Advisors

Prior to becoming chief of projects, Kulu previously served as a group executive manager of the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. Prior to these roles, she served as major general and government security regulator for the South African Police Service as well as the director of communication and spokesperson for the South African Ministry of Public Service Administration. She also previously served as co-negotiator in the public administration department of the South African government and was also an advisor to intercountry security committees. In 2010, Kulu played a key role in public safety by leading security planning for the FIFA World Cup and the African Cup of Nations tournaments. As a major general in the South African Police Service, she was deployed as chief negotiator on special envoys in the Ivory Coast and Mauritania. Kulu was named Businesswoman of the Year in 2015 by the Business Woman Foundation of South Africa. Earlier in her career, she was the public affairs and area operations manager for Cape Metrorail, the business development manager for Holistic Settlements, and the training manager at Kohler Flexible Packaging. Kulu holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Cape Town and an Honours degree in business administration from the University of Stellenbosch.

Dr. DeJong’s work focuses on health communications, technology transfer, changing social norms and behaviors, and policy and program evaluation. He presently works with the following businesses and organizations: AB InBev; AB InBev Foundation; DRUIDapp, Inc.; Evelyn Lilly Lutz Foundation; International Town-Gown Association; Responsible Retailing Forum; and Straterus/RRF Field Services LLC. He previously served as a professor of community health sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health; the director of the US Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention; and as a director of research and program development for Outside The Classroom, an online alcohol education company later acquired by EVERFI, Inc. He is the author of over 450 monographs, book chapters, academic papers, and other publications and materials on substance abuse prevention, health promotion, criminal justice, social psychology, and the use of media to change social norms and behaviors. Dr. DeJong is a graduate of Dartmouth College and received his PhD in psychology from Stanford University.

Sidibé is one of the world’s leading experts on brands that drive health outcomes through mass behavioral change. From within Unilever, she has created a movement to change the handwashing behaviors of one billion people — the single biggest hygiene behavior change program in the world — and conceived and established the multiple award-winning, UN-recognized Global Handwashing Day that is now celebrated in over 100 countries. Sidibé’s approach to pushing boundaries and challenging the status quo has been pivotal to leading a paradigm shift in the way public-private partnerships for health and well-being are managed and funded. This has led to her being recognized as one of the top 10 intrapreneurs in the world. Her foresight in establishing Lifebuoy’s social mission has been replicated across Unilever as an example of a best practice for brands looking to positively impact the world whilst driving market share. She has advocated for businesses to gain growth and profit from engagement in social and health issues in order to build more sustainable and effective interventions. She is a regular commentator in the media on this subject. Sidibé is a trustee of WaterAid, the world’s largest civil society organization on water and sanitation and a commissioner for The Lancet on the future of health in Africa. Sidibé is from Mali and holds a PhD in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a master’s degree in water and waste engineering from Loughborough University in the UK. She was trained as an agricultural and environmental engineer at McGill University in Canada.

Dr Clark is the Chair of the Technical Advisory Group. He is the former Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment within the ​US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). While at SAMHSA, Dr Clark helped create the Recovery Community Services Programs, Recovery-Oriented Systems of Care, and Access to Recovery, a presidential initiative. He has often worked closely with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy on the president’s drug strategy, tackling issues such as getting treatment to pregnant and postpartum women, reducing recidivism among individuals in the criminal justice system, and increasing choice of treatment options. He previously worked at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and is board-certified in General Psychiatry, with an ABAM certification in Addiction Psychiatry. He is a member of the Washington, DC Bar Association and licensed to practice medicine in several jurisdictions. ​

Dr Clark holds a bachelor’s degree from Wayne State University, a medical doctorate and a master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Michigan schools of Medicine and Public Health, and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.​

Dr Wolf is the Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is also a professor of medicine and medical social sciences with a focus on general internal medicine and geriatrics. Dr Wolf’s work focuses on two things: one is the study of cognitive, psychosocial, and health system factors that affect a person’s ability to successfully manage health; the second is the design of practical, scalable interventions that help individuals and families to access, understand, and use health information to make appropriate health decisions and adopt recommended behaviors. The majority of his work is interventional and leverages health and consumer technologies as appropriate to “hardwire” patient education, counseling, and monitoring activities in the primary care setting to improve self-management of chronic diseases.

Dr Wolf holds a medical doctorate from the University of Illinois, Chicago and a master’s degree in Public Health from Northwestern University.

Dr Massett, who serves on the Technical Advisory Group in an individual capacity, is also the Senior Advisor on Clinical Research Recruitment and Engagement at the National Institute on Aging where she oversees the implementation of the National Strategy for the Recruitment and Participation in Alzheimer’s and Related Dementias clinical research. Dr Massett has over 25 years of professional experience in program evaluation, consumer research, and social marketing. She previously spent 15 years at the National Cancer Institute, working with the early- and late-phase treatment clinical trial network systems to develop and apply systematic accrual practices to support challenging trials. She also spent eight years as the Associate Director of the institute’s Office of Market Research and Evaluation. Prior to her work in the federal government, Dr Massett was Vice President of Health Research at Porter Novelli and held senior research positions at RTI International and the Academy for Educational Development. She has overseen research for national health campaigns sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the March of Dimes, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dr Massett holds a doctoral degree in Health Communication from the University of Maryland.

Dr Warren has served in a number of scientific and administrative positions throughout his long career in public service. Toward the end of his federal government career, Dr Warren served for seven years as NIAAA’s Deputy Director, part of which was spent concurrently serving as the Acting Director of NIAAA. Earlier in his career he served as Director of the NIAAA Office of Science Policy and Communications and as NIAAA’s Associate Director for Basic Research. Dr Warren has published many papers and reviews on fetal alcohol spectrum and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders including a history on the recognition of this serious birth defect. Dr Warren has gained numerous honors for his leadership in the initial development and long-term involvement in research programs on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

Dr Warren holds a doctoral degree in Biochemistry from Michigan State University.

He is currently the Associate Director of the JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Head of the Division of Behavioral Health and Health Promotion; and the Director of the Centre of Health Behaviours Research. He also holds adjunct professorships in Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Peking Union Medical College, Central South University and consultancy positions in the Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Beijing, Hunan province, and Jiangsu province, among others.

Professor Lau is the Founding President of the Hong Kong Society of Behavioral Health and member of the Governing Council and co-chair of the Strategic Planning Committee of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. He is also a member of the Preparatory Committee of setting up the Behavioral Health Division of the China National Preventive Medicine Society. He was awarded the International Collaboration Award of the International Society of Behavioral Medicine. His research interests include addiction research, such as substance and alcohol use, smoking, gambling, and Internet Gaming Disorder. He serves as an associate editor of Addiction, and an editorial board member of Addictive Behaviors. He has published over 500 papers in English peer-reviewed journals, with an h-index of >53. He has provided consultancy to the World Health Organization (WHO) and other international organizations and was invited to participate in the Second WHO Forum on alcohol, drugs, and addictive behaviors.