Advisors and special contributors for recent LernerMedia projects include:

Stephen A. Berger is the developer of GIDEON(Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Network), the world's premier global infectious diseases database. Widely used and cited by the World Health Organization (WHO), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), PROMED, and infectious disease specialists, GIDEON one is the most trusted and best known global resources related to infectious disease. In addition to serving on the GIDEON Board of Advisors,  Dr. Berger is currently affiliated with the Tel Aviv Medical Center as both Director of Geographic Medicine and of Clinical Microbiology. He also serves as Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Tel-Aviv School of Medicine. He has been awarded the New York Medical College Teaching Award 5 times. Dr. Berger is the author of numerous articles and books, including Introduction to Infectious Diseases, The Healthy Tourist., and Exotic Viral Diseases: A Global Guide.

Wallace S. Broecker, Newberry Professor of Geology, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University.  Dr. Broecker is a member of both the US National Academy of Science and the British Royal Society. In 1996, he received the National Science Medal. A member of the Columbia faculty since 1959, Dr. Broecker serves as the Newberry Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and as member of The Earth Institute Academic Committee. His ongoing research interests include paleoclimatology, ocean chemistry, isotope dating and other important facets of environmental science. He has authored or co-authored close to 500 journal articles,  textbooks, and books, including How to Build a Habitable Planet  (1987) and Fixing Climate (2008) with Robert Kunzig. Among a lengthy list of  respected honors and awards, Dr. Broecker is the recipient of the Alexander Agassiz Medal by the National Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Blue Planet Award,  the Swedish Crafoord Award, and has been honored by the  Geological Society of America and Geological Society of London.

James Corbett, Author and journalist, London, UK. James Corbett is a regular contributor to the The Observer and former London Correspondent of the English language Egyptian newspaper, Al Ahram Weekly. He is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and the University of London. In addition to political coverage, he is also writes on sports and culture and is the author of a history of the England football team England Expects (Aurum Press 2006).

Antonio Farina M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at  Universita' di Bologna and has served as Visiting Associate Professor, Showa University, Tokyo, Japan, Visiting Professor at the Woman & Infants’ Hospital Division of Prenatal and Special Testing, Providence, RI, and as a Research Fellow at New England Medical Center, Division of Genetics, Boston, MA.

Thomas Hayden is a journalist and lecturer at Stanford University. A former staff writer at both Newsweek and US News & World Report. his writing appears Nature, National Geographic, and other respected publications. 

Joseph Patterson Hyder, J.D. is the managing partner for the Hyder Law Group in Jacksonville, Florida. An honors  graduate with a degree in history from Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, and was editor-in-chief Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy at the University of Tennessee Collage of Law. He has written extensively on international treaties and political issues

Alexander I. Ioffe,Senior Scientist, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia. Alexander I. Ioffe is a physicist who serves as Senior Scientist, Geological Institute. Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia. Dr. Ioffe has served as contributing advisor on a number of projects related to science and the environment.

David T. King, Jr., is a Professor, Dept. of Geology, Auburn University. Dr. King's  research interests include the effect of asteroid and comet impact upon Earth history and the stratigraphic record. Dr. King has been honored as the outstanding science/math faculty member and as an Auburn Alumni Association outstanding teacher.

Christopher Lawrence is an author, professor of the history of medicine at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London , and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. Dr. Lawrence is a contributing advisor for Scientific Thought: In Context and was editor along with Steven Shapin at Harvard  of Science Incarnate: Historical Embodiments of Natural Knowledge (University Of Chicago Press, 1998)

Adeline Wilmoth Lerner (Ellie Lerner) is an undergraduate and serves as an intern at LernerMedia.

Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, J.D.  serves as the independent Executive Director for LernerMedia.™  She is the editor of several books including Global Viewpoints: Freedom of Expression. An honors graduate of Oglethorpe University, prior to law school she also worked as a field-certified archaeologist. As part of her graduate school studies in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University she lectured on the history of the Holocaust and she has written extensively on a range of legal, social, and science policy issues.

Alicia Cafferty Lerner is an independent author and editor. A graduate of University College, Dublin, Ireland (M.A.) and Auburn University, she is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, the National English Honors Society. She is editor of Global Viewpoints: Freedom of Expression. and other books on important global issues.

René Lynn, Department of Communications, San Antonio Independent School District. San Antonio, Texas. A graduate of the University of Texas School of Journalism, René Lynn is former journalist and media commentator who now works as a representative of the San Antonio Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas.

Lois N. Magner, Professor Emerita of History, Purdue University. She is the author of A History of Medicine.

Nancy E. Masters is a Distinguished Member in the International Association for Identification. She is also a long-standing member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Forensic Identification and a Fellow of the Fingerprint Society of Great Britain. In 2004 International Association for Identification awarded Masters the prestigious John A. Dondero Memorial Award, the IAI's highest honor.

Anna Marie Roos, Research Associate, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine. Oxford University. Oxford, England. Anna Marie Roos is an author and Research Associate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at Oxford University. She has previously served as a Visiting Fellow, Wellcome Unit for the History and Understanding of Medicine and as an Associate Professor in the Department of History at University of Minnesota.  She holds a Ph.D. in History and a B.A. in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. In addition to writing on contemporary topics regarding culture and medicine, she has published extensively in the history of science including Luminaries in the Natural World: The Sun and the Moon in England, 1400-1720 (Peter Lang, 2001) and The Salt of the Earth : Natural Philosophy, Medicine, and Chymistry in England, 1650-1750 (Brill Academic Pubishers, 2007).

Joachim Schummer, Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Karlsruhe, Germany, has served as a Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of Karlsruhe; Visiting Professor, University of South Carolina; Heisenberg Fellow, Technical University of Darmstadt; Visiting Fellow, Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Australian National University; and Visiting Professor, University of Sofia, Bulgaria. Writing on a range of topics from chemical warfare to environmental pollution, he was co-editor of The Public Image of Chemistry (World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2007). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Ethics, Law and Technology (Berkeley Electronic, CA, USA) .

Yavor Shopov is Professor of Geology & Geophysics University of Sofia, Bulgaria , Dr. Sopov has served as President, Commission on Physical Chemistry and Hydrogeology of Karst, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO).

Matthew Stanley, a 2006-2007 Member of the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,  Princeton University is also an Assistant Professor, Department of History Program in the History of Technology and Science at Iowa State University.  

Constance K. Stein, Associate Professor, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse, New York. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Dr. Stein is an Associate Professor, Pathology and Director of Cytogenetics, Assistant Director of Molecular Diagnostics, SUNY Upstate Medical University. Syracuse, New York.

Michael J Sullivan is Director of the Children's Cancer Research Group, Christ Church School of Medicine University of Otago Christchurch, New Zealand. A former Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics, Dr. Sullivan (FRACP DCH PhD) has also written on a variety of medical topics for general audiences.

John (Jack) P. Woodall. Director (retired), Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases,  Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1998-2008. Jack Woodall is a graduate of Cambridge University and received his Ph.D. from the world-renowned London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London University.  He served at the East African Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda for 7 years before joining The Rockefeller Foundation as director of its Belem Virus Laboratory in Brazil. Following 7 years there he was a Research Fellow at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, then head of the Arbovirus Laboratory, New York State Health Department for 3 years, when he was appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) San Juan Laboratories in Puerto Rico. In 1981, he moved to the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, first in the Laboratory Unit, and then as Epidemiologist in the Division of Health Statistics. On retirement from WHO after 13 years, he returned to direct the Arbovirus Laboratory for the New York State Health Department.  In 1998 he moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he is still based. He was a member of the WHO Gulf Emergency Task Force in support of the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) in Iraq, and Leader of the WHO delegation to the Third Review Conference on the Biological Weapons Convention; he has served as editor of various publications for PAHO, the World Health Organization (WHO), the Sabin Vaccine Institute, and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, and has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications listed on PubMed. Dr. Woodall was a co-founder of ProMED-mail, the online global outbreak early warning system of the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED) of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), where he continues as Associate Editor. He is a member of the Biological Weapons Working Group of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington DC, and Board member, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Washington DC.