Dr Nithiah Thangiah has been working in the research field for the past 12 years. She has been involved in many projects on population health at the Centre for Population Health (CePH), Department of Social & Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. Her research interest includes survey design, data management and data analysis. She is comfortable in using SPSS, Stata and JASP for data analysis. She has gained a Masters in Applied Statistics and PhD in Public Health (Adolescent Health). Her PhD in cluster analysis has enhanced her statistical skills while exploring adolescent health and CVD risk factors in Malaysia. She has published and co-authored several papers during her career as a researcher.

Dr. Pauline Yeoh is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She earned her Doctoral Degree through the Fast Track PhD program, Graduate On Time with Distinction for Thesis. Registered as a Graduate Engineer with the Board of Engineers Malaysia, Dr. Yeoh is passionate about advancing digital health and strives to bridge the gap between engineering and medicine through innovative research in computational intelligence for healthcare applications. Her research involvement spans national, industrial, and international collaborations, including participation in the China–Malaysia ‘AI+’ New Materials Joint Laboratory between Universiti Malaya and Peking University. During her PhD, she was selected as one of only 30 participants for the Association of Commonwealth Universities Summer School 2022 and served as a visiting PhD student at Xuzhou Medical University, China. She actively fosters global academic engagement and multidisciplinary research dialogues.

Dr. Sumaia Mohammed Zaid is a scholar in measurement and evaluation as well as psychological testing, currently serving in the Department of Educational Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Education, University of Malaya. She earned her PhD in Measurement and Evaluation from the University of Malaya, where she developed a strong foundation in adapting and developing psychological questionnaires. Her academic and research expertise centers on measurement and evaluation, psychological testing, emotion regulation, quantitative statistics, and research methodology.