Dr Mas Ayu is an Epidemiologist in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya. She is also a consultant epidemiologist at the University Malaya Medical Centre. Her research interest focuses on mental health, substance abuse and psychopharmacology, especially the side effect of metabolic syndrome due to the treatment of schizophrenia. A recipient of several research grants, she has many collaborative research activities with University Malaya Centre of Addiction Sciences. Her recent project is Enhancing Quality and Longevity of Life of Malaysian B40 under Long Term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS). She also involved in another project for B40 - Coping to Live with COVID-19: The New Norm which was funded by WHO.   As a public health specialist in infectious disease and field epidemiologist, Dr Mas Ayu is the member of Malaysia One Health University Network (MyOHUN) which is part of USAID. She is active in activity related to One Health in Malaysia and Southeast Asia Region. Dr Mas Ayu also has research interest on communicable diseases mainly focusing on vector borne diseases like Chikungunya and Dengue Fever. She has research collaboration through Malaysia-Sweden Research Link with Umea University, working on the early warning system of dengue outbreak. Dr Mas Ayu attended the evidence-based medicine (EBM) practice workshop as training for trainer in Oxford University in 2008, funded by grants from the European Union. The international collaboration was together with Utrecht (UMCU), Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM), University of Oxford, the Rumah Sakit Cipto Mangunkusumo (RSCM) Hospital, Jakarta and University of Malaya. She has conducted several EBM workshops together with other trainers. She also served as panel for The Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA), which is a statutory body in Malaysia to accredit academic programs provided by educational institutions providing post-secondary or higher education and facilitate the accreditation and articulation of qualifications.

Permanent resident of an Indigenous community in the rural forest village regions of Sarawak, providing a rare lived foundation in Indigenous identity, land-based knowledge, and cultural continuity. A distinguished Malaysian anthropologist, her scholarship is grounded in profound personal experience and a longstanding commitment to Indigenous worldviews. A trained anthropologist, she is recognised by national and international institutions for her significant contributions to advancing Indigenous studies and cultural preservation. She specialises in traditional ecological knowledge, intergenerational cultural transmission, Indigenous governance, and the socio-political challenges confronting native communities. Widely respected for bridging academic research with community-led advocacy, she ensures that Indigenous voices remain central in policy debates and scholarly discourse. Deeply committed to empowering marginalised communities and documenting cultural heritage, she brings Indigenous perspectives into both national and global conversations. Designated roles: Art curator, curating cultural exhibitions and based on the HIR (2013-2017), Founder of Community-based Enterprise that promotes the traditional Iban Pua Kumbu internationally & MD of Emporoh PLT, a consultancy firm.

Pei Soo Ang (PhD, Macq.) is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics (FLL), Universiti Malaya. She currently serves as Director of the Academic Programme Management Centre at the Academic Strategic Planning Department under the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s Office (Academic and International). She previously held the position of Deputy Dean (Higher Degree) at FLL from 2022 to 2024 and was a Visiting Faculty member at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta during the same period. Her research interests include disability and health discourses, critical disability studies, critical discourse studies, social semiotics and visual communication. Her current work focuses on characterising disability and health discourses in Malaysian media, employing a critical semiotic framework and a multi-perspectival methodological approach.