Members
The Technical Advisory Group on Social Connection (TAG-SC) members were selected through an open call for independent experts in all aspects of social connection, social isolation and loneliness. The TAG consists of 20 members representing 16 WHO Member States across all WHO regions. The TAG includes psychologists, psychiatrists, social epidemiologists, social gerontologists, paediatricians, public health specialists and experts in digital mental health.
To access the biography of the TAG-SC members, click on the links next to the photos below.
Co-Chairs
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychological Sciences, FLAME University, Pune, India
Professor, Psychology for Education, and Director of Research, School of Environment, Education & Development Faculty of Humanities, Manchester Institute of Education, University of Manchester, UK
Members
Associate Professor, Child and Adolescent Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang, Indonesia
Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Exeter, UK
Associate Professor of Interactive Computing, and Director of the Social Dynamics and Well-Being Laboratory, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Professor and Associate Research Scientist, Aging and Development Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Director of Research Center for Addiction and Risky Behaviors Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
Professor of Health and Social Care Policy, Health Services Research and Policy, Faculty of Public Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Head, Department of Mental Health & Community Psychology, Makerere University School of Psychology, Kampala, Uganda
John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, Social & Behavioral Sciences Department, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, USA
Professor, Vice Chair of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Professor and Chair, Department of Social Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine and School of Public Health, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Professor in Applied Psychology (part time), Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
CEO & Scientific Chair, Ending Loneliness Together. Principal Research Fellow, Prevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Professor and Director, Center for Bioethics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile Professor and Researcher, Faculty of Medicine, Central University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Director of Research and Program Director at the George Institute for Global Health (IN) and the University of New South Wales (AS), India
Coordinator of the Mental Health, Trauma and Violence Program – Research Development and Management Department, National Institute of Health, Marracuene District, Mozambique
Professor of Evidence-Based Social Policy, Centre for Evidence-Based Social Sciences, Lanzhou University
Associate Professor of Health Psychology, Institute of Applied Psychology, Medical College Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
WHO Secretariat
Technical Officer and Scientific Lead on Social Connection, Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing, Department of Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization
Consultant – Social Connection, Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing, Department of Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organization