Maria Knight Lapinski
Michigan State University (USA). 
United States

Professor of the Department of Communication and Michigan AgBioResearch at Michigan State University (USA). Director of the Michigan State University Health and Risk Communication Center: Healthy People-Healthy Planet. From 2012 to 2016 she co-led an interdisciplinary collaboration: One Health: Emerging Communication Technology for Decision-Making and Behavior, which was seed-funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. She currently serves as a Commissioner for The Lancet’s One Health Commission.

Matthew Seeger
Wayne State University (USA).

Professor of Communication at Wayne State University (USA). His books include Crisis and emergency risk communication (2nd edition, 2015), Narratives of crisis: Stories of ruin and renewal (2016), International handbook of crisis communication (2016), and Theorizing crisis communication (2021). He was the founding editor of The Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research.

Deanna Sellnow
University of Central Florida (USA).

Professor of Strategic Communication in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida (USA). Her research focuses on instructional communication in multiple contexts, particularly risk and crisis communication. Her work is widely published in interdisciplinary and international journals. She has completed funded research on instructional risk message design for such agencies as the United States Geological Survey, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Timothy Sellnow
University of Central Florida (USA).

Professor of Strategic Communication in the Nicholson School of Communication at the University of Central Florida (USA). His research focuses on risk and crisis communication. He has conducted funded research for the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Geological Survey, and the World Health Organization. He has also served in an advisory role for the National Academy of Sciences, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Food and Drug Administration.

Teresa L. Thompson
University of Dayton (USA).

Emeritus Professor of Communication at the University of Dayton (USA). Her research focuses on health communication and gender, ethics, provider-patient interaction, and coping with bereavement. She has edited the journal Health Communication for almost 35 years and she has authored and edited numerous books and articles, including all three editions of The Routledge Handbook of Health Communication and the three volume SAGE Encyclopedia of Health Communication.