Nino Cartabellotta, MD, specialised in Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, is the president of the GIMBE Foundation, which since 1996 has promoted the integration of the best scientific evidence into all political, managerial, and professional decisions concerning peoples’ health. An Italian pioneer of Evidence-based Practice (EBP), he is today recognized as one of the most authoritative experts on research and health in our country, thanks to his cross-cutting skills that concern all levels of the health care system.

He is the scientific coordinator of the institutional programs of the GIMBE Foundation: Let’s save our NHS, aimed at safeguarding a public, equitable, and universal health care service, and GIMBE4young, born to spread the culture of EBP among future health professionals. He is in charge of publishing the "Report on the Italian NHS" and he’s coordinator of the GIMBE Observatory on the NHS for a continuous and independent monitoring of the responsibilities and actions of all health care stakeholders with the ultimate goal of using public money wisely and protecting the health of citizens. He is the scientific responsible of GIMBEducation, the training plan of the GIMBE Foundation.

Since 2001, he has coordinated and organized the International Conference for Evidence-based Health Care Teachers and Developers in Italy, in its 10^th edition scheduled in October 2023 as Joint meeting with the 10^th ISEHC Conference.

Since February 2020 he has been the scientific responsible of the GIMBE program for the independent monitoring of the COVID-19 pandemic and the vaccination campaign.

Signe Flottorp is research director at Norwegian Institute of Public Health, and member of the Centre for Epidemic Interventions Research (CEIR) in the Division for Health Services. Signe worked as a general practitioner until 2013, and is senior researcher at Department of General Practice, University of Oslo. She has worked with health services research since 1994, focusing on ways to support informed health choices through systematic reviews, dissemination of research findings, knowledge translation and implementation research. She is an editor of the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) review group and associate editor of Implementation Science. She has participated in the GRADE working group since the start, contributing to the GRADE approach to assess certainty of evidence and strength of recommendations, and she is a member of the GRADE guidance group. She was chair of the Board of Health and Care Services Research in The Research Council of Norway 2008-2015. She is chair of the Norwegian Harkness Committee. 

Professor Paul Glasziou is Director of the Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare at Bond University and was the Director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine in Oxford from 2003-2010. His key interests include identifying and removing barriers to using high quality research in everyday clinical practice and improving the clinical impact of research by reducing the more than $85 Billion annual loss from unpublished and unusable research (Chalmers, Glasziou, Lancet 2009). He co-founded the International Society for Evidence-based Health Care and the RACGP's Handbook of Non-Drug Interventions. He has authored over 600 peer-reviewed journal articles and 7 books.

Gordon Guyatt is a McMaster University Distinguished Professor.  His work, focused on Evidence-based Medicine, has resulted in over 1,500 peer-reviewed publications cited over 175,000 times - making him one of the world’s 20 most cited researchers – and had a profound impact on medical practice worldwide.   

Julie Tilson is a Professor of Clinical Physical Therapy at the USC Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy, Director of the USC DPT program and Associate Chair of DPT Education. She specializes in understanding the most effective methods for translating rehabilitation research into clinical practice. Dr. Tilson teaches evidence-based practice in USC’s doctor of physical therapy program and to clinicians nationally and internationally. Her curricula emphasize active learning and the integration of scientific research, clinical expertise and patient perspectives into clinical decision making.

Dr. Tilson is co-author of Evidence Based Physical Therapy, 2nd ed. (FA Davis, 2019) and has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed publications. Her clinical area of specialty is vestibular rehabilitation and she is a board-certified specialist in neurologic physical therapy.

Dr. Peter Tugwell is Professor of Medicine, and Epidemiology & Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Health Equity. He is a staff physician and practicing rheumatologist at the Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.

In 2001, Dr. Tugwell took the post of Director for the Ottawa Centre for Health Equity at the University of Ottawa. He has built a research program and multidisciplinary team around his Canada Research Chair in Health Equity.

Dr. Tugwell is co-director of a WHO Collaborating Center for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity as well as a member of the Organizing Committee of OMERACT (Outcome Measures in Rheumatology Clinical Trials). Dr. Tugwell is the Coordinating Editor of the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Review Group, and is the and is Founding Co-convenor of the Cochrane Health Equity Field/Campbell Equity Methods Group and serves on the Steering Committee of the Campbell Collaboration.

In 2013, His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada appointed Dr Tugwell to the rank of Officer of the Order of Canada, the second-highest ranking conferred by Canada. The Officer appointment recognizes a lifetime of achievement and merit of a high degree, especially in service to Canada or to humanity at large. Dr Tugwell was recognized for his contributions as an epidemiologist reducing global disparities in health care access.

Dr. Tugwell's publication record includes over 900 journal articles, monographs, and book chapters.

Dr Per Olav Vandvik is a hospital-based internist and health research methodologist based in Oslo, Norway. He is also Professor of Medicine at the University of Oslo. His academic interests focus on evidence synthesis, appraisal, guideline methodology, dissemination, access and use at the point of care, to enhance evidence-based practice and shared decision- making.

Dr Vandvik is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of the MAGIC Evidence Ecosystem Foundation (MAGIC, www.magicevidence.org), a non-profit organization supporting development of digitally structured guidelines, evidence summaries and decision aids to clinicians and patients through the MAGIC online authoring and publication platform (www.magicapp.org). On behalf of MAGIC, he also co-steers the BMJ Rapid Recommendations, an international collaboration with the BMJ to accelerate evidence into practice through trustworthy recommendations. Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic, Dr.Vandvik and MAGIC is devoted to providing solutions to critical challenges with clinical practice guidelines, through trustworthy and living evidence and guidance. Under the leadership of Dr.Vandvik, MAGIC provides methodological support, MAGICapp and BMJ Rapid Recommendations for the WHO living guideline on COVID-19 drugs. Dr. Vandvik was a Trustee of the Board for the Guideline International Network (G-I-N) from 2014 until 2020 and has recently led their Webinar committee resulting in 4 presentations focused on the COVID-19 pandemic. He is also co-chair of the Working Group for Guidelines and HTA in COVID-END that involves more than 60 partner organisations.

Taryn Young has expertise in evidence-informed healthcare, specialism in public health, strong leadership skills and a driving passion to engage and enhance the capacity of students, researchers as well as key decision-makers to break the barriers to successful application of research evidence findings to healthcare. She leads the Centre for Evidence-based Health Care and heads the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University. She collaborates with various institutions to promote evidence-informed practice and policy in Africa, taking into account its unique attributes and the relevance of proposed activities.