Hema Malini is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Andalas since 1999. Her works focus on the development of health education program especially for self-management of people with chronic diseases and mixed method design in nursing research. She graduated from Monash University for her Master and Doctorate program. Her current research is in the development of diabetes prevention program and causal modelling for linking the stress, efficacy and self-care among people with diabetes.

Khatijah Lim Abdullah is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine; University of Malaya. She has obtained both her BSc in Nursing Studies and Masters in Health Services Management from the University of Manchester UK and her Doctorate from the University of Southampton, UK. Her current research interests are in inter-professional education, nursing practice, patient shared decision making, particularly in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), patient safety and clinical leadership.

Judith McFarlane, RN, Dr.P.H., is a professor of nursing and the Parry Chair in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Texas Woman's University. She speaks with Pulse about her passion for helping people, the roundabout way she began to study violence against women and a new smartphone app to help identify risk for abused women and their children.

Jeff Evans completed his undergraduate studies at the University Of Wales College Of Medicine in 1989, have a long history of involvement in wilderness emergency care. He joined the University of Glamorgan in 1998 and currently a senior lecturer in disaster health care based in the Faculty of Health Sport & Science. My teaching duties cover both undergraduate and post-graduate programs in general nursing, critical and emergency care, and disaster healthcare. He also has a long standing interest is in the use of simulation in healthcare education, being a founder member of the Health Education Research Group and deputy theme leader for Auster and Unsupported Care Environments research.

Yanti Puspita Sari is a lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing Andalas University. Yanti focuses her contribution on maternity nursing. Yanti is actively involved in mother-infant health problems through research, community outreach and education. Yanti completed master program on maternity nursing since 2014.