Ming-Cheng M. Lo is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis, USA. Lo's research addresses the cultures of democracy in East Asia, as well as the sense-making processes regarding illnesses, disasters, and cultural traumas.

Yu-Yueh Tsai is Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, working in the fields of medical sociology, science, technology, and society (STS), and race and ethnicity studies.

Michael Shiyung Liu is Distinguish Professor of the History of Science and Medicine at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Professor of History affiliated to the Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research interests include Japanese colonial medicine, East Asian environmental history, and modern history of public health in East Asia.