**About the Editors**

**Amir Khorram-Manesh** currently works as a senior lecturer in surgery and disaster medicine, trauma, and public health. He has international engagemen<sup>t</sup> as a visiting professor in various countries, such as at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in Shiraz, Iran. He is research advisor and executive member of the Gothenburg Emergency Medicine Research Group (GEMREG) and at the Center for Disaster Medicine in Gothenburg, Sweden. He conducts research in disaster and emergency medicine, trauma, and public health.

**Frederick M Burkle** currently works as a senior fellow and scientist at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, and T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is also a senior international public policy scholar at Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, U.S.A. Frederick conducts research in international and humanitarian medicine, emergency medicine, and disaster medicine. He is trained in emergency medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, public health, and tropical medicine. His major interest is in global public health advancement.

*Editorial*
