Judith Farquhar is currently the Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and in the College, Emerita, at the University of Chicago. Trained as a medical anthropologist, Farquhar’s research focuses on traditional Chinese medicine and its social and cultural contexts. She authored Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (1994), which examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China, as well as five other books, the most recent being A Way of Life: Things, Thought and Action in Chinese Medicine (2020).

Dr. Mai Uchida, MD is the Director of Pediatric Depression at Massachusetts General Hospital, a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, neuroimaging researcher, and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She is an international advocate for mental health, scientific literacy, and gender equality.