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Dr Jeemon Panniyammakal, Assistant Professor (Epidemiology), Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Dr Jeemon Panniyammakal, Assistant Professor (Epidemiology), Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum, India, holds a PhD research degree in medical cardiology (Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology: 2012) from the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow with fellowship support from the 'Wellcome Trust-Public Health Foundation of India-and the UK Universities consortium' (WTP-UKC).

Elizabeth Rhodes, PhD, SM is a mixed-methods researcher whose work focuses on nutrition and non-communicable diseases. She has conducted qualitative research in South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America. She has experience in study design, data collection, and training field teams. Currently, Dr. Rhodes is managing a large qualitative research component of a mixedmethods study to evaluate a lifestyle intervention to prevent and control diabetes in India. Dr. Rhodes is a US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty Global Health Fellow. She earned a PhD in Nutrition and Health Sciences from Emory University and a SM in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.