Roberto Beneduce, PhD, MD, is Professor of Medical and Psychological Anthropology at the University of Turin, and founder of the Frantz Fanon Center (Turin), a center devoted to research and clinical intervention in the area of migration, refugees, and victims of torture. He is presently conducting a comparative ethnographic study on marginality, violence, and suffering, as well as on local healing knowledge and ritual therapies in Sub-Saharan Africa (Mali, Mozambique).

Barbara Castelnuovo is an Italian Uganda-based clinical Researcher. She is a specialist in Infectious Diseases, trained at the University of Milan, with a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Antwerp. She has worked at the Infectious Diseases Institute since 2004, and since 2018 she has been a Head of the Research Program, with more than 80 projects. Her research is mainly focused on service delivery and outcomes using observational studies and operational research in the field of infectious diseases.

Giovanna Cavatorta, PhD in Cultural Anthropology, is currently a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at the CNRS of Marseille (Centre Norbert Elias). She has carried out fieldworks in Senegal, Italy and Djibouti on migration, development and gender-based violence.

Giuseppe Costa is a MD, Epidemiologist since the 1979. Full Professor of Public Health at the University of Turin. Head of the Regional Health Observatory of the Piedmont Region. Main fields of research are health service evaluation and social determinants of health.

Epidemiologist and public health expert, started working in Africa in cooperation Projects in the field of Primary Health Care and Nutrition. From 1993 is at the National Institute of Health (Istituto Superiore di Sanità-ISS) in Rome, currently a senior researcher at the ISS National Centre for Global Health. She has extensive experience on various areas related to communicable diseases, including those pertinent to migrant health and preparedness, with large network of countries in Europe, Balkans, Mediterranean, Black Sea and Sahel.

Currently senior research at the Center for Global Health of the Italian National Institute for Public Health in Rome. She is public health expert and experienced project manager, has specific expertise in the fields of international cooperation, migrant health, preparedness, surveillance and control of infectious diseases and cross-border health threats, with coordination of large scientific international networks. She has also spent several years abroad with research institutes and NGOs.

Dr. Mohammed Lamorde is the Head of Department of the Prevention, Care and Treatment Programme at the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI), Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda. Over the past nine years, he has worked at IDI undertaking clinical pharmacology research in the fields of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Dr. Lamorde is the President of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Uganda Chapter, member of the advisory panel of the HIV drug-drug interactions and a member of the African Research Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Dr.Stella Neema is a Medical Anthropologist, Professor at the Makerere University, Kampala.

Edoardo Occa is PhD Candidate in Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Milano Bicocca. Living and working in health cooperation in Africa since 2005, currently works as Head of Community Health Interventions with Doctors with Africa - CUAMM in Mozambique. Based in Maputo with his wife, their kids and their dog.

Ivo Quaranta is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna, where he carries out his research in the field of medical anthropology. His research interests focus in particular on the analysis of the cultural elaboration and social production of the "disease experience". He currently focuses his research on the topics: the relationship between health and migration processes, the application of anthropology in the context of medical and socio-health services and, more generally, public anthropology.

Pino Schirripa is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Sapienza - University of Rome. His research interests are Medical Anthropology and Religious Anthropology, and he carried out fieldwork in Ghana, Ethiopia and Italy on this subjects.

Anthropologist by background, he is an expert in international cooperation. Has worked for over ten years in different Sub-Saharan countries (Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia, S. Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Mali, Ethiopia, Liberia) managing and coordinating socio-sanitary projects for international organisations and NGOs. He also worked in policy and advocacy at Italian, European and International level. He is currently employed at the Centre for Global Health of the National Institute of Health as a researcher.

Statistician and epidemiologist, senior researcher at the National Centre for Global Health (National Institute of Health). Her main fields of expertise are infectious diseases surveillance systems and training on epidemiology.

Mattia Trunfio is a Junior Research Fellow at the Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Clinic, Amedeo di Savoia Hospital, University of Torino, Italy. He specialised in infectious diseases (University of Torino) and qualified in tropical medicine and hygiene (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK) after working for several months in Uganda as a clinical and research fellow. He is currently interested in HIV and tropical medicine research.

Cecilia Pennacini is a Professor of African anthropology and ethnology at the University of Turin.

Alessandro Gusman is a Researcher in African anthropology and ethnology at the University of Turin.

Acting Principal, College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. A feminist scholar with extensive experience in research on gender, public politics, livelihood and popular culture. Also honorary Professor at Nelson Mandela University, South Africa and member of Council for Development of Social Research in Africa (CODESRIA).

Andrea Calcagno is Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases at the University of Torino. He is involved in the clinical management and research of HIV, tuberculosis and tropical diseases and gained field experience in South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa

Giuseppe Mistretta has been the Director for sub-Saharan Africa for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. He worked around 20 years in Africa, where he most recently served as Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia (2014-17) and Angola (2009-2014).

Stefano Ruzza is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Torino & a Head of Program at T.wai.

Francesco Merlo is the Programme Officer for the 2020 TOAfrica Summer School and a Junior Research Fellow at T.wai. He holds experiences in the fields of international development in sub-Saharan Africa and the Italian system for the integration of refugees.