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         The Fifth International Conference on 
           Global Health   Challenges 
             GLOBAL HEALTH   2016 
           October 9 - 13, 2016 - Venice, Italy  | 
       
     
     
     
     GLOBAL HEALTH Steering Committee
     Hassan Khachfe, Lebanese International University, Lebanon 
       Shunji Shimizu, Tokyo University of Science, Suwa, Japan 
       Sten Hanke, IPN Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal | AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria 
       Michael Bremseth, Winthrop University, USA
       Jean-Pierre Cordeau, McGill University Health Centre, Canada 
       Ivan Evgeniev, TU Sofia, Bulgaria 
       Matthieu-P. Schapranow, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
     Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University Abbasia-  Cairo Egypt
     GLOBAL HEALTH Technology Advisory Committee
     
     Marike Hettinga, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands 
       Shirley Coyle, Centre for Sensor Web Technologies / Dublin City University, Ireland 
       Anna Cysewska-Sobusiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland 
       Kevin Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA 
       Ravi Janardan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA 
       Jose M. Juarez, University of Murcia, Spain 
       Jochen Meyer, OFFIS Institute for Computer Science, Germany 
       Vesselin Gueorguiev, TU Sofia, Bulgaria 
       Miki Sirola, Aalto University, Finland 
       Daniel Steffen, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) GmbH - Kaiserslautern, Germany 
       Maria Taboada Iglesias, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain 
       Jari Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland 
       Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 
       Brijesh Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia 
       Liangjiang Wang, Clemson University - Greenwood, USA 
       Hans C. Ossebaard, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment - Bilthoven, The Netherlands
     Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Health Systems and Innovation Cluster, World   Health Organization - Geneva, Switzerland
     GLOBAL HEALTH Public/Government/Research Advisory Committee
     Christopher Mayer, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria 
       João Quintas, Instituto Pedro Nunes, Portugal 
       Yoshikazu Seki, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) - Ibaraki, Japan 
       Hrvoje Belani, Croatian Health Insurance Fund - Zagreb, Croatia 
       Stefan J. Darmoni, Rouen University Hospital, France
       Chih-Lin Chi, University of Minnesota-Twin  Cities, USA
       Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Northwestern    University, USA
       Bin Song, Oracle, Inc., USA 
       Egon L. van den Broek, Utrecht University - Utrecht, The Netherlands
       Zhongming Zhao, Vanderbilt University / Medical Center, USA 
       Hua Xu, Vanderbilt University/School of Medicine, The Netherlands
     GLOBAL HEALTH 2016 Technical Program Committee
     Charlie Abela, University of Malta - Msida, Malta
       Sachiyo  Aburatani, Computational Biology Research Center - National Institute of Advanced  Industrial Science and Technology, Japan
       Giner  Alor Hernández, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba - Veracruz, México
       Thierry  Badard, Centre for Research in Geomatics - Laval University, Canada
       Caroline  Barelle, MAAP/ Motion Analysis And Performance, France / National Technical University  of Athens, Greece
       Hrvoje Belani, Croatian  Health Insurance Fund - Zagreb,   Croatia
       Veselka  Boeva, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
       Mounir  Bousbia-Salah, Badji Mokhtar University - Annaba, Algeria
       Pamela Briggs, School of Life Sciences / Northumbria University,  UK
       Sabin-Corneliu  Buraga, "A. I. Cuza" University, Romania
       Rita  Casadio, Biocomputing Group - University of Bologna, Italy
       Bolin  Chen, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
       Dechang  Chen, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences - Bethesda, USA
       Po-Hsun  Cheng, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
       Chih-Lin Chi, University of Minnesota-Twin  Cities, USA
       Jim Cimino, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
       Meyrick Chow, Tung Wah College, Hong Kong
