Who are the members of the CLEAR collaboration?
The collaboration has over 20 members across 7 countries and 5 continents. Members include experienced researchers from leading research institutions in Bangladesh, Brazil, Niger and Pakistan, high-level knowledge users from national ministries of health and labour in the four partner countries, and interdisciplinary experts from McGill University and other Canadian and US universities. As well, there are also observers from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).
McGill team
| Dr Anne Andermann, Director, Child Labour Evidence to Action Research (CLEAR) collaboration and Associate Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dr Ann Macaulay, Director, Participatory Research at McGill (PRAM) and Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dr Kirsten Johnson, Director, McGill Humanitarian Studies Initiative (HSI) and Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Dr Marc Laporta, Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health, Douglas Institute, and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Prof Myriam Denov, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
Bangladesh team
| Prof Jahangir Khan, Lead Health Economist, Health Systems and Economics Unit, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Prof Alayne Adams, Senior Social Scientist, Centre for Equity and Health Systems, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh Dr Tajul Islam Abdul Bari, Deputy Programme Manager, Child Health Programme, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Brazil team
| Dr Vilma Santana, Director, Integrated Program in Occupational and Environmental Health, Institute for Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil and formerly Co-Chair, Knowledge Network on Employment Conditions and Health for the WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health Prof Jorge Iriart, Professor, Maternal-Child Health, Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil Dr Guilherme Netto, Director, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Brazil |
Niger team
| Dr Djibo Douma Maiga, Chair, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Abdou Moumouni University, and Coordinator, National Program on Mental Health, Ministry of Health, Niamey, Niger Mr Ibrahim Balla Souley, Work Inspector, Ministry of Employment and Social Security, and Coordinator, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), ILO Niger Office Dr Rebecca Freeman-Grais, Director, Epidemiology and Population Health, Epicentre, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), Paris, France |
Pakistan team
| Dr Muazzam Nasrullah, Co-Director, Child Labour Evidence to Action Research collaboration and Adjunct Professor, Injury Control and Research Center, West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA Prof Farooq Naseer, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan Mr Saeed Awan, Director, Centre for the Improvement of Working Conditions and Environment (CIWCE), Labour and Human Resource Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan |
Interdisciplinary supporting members
| Dr Theresa Betancourt, Director, Research Program on Children and Global Adversity and Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA Prof Peter Dorman, Consultant, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, ILO and Faculty, Political Economy, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA Dr Lisa Andermann, Head, Cultural Consultation Team, Mount Sinai Hospital and an Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Prof Ryoa Chung, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada Prof Nicholas King, Director, MEDEC Lab (Measurement, Ethics, and Decision-making Collaborative) and Assistant Professor, Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montreal, Canada |
High level global observers
| Dr Susan Gunn, Senior Technical Specialist - Hazardous Child Labour, International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, International Labour Organization (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland Dr Chiara Servili, Consultant and former Technical Officer, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland Prof Timothy Evans, Director of Health Nutrition & Population, World Bank, Washington, DC, USA (formerly World Health Organization Dr Kumanan Rasanathan, Health Specialist, Knowledge Management and Implementation Research Unit, Health Section, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York, USA |
Back row (left to right): Mr Ibrahim Balla Souley (Niger), Will Affleck (Canada PhD student), Margarete Santos (Brazil PhD student), Prof Jorge Iriart (Brazil), Nazmul Alam (Bangladesh Postdoctoral fellow), Dr Vilma Santana (Brazil), Prof Jahangir Khan (Bangladesh), Mr Saeed Awan (Pakistan). Front row: Prof Alayne Adams (Bangladesh), Dr Djibo Douma Maiga (Niger), Dr Anne Andermann (Canada), Dr Susan Gunn (ILO observer), Dr Ann Macaulay (Canada), Dr Ali Okhowat (Canada PhD student).