Editorial Board
Editors
Prof. Medani P. Bhandari
Akamai University
USA
Biography
Professor Medani P. Bhandari has been serving as a Professor of inter - disciplinary Department of Natural Resource & Environment / Sustainability Studies, at the Akamai University, USA and a visiting Professor at the Sumy State University (SSU), Ukraine. He holds M.A. Anthropology (Tribhuwan University, Nepal), M.Sc. Environmental System Monitoring and Analysis (ITC - The University of Twente, the Netherlands), M.A. Sustainable International Development (Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA), M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology (Syracuse University, NY, USA). Prof. Bhandari has spent most of his career focusing on the sociological theories; Environmental Health Hazard ; environmental management; social innovation; developing along the way expertise in global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and natural resources governance; climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, sustainable development; theory of natural resources governance; impact evaluation of rural livelihood; international organizations; public/ social policy; the non - profit sector; low carbon mechanism; good governance; climate adaptation; REDD plus; carbon financing; green economy and renewable energy; nature, culture and power.
Research Interest
Prof. Bhandari’s major teaching and research specialties include: Sociological theories and Practices; Environmental Health; Social and Environmental research methods; Social and Environmental innovation; Social and Environmental policies; Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; International environmental governance; Green Economy; Sustainability and assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts on society and nature. In brief, Prof. Bhandari hassound theoretical and practical knowledge in social science and environment science. His field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the North America, Western Europe, Australia, Japan and the Middle East. Professor Bhandari has published 4 books, and about 50 scholarly papers in international scientific journals.
Dr. Brian P Mangum
Fiji National University
Fiji
Biography
Dr Brian P. Mangum holds an MD, PhD in Public Health Epidemiology, an MSc in Medical Anthropology, and a BA in Liberal Arts. He has a keen interest in all aspects of general practice/family medicine as related to both clinical practice and medical education, with a particular interest in behavioural science and medical psychology; the prevention, control and treatment of non-communicable disease, such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes; and infectious diseases, including tropical diseases such as leptospirosis, dengue, and malaria.
Dr Mangum has worked both in practice and academia for over fifteen years, and in addition to being a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, to which he was elected for his application of anthropological principles in addressing global public health issues, he currently holds the following appointments:
· Professor of Medicine, University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine AHEC DDFT
· Professor of Medical Epidemiology and Public Health, College of Micronesia FSM
· Associate Professor of Medical Epidemiology and Emergency Health Management, Fiji National University
· Chair and Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, St Lucia
· Consultant Medical Epidemiologist to a wide-range of organisations
Research Interest
Dr Brian P. Mangum’s research interests include all aspects of general practice/family medicine, but in particular the sociocultural epidemiology of non-communicable diseases, as well as emerging and neglected tropical diseases; the efficacy of behavioural science and medical psychology in the treatment of various conditions, such as cardiovascular disease; and the medical anthropology of socioeconomic status and risk as it relates to the construction of disease patterns in developing settings.