The ISAT Oversight Committees
Our ISAT Oversight Committees play an important role in reviewing ISAT applications from health professions education institutions across the globe. Each Oversight Committee consists of representatives from institutions which have the knowledge and practice in social accountability. To broaden the reach of the ISAT beyond English-speaking institutions, we have developed Oversight Committees to review applications in the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese and French. We extend our gratitude to all Oversight Committee members who volunteer their time and expertise, in the pursuit of developing socially accountable institutions.
Bjorg Palsdottir
THEnet, Belgium
CO-CHAIR
Björg Pálsdóttir is co-founder and CEO of the Training for Health Equity Network: THEnet, a global partnership of health workforce education institutions committed to reducing health inequities and increasing social accountability. She is the project lead in the USAID-funded Local Health System Sustainability Project’s work on social determinants of health and human resources for health. Björg is the technical lead of a Working Group on Equity at the Data and Evidence Hub of the World Health Organization and member of the Africa – Europe Foundation’s Strategy Group on Health. She participated in strategy development for WHO’s Global Strategy on HRH2030 and was commissioned to write a policy brief on education for the UN High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth. Prior to founding THEnet, she co-founded the Center for Global Health at New York University. Björg serves as a consultant to international organizations and governments and has published numerous articles and book chapters.
Julia Mattingly
Social Mission Alliance, USA
CO-CHAIR
Julia Mattingly is a Senior Research Assistant at the Social Mission Alliance.
Julia Mattingly is a Public Policy Ph.D. Candidate at GW’s Trachtenberg School. Her research interests include rural & underserved health workforce development, medical school curriculum, clinical training, and healthcare program evaluation. She recently graduated from the University of Louisville in Kentucky, with a BA in Rural Health and Political Science. Through mentored research at UofL, Ms. Mattingly studied the factors that influence clinicians to choose to practice in rural areas, in addition to evaluating the efficacy of loan repayment programs in Kentucky.
Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla Elsayed
University of Limerick, Ireland
Dr. Mohamed El Hassan Abdalla EL Sayed has memberships and affiliations to regional and international organizations work in Health Professions Education such as the Network-TUFH, International Reference Group on Social Accountability of Medical Schools, Association of Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region and the Society of Cost and Value in Health Professions Education. His publications and research interests in Medical Education are in the areas of social accountability, Teaching and learning, Accreditation and Cost and Value.
William P. Burdick
TUFH, USA
William Burdick, MD, MSEd, is Secretary General of The Network: Towards Unity for Health, an organization of community oriented health professions schools and Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. As the former Vice President for Education at FAIMER, he was responsible for creation of global faculty development programs for health professions educators. He has received awards for excellence in teaching, including the Lindbach Award and the Trustees Award in his capacity as Professor of Emergency Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. A graduate of Oberlin College, Weill Cornell University College of Medicine, and University of Pennsylvania, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine and is certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine and American Board of Internal Medicine.
Titi Savitri Prihatiningsih
UGM, Indonesia
Prof Dr. Titi Savitri Prihatiningsih, MA, MMedEd, PhD
Professor in Medical Education and Bioethics at the Department of Medical
Education and Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine – Public Health and Nursing,
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
She is currently the President of South East Asia Regional Association of Medical Education (SEARAME) from 2018-2025 and Member of the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME) Executive Council from 2018-2025 . She has been involved in medical education development since 1988. Her main interest is in curriculum development, quality assurance and medical education regulation. She is a leading figure in medical education in Indonesia.
She served as the secretary to the Indonesian Association of Medical Schools from 2003-2011 and she started the Indonesian Journal of Medical Education, she chaired the national working group to formulate Standards of Medical Doctors and Standards of Professional Education for Medical Doctors in Indonesia in 2004-2006 and 2017-2020. She was also involved in the development of ASEAN University Network for Quality Assurance (AUNQA) Guidelines for External Quality Assessment at Programme Level (2005-2012) and served as member of AUNQA Executive Committee from 2013-2017. She was the member of National Board of Educational Standards under the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education from 2014-2019. She has been the International Team of Indonesian Accreditation Agency for Higher Education in Health (IAAHEH) (2015-now) and she has been instrumental in preparing IAAHEH moving to qualitative instruments. She is member of International Social
Accountability and Accreditation Think Tank (ISATT) (2021-now).
At her institution, she initiated the Department of Medical Education and Masters Programme in Medical Education – the first in Indonesia – in 2006. She was the chair of Curriculum Team (2005-2008). She was the Director of NPT Project – A collaborative Project between Faculty of Medicine UGM and Maastricht Medical School and Groningen Medical School. She also served as the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and then the Dean from 2008-2012. At the national level, she chaired the Educational Division of Indonesian Medical Association and she was the Chair of the Education Division of Indonesian Association of Medical Education Institution (AIPKI). Currently She is the Vice Chair of College of Medicine Indonesia (2025-2028) and Indonesian Delegate Member of ASEAN Joint Coordinating Committee for Medical Practitioner (2025).
She has published around 100 scientific articles and books nationally and internationally.
Areas of expertise: curriculum development dan quality assurance in health profession education, social accountability and accreditation
Prattama Santoso Utomo
Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Prattama Santoso Utomo
MD (UGM) , MHPEd (UWA), IFI (Philadelphia)
Prattama (Tama) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Education and Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada (FMPHN UGM). He completed a Master of Health Professions Education from The University of Western Australia in 2018, and obtained his MD in 2013 from UGM. He practices as an emergency physician. He completed a FAIMER Philadelphia Fellowship (Year 2019). He is currently undertaking his PhD in Health Professions Education at the
University of Rochester, NY, USA.
Prattama was a member of the Undergraduate Medicine Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate Medicine Curriculum Evaluation Team, Student Activity and Support Team, Quality Assurance Team of Master of Medical and Health Professions Education,
and Learning Resource Coordinator of Clinical Skills Laboratory in FMPHN UGM. As the Learning Resources Coordinator, Prattama supervised the LMS development, simulation-based learning environment, and educational videos for clinical skills learning.
At the national level, Prattama provides training and technical assistance in educational approaches to medical and health professions schools in Indonesia and served as a Scientific Division Member of the Indonesian College of Health Professions Education (I AM HPE). He is also involved in international organizations such as the International FAIMER Institute (as a global faculty and project advisor) and The Network: Towards Unity For Health (Advisory Board Member & ISAT Oversight Committee Member). Prattama was a managing editor of The Indonesian Journal of Medical Education (Jurnal Pendidikan Kedokteran Indonesia). His scientific publications and research interests include peer-assisted learning, simulation-based learning, clinical skills learning, socially accountable medical education, and general medicine.
Rukhsana Zuberi
Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Professor Emerita, Aga Khan University (Pakistan)
Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (2019)
Professor Rukhsana Zuberi is an internationally recognized leader in medical education with over four decades of experience advancing competency-based learning, faculty development, and social accountability in health professions education. At Aga Khan University, she has served in numerous leadership roles, including Associate Dean for Education, Founding Interim Director of the Center for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), and Chair of multiple curriculum and strategic planning committees.
She pioneered Pakistan’s first Master of Health Professions Education (MHPE) and Advanced Diploma programs, and was instrumental in establishing Family Medicine as an academic discipline in the country.
Professor Zuberi is a member of the Aspire Board and Aspire Panel on Student Assessment (AMEE) and has chaired several national curriculum committees. Her contributions have been recognized with the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, Lifetime Achievement Award in Medical Education, and multiple institutional honors for excellence in teaching and leadership.
Emily Groot
NOSM University
Dr. Emily Groot is a public health physician based in Sudbury, Ontario, where she serves as the Associate Medical Officer of Health at Public Health Sudbury & Districts. In addition to her clinical work, Emily is an associate professor and director of the PHPM residency program at NOSM University, with a cross-appointment as an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda.
