|  | The Second International Conference on GlobalHealth Challenges
 GLOBAL HEALTH   2013November 17 - 22, 2013 - Lisbon, Portugal
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     GLOBAL HEALTH General Chairs
      Shunji Shimizu, Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, Japan 
     GLOBAL HEALTH Publicity Chair
     Siddhartha Jonnalagadda,  Mayo Clinic | Department of Health Sciences   Research - Rochester, USA 
     GLOBAL HEALTH 2013 Technical Program Committee
     Charlie Abela, University of Malta - Msida, Malta
       Sachiyo  Aburatani, Computational Biology Research Center - National Institute of Advanced  Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
       Dana  Al Kukhun, University of Toulouse III, France
       Giner  Alor Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba - Veracruz, México
       Hrvoje Belani, Croatian  Health Insurance Fund - Zagreb,   Croatia
       Mounir  Bousbia-Salah, Badji Mokhtar University - Annaba, Algeria
       Pamela Briggs, School of Life Sciences / Northumbria University,  UK
       Sabin-Corneliu  Buraga, "A. I. Cuza" University, Romania
       Dechang  Chen, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences - Bethesda, USA
       Po-Hsun  Cheng, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
       Chih-Lin  Chi, Harvard Medical School, USA
   Meyrick  Chow, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
          Michel  Cotsaftis, LACSC/ECE - Paris, France
       Shirley Coyle, Centre for Sensor Web Technologies / Dublin City  University, Ireland
       Vasa  Curcin, Imperial College London, UK
   Anna  Cysewska-Sobusiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
       
   Kevin  Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
       Stefan  J. Darmoni, Rouen University Hospital, France
       M. Jamal Deen,  McMaster University - Hamilton, Canada
       Wolfgang  Deiters, Fraunhofer-Institute for Software und Systems -Dortmund, Germany
       Steven  A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
       Gayo  Diallo, University of Bordeaux 2, France
       Elton  Domnori, Epoka University - Tirana, Albania
       Julie Doyle, Dundalk Institute of Technology - Dundalk, Ireland
       Marwan Dwairy, Cross-Cultural Researcher - Nazerat Ellit, Israel
       Zakaria  Elberrichi, Djillali Liabes University, Algeria
       Frank  Emmert-Streib, Queen's University Belfast, UK
       Paul  Fergus, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
       Amy Fielden, Northumbria University, UK
       Aleksandra Fucic, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational  Health - Zagreb, Croatia
       
       Xiaohing  Gao, Middlesex University, UK 
       Nuno M. Garcia, Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies -   Lisbon, Portugal
       Hassan  Ghasemzadeh, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
       Yi-Ke  Guo, Imperial College London, UK
       Martha Harrell, Institute of Mathematical Physics  (IMP) - Williamsburg, USA
       Harry  Stewart Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh, USA
       Vasant  Honavar, Iowa State University - Ames, USA
       Jun  (Luke) Huan, The university of Kansas, USA
       Kun  Huang, Ohio State University, USA
       Hamidah  Ibrahim, Universiti Putra, Malaysia
       Yoshiro  Imai, Kagawa University, Japan
       Ravi  Janardan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
       Siddhartha Jonnalagadda,  Mayo Clinic | Department of Health Sciences   Research - Rochester, USA
       Jose  M. Juarez, University of Murcia, Spain
       Aravind  Kailas, University of North Carolina - Charlotte, USA
       Mehmed  Kantardzic, University of Louisville, USA
       Ayten Karataş, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
       Anastasia  N. Kastania, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
       Okba  Kazar, Biskra University, Algeria
       Hassan  M. Khachfe, Lebanese International University, Lebanon
       Frank  Klawonn, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research - Braunschweig, Germany
       Antonio Lanatà, University of Pisa, Italy
       Tao  Li, Florida International University, USA
       Yaohang  Li, Old Dominion University, USA
       Marius  George Linguraru, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, USA
       Igor Ljubi, University College  for Applied Computer Engineering - Zagreb, Croatia
       Zhiyuan  Luo, Royal, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
       Malika  Mahoui, IUPUI - Indianapolis, USA
       Jochen  Meyer, OFFIS Institute for Computer Science, Germany
       Radha  Nagarajan, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA
       Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan
       Brendan O’Flynn, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
       Michael  Ochs, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA
       Carlos Oberdan Rolim, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul  (UFRGS), Brazil
       Chika  Oshima, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science / Faculty of Medicine - Saga  University, Japan
       Danilo Pani, University of    Cagliari, Italy
       Julien Penders, imec / Holst Centre, The Netherlands
       George Perry, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
       Miodrag  Potkonjak, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
       David  Riaño, Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Tarragona, Spain
       Carsten Röcker, RWTH Aachen    University, Germany
       Alejandro  Rodríguez González, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
       Saqib  Saeed, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan
       Abdel-Badeeh  M. Salem, Ain Shams University - Cairo, Egypt
       Majid  Sarrafzadeh, UCLA, USA
       Shunji Shimizu, Tokyo  University of Science - Suwa,   Japan
       Jatinder  Singh, University of Cambridge, UK
       Miki  Sirola, Aalto University, Finland
       Bin  Song, Oracle, Inc., USA
       Daniel Steffen, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence  (DFKI) GmbH - Kaiserslautern, Germany
       Maria  Taboada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
       Adel  Taweel, King's College London, UK
       Chrisa  Tsinaraki, Technical University of Crete, Greece
       Hayato Uchida, University of Hyogo, Japan
       Nico Van de Weghe, Ghent University,  Belgium
       Egon  L. van den Broek, TNO Technical Sciences - Delft | University of Twente -  Enschede | Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen - Nijmegen, The  Netherlands
       Jari  Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
       Pierangelo  Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
       Brijesh  Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
       Fei  Wang, IBM Almaden Research Center - San Jose, USA
       Liangjiang  Wang, Clemson University - Greenwood, USA
       Chunhua  Weng, Columbia University, USA
       Hua Xu, Vanderbilt University/School of Medicine, The Netherlands
       Mingjing Yang, University of Ulster, UK
       Juan Ye, University of St Andrews, UK
       Yanbin  Yin, University of Georgia, USA
       Wang  Yu-Ping, Tulane University - New Orleans, USA
       Constantin-Bala  Zamfirescu, "Lucian Blaga" Univ. of Sibiu, Romania
       Erliang  Zeng, University of Notre Dame, USA
       Zhongming  Zhao, Vanderbilt University / Medical Center, USA
       Wei  Zhong, University of South Carolina Upstate - Spartanburg, USA
       Bin  Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA