Aleida Mendes Borgesleads the Grassroots Women Leaders research stream at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership (GIWL), Kings College London, UK. She is co-editor ofPandemic Response and the Cost of Lockdowns: Global Debates from Humanities and Social Sciences(2022), and she has authored several other reports and peer-reviewed publications in English and Portuguese.Toby Greenis Professor of African history at King's College London, UK. His bookA Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution(2019) was awarded several international literary prizes and was shortlisted for both the theLA TimesBook Prize and the Wolfson History Prize. He is also a co-author (with Thomas Fazi) ofThe Covid Consensus: The Global Assault on Democracy and the Poor - A Critique from the Left(2023).T. Sundararamanis Professor and Dean of the School of Health Systems Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, as well as adjunct faculty at the School of Public Health in Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, India. He is also a former director, and current member of the global steering council, of the Peoples Health Movement. He has over two decades of practitioner experience and has helped design and implement multiple state- and national-level health systems initiatives, including India's National Rural Health Mission.