Paolo is Professor of Medicine at the University of Bologna, Italy, and Stony Brook University, USA, where he also serves as Associate Director for Population Sciences at the Stony Brook Cancer Center. His research focuses on the epidemiology and prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases, with a particular emphasis on environmental, occupational, and lifestyle risk factors, gene–environment interactions, and molecular epidemiology. He has been instrumental in the creation and leadership of several international consortia dedicated to cancer research, spanning lung, liver, pancreas, and head and neck cancers. Author of more than 1,600 peer-reviewed publications and 16 books, Paolo is among the most highly cited clinical scientists worldwide (h-index >140 in Web of Science, >200 in Google Scholar). His work has significantly advanced scientific understanding of carcinogenesis and continues to inform global public health policy. 

Michelle has over two decades of experience as a health care policy and management professional, with expertise in healthcare quality measurement, patient experience and patient-centered care. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy and manages several international and national collaborative research projects focused on pooling data from around the world to address infectious and chronic disease challenges. Michelle has led health care change management initiatives in both the USA and Australia. She was Director of Coordinated Care at the North Western Melbourne Primary Health Network, one of 31 primary health networks instituted by the Australian Government to commission health care system reforms at the local level. She was also a founding team member at Minnesota Community Measurement, a non-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the improvement of health by publicly reporting health care quality data.

Monireh is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her work focuses on the epidemiology of cancer, with particular attention to modifiable risk factors such as nutrition, occupational exposures, and gene–environment interactions. She has experience in management of cancer registry-based studies and has coordinated dietary assessments in large multicenter case–control and cohort studies. Next to publishing research on nutrition, she has also worked with patients in clinical settings. Her research on occupational risk factors has centered on exposures to benzene, PFASs, and PAHs. Her notable work includes systematic reviews and meta-analyses on cancer risk factors. Through this body of research, Monireh hopes to advance the understanding of how environmental and lifestyle determinants shape cancer risk, with a particular emphasis on global populations.