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Sister Barbara Brillant, F.M.M., is the dean of Mother Patern College of Health Sciences in Monrovia, Liberia and national health coordinator for the National Catholic Health Council. An American citizen, she has lived in Liberia for almost 40 years. Brillant is a missionary with the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who originally trained as a nurse and midwife and has a master's degree in public health from Boston University.

Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, leads the center’s work on religion and global development. She is also a professor of the practice of development, conflict, and religion in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, teaching diverse courses on the ethics of development work and mentoring students at many levels. She helped to create and now serves as the executive director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, an NGO that works to enhance bridges between different sectors and institutions. In September 2022, she was appointed as a member of the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid at the U.S. Agency for International Development. Marshall has five decades of experience on a variety of development issues in Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and the Middle East, particularly those facing the world’s poorest countries; one way she shares her expertise is through her blog Faith in Action. She was a World Bank officer from 1971 to 2006, and she led the World Bank’s faith and ethics initiative between 2000 and 2006. Marshall is a member of the Working Group on Child Rights and Family Values and the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, both part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Daleen Raubenheimer-Foot is technical advisor for Channels of Hope at World Vision and former HIV/AIDS technical advisor for Southern Africa at World Vision.

David Robinson is an independent consultant for interreligious action in humanitarian emergencies and development. He previously worked for WorldVision International, including a decade as WorldVision's senior advisor for operations, focusing on public health issues such as Ebola and HIV/AIDS, as well as Muslim-Christian relations. 

Dr. Olivia Wilkinson is the director of research at the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities. Her research focuses on secular and religious influences in humanitarian action, and she is the author of Secular and Religious Dynamics in Humanitarian Response (2020).

Peter Kwame Yeboah is the executive director of the Christian Health Association of Ghana (CHAG), which is the second largest provider of health services in Ghana. His areas of expertise, interest, and experience include: health systems strengthening/development, social policy, health sector policy planning, health care financing, and community-based PHC.