       Diane  Cook, Washington State University, USA
       Michel  Cotsaftis, LACSC/ECE - Paris, France
       Shirley Coyle, Centre for Sensor Web Technologies / Dublin City  University, Ireland
       Anna  Cysewska-Sobusiak, Poznan University of Technology, Poland
       Kevin  Daimi, University of Detroit Mercy, USA
       Stefan  J. Darmoni, Rouen University Hospital, France
       Lucio Tommaso De Paolis, University    of Salento, Italy
       M. Jamal Deen,  McMaster University - Hamilton, Canada
       Wolfgang  Deiters, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST,  Germany
       Steven  A. Demurjian, University of Connecticut, USA
       Gayo  Diallo, University of Bordeaux, France
       Elton  Domnori, Epoka University - Tirana, Albania
       Julie Doyle, Dundalk Institute of Technology - Dundalk, Ireland
       Ye  Duan, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
       Marwan Dwairy, Cross-Cultural Researcher - Nazerat Ellit, Israel
       Zakaria  Elberrichi, Djillali Liabes University, Algeria
       Frank Emmert-Streib, Tampere University of Technology,  Finland
       Paul  Fergus, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
       Carlos  Fernández-Llatas, ITACA Institute - Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
       Aleksandra Fucic, Institute for Medical Research and Occupational  Health - Zagreb, Croatia 
       Xiaohing  Gao, Middlesex University, UK 
       Catherine  Garbay, CNRS | Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
       Nuno M. Garcia, Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies -   Lisbon, Portugal
       Bela  Genge, Petru Maior University of Tg. Mures, Romania
       Gersende  Georg, Haute Autorité de Santé, Paris, France
       Heidi  Gilstad, Faculty of Medicine - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU),  Norway
          Sylvain Giroux, Université de    Sherbrooke, Canada
       David  Greenhalgh, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
       Yi-Ke  Guo, Imperial College London, UK
       Kasper  Hallenborg, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, Denmark
       Martha Harrell, Institute of Mathematical Physics  (IMP) - Williamsburg, USA
       Harry  Stewart Hochheiser, University of Pittsburgh, USA
       Vasant  Honavar, Iowa State University - Ames, USA
       Dimitar  Hristovski, Medical Faculty - University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
       Jun  (Luke) Huan, The university of Kansas, USA
       Chun-Hsi  Huang, University of Connecticut, USA
       Kun  Huang, Ohio State University, USA
       Hannele  Hyppönen, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland
       Hamidah  Ibrahim, Universiti Putra, Malaysia
       Yoshiro  Imai, Kagawa University, Japan
       Ivan  Evgeniev Ivanov, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
       Ravi  Janardan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
       Siddhartha Jonnalagadda, Northwestern    University, USA
       Jose  M. Juarez, University of Murcia, Spain 
       Youna  Jung, Virginia Military Institute, USA
       Mehmed  Kantardzic, University of Louisville, USA
       Ayten Karataş, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
       Anastasia  N. Kastania, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
       Okba  Kazar, Biskra University, Algeria
       Hassan  M. Khachfe, Lebanese International University, Lebanon
       Frank  Klawonn, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research - Braunschweig, Germany
       Peter  Kokol, University of Maribor, Slovenia
       Hiroshi Kondoh, Tottori University | Tottori  University Hospital, Japan
       Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Health Systems and Innovation Cluster, World   Health Organization - Geneva, Switzerland
       Antonio Lanatà, University of Pisa, Italy
       Lenka  Lhotska, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
       Tao  Li, Florida International University, USA
       Yaohang  Li, Old Dominion University, USA
       Marius  George Linguraru, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, USA
       Igor Ljubi, University College  for Applied Computer Engineering - Zagreb, Croatia
       Irvin  Hussein López Nava, INAOE, Mexico
       Samia  Loucif, ALHOSN University, UAE
       Emilio  Luque, University Autonoma of Barcelona (UAB), Spain
       Zhiyuan  Luo, Royal, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
       Malika  Mahoui, IUPUI - Indianapolis, USA
