Dr Ryan Minster,
School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, USA 

Dr Minster is a genetic epidemiologist who studies the genetics of complex traits such as body composition, cardiometabolic disease, obesity, and healthy aging. For more than ten years he has been a member of an interdisciplinary team engaged in understanding the role that genetics plays in such phenotypes among the people of Samoa and American Samoa. He has also recently been serving as a geneticist and bioinformatician with the SickleGenAfrica project of the H3Africa Consortium, which aims to understand the genetic determinants of organ damage in individuals with sickle cell disease.