisor to a Niti Aayog project on emergency care: “ACountry Level Assessment of Current Status of Emergency and Injury Care atSecondary and Tertiary Level Centres in India” since May 2019. He was awarded the “Vishishta ChkitsaRatan Award” by the Delhi Medical Association, 2018; Distinguished TeacherAward by the Association of National Board of Examination Institutions August2019; the Guildal Memorial Lecture by the Danish Orthopaedic Society in October2019.Kavi Bhalla, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences ofthe Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and affiliatedfaculty at the Harris School of Public Policy. His research aims todevelop transport systems that are safe, sustainable, and equitable, with acentral focus on road safetyin low- and middle-income countries. His recentwork has focused on the development of analytical tools for improving estimatesof the incidence of injuries in information-poor settings using the availabledata sources and the evaluation of road safety interventions. He co-led theInjury Expert Group of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Project. He isformally trained as a mechanical engineer and his Ph.D. (Cornell, 2001) thesisresearch focused on the mechanics of material failure, which he later appliedto the study of injury biomechanics and vehicle crashworthiness.