       Stefano  Mariani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
       Roque  Marin Morales, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
       Elio  Masciari, ICAR-CNR, Italy
       Massimiliano  Masi, Tiani “Spirit” GmbH, Austria
       Christopher  Mayer, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Austria
       Sepideh  Mazrouee, University of California - Los Angeles, USA
       Jochen  Meyer, OFFIS Institute for Computer Science, Germany
       Christo  El Morr, York University, Canada 
       Kazumi Nakamatsu, University of Hyogo, Japan
       Hongbo  Ni, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
       Brendan O’Flynn, Tyndall National Institute, Ireland
       Michael Ochs, The College of New Jersey, USA
       Carlos Oberdan Rolim, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul  (UFRGS), Brazil
       Chika Oshima, Saga University, Japan
       Julien Penders, imec / Holst Centre, The Netherlands
       Marek  Penhaker, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
       George Perry, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
       Cinzia  Pizzi, University of Padova, Italy
       Miodrag  Potkonjak, University of California - Los Angeles, USA 
       David  Riaño, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
       Carsten Röcker, Fraunhofer IOSB-INA,  Germany
       Alejandro  Rodríguez González, Centre for Biotechnology and Plant Genomics - UPM-INIA,  Spain
       Marcos  A. Rodrigues, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
       Seyed  Ali Rokni, Washington State University, USA
       Alan  Ruttenberg, School of Dental Medicine - University at Buffalo, USA
       Saqib  Saeed, Bahria University Islamabad, Pakistan
       Maytham  Safar, Focus Consultancy, Kuwait
       Antonio  J. Salazar E., Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering - Biomedical  Research Center, Portugal
       Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem, Ain Shams University Abbasia-  Cairo Egypt
       Nickolas  S. Sapidis, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
       Majid  Sarrafzadeh, UCLA, USA
       Matthieu-P.  Schapranow, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
       Shunji Shimizu, Tokyo  University of Science - Suwa,   Japan
       Jatinder  Singh, University of Cambridge, UK
       Miki  Sirola, Aalto University, Finland
       Bin  Song, Oracle, Inc., USA
       Nathalie  Souf, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), France
       Daniel Steffen, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence  (DFKI) GmbH - Kaiserslautern, Germany
       Maria  Taboada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
       Adel  Taweel, King's College London, UK 
       Dimitar  Tcharaktchiev, Medical University - Sofia, Bulgaria
       Chrisa Tsinaraki, European Union - Joint Research  Center (JRC), Italy
       Alexey  Tsymbal, Siemens AG, Germany
       Hayato Uchida, University of Hyogo, Japan
       Lorna  Uden, Staffordshire University, UK
       Ugo  Vaccaro, University of Salerno, Italy
       Aristides  Vagelatos, Computer Technology Institute and Press "Diophantus",  Greece
       Egon L. van den Broek, Utrecht University - Utrecht, The Netherlands
       Jari  Veijalainen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
       Pierangelo  Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
       Brijesh  Verma, Central Queensland University, Australia
       Dongwen  Wang, University of Rochester Medical Center, USA
       Liangjiang  Wang, Clemson University - Greenwood, USA
       Chunhua  Weng, Columbia University, USA
       Szymon  Wilk, Institute of Computing Science - Poznan University of Technology, Poland
       Mudasser  F. Wyne, National University, San Diego, USA
       Hua Xu, Vanderbilt University/School of Medicine, The Netherlands
       Mingjing Yang, University of Ulster, UK
       Juan Ye, University of St Andrews, UK
       Sule  Yildirim-Yayilgan, Gjøvik University College, Norway
       Wang  Yu-Ping, Tulane University - New Orleans, USA
       Constantin-Bala  Zamfirescu, "Lucian Blaga" Univ. of Sibiu, Romania
       Erliang Zeng, University of    South Dakota, USA
       Zhongming  Zhao, Vanderbilt University / Medical Center, USA
       Jie  Zheng, Perelman School of Medicine - University of Pennsylvania, USA
       Wei  Zhong, University of South Carolina Upstate - Spartanburg, USA
       Qiang  Zhu, University of Michigan, USA
       Bin  Zhou, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA