Papua New Guinea

Yolarnie has spent the last ten years working along the Kikori River, the fifth largest river in Papua New Guinea. She began as a master's student with the University of Canberra, Australia, conducting biological research on the endangered freshwater pig-nosed turtle and the efficacy of community-led conservation initiatives on its declining population. Currently, Yolarnie is the Director of the Piku Biodiversity Network, an organization she cofounded in 2017, to ensure the sustainability of biodiversity conservation efforts in the area. The organization has projects for the pig-nosed turtle, two species of threatened inshore dolphins, and 41 species of sharks and rays, as well as community environmental education and advocacy programs.

She is currently assisting local leaders of climate impact communities in the Kikori Delta to educate communities and seek assistance to build climate resilient villages. Prior to her current job, Yolarnie was an intern biologist with the Papua New Guinea Institute of Biological Research, studying sea cucumbers and the efficacy of community management areas. Yolarnie graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in science majoring in marine biology.

Yolarnie is an alumna of the International Visitor Leadership Program and the Fulbright Foreign Student Program.

Terence Mark is a medical doctor and global health researcher from Papua New Guinea . He is working in the interdisciplinary field of translational and implementation science focusing on closing the "Know-Do Gap" between a medical science discovery and its application for most marginalized communities, especially the "bottom billion" of the Western Pacific. Currently, he is an adjunct clinical research fellow at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR). He researches the social determinants of health including looking for experimental global health care delivery solutions in reaching isolated tribal communities in his native Papua New Guinea. He cofounded a local grassroots nonprofit organization that is championing quality health care access for "last

mile" communities in Papua New Guinea using the community health worker (CHW) platform.

Terence's research aims at tackling child morbidity and mortality in Papua New Guinea by assessing the feasibility of a low- cost, vignette-driven, culturally sensitive, and integrated community case management (ICCM) training for CHWs caring for children under the age of five. He plans to expand the portfolio of CHW training by integrating village-level climate change surveillance as early warning systems to assist community initiatives for natural disaster preparation and mitigation. Moreover, Terence researches the dynamic interactions between endemic and emerging diseases and their interplay with climate change producing harmful effects from evolving disease vector behavior to local food security concerns to overall behavioral and societal change. Apart from these roles, he is a keen social enterprise enthusiast, seeing it as an agile and relevant approach to tackling today's most challenging and complex issues that have no historical precedents.

Terence graduated from the University of Papua New Guinea School of Medicine and Health Sciences (UPNGSMHS) in 2012 and has served in various clinical roles around Papua New Guinea. He has had industry experience in global health and security with International SOS. He obtained a master's degree in global health from Harvard Medical School through a Fulbright scholarship.