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Peter A. Clark, S.J., Ph.D. is Director of the Institute of Clinical Bioethics and Professor of Medical Ethics at Saint Joseph's University. As an internationally known scholar and clinical bioethicist, he has authored more than 150 journal articles and several books in the field of medical ethics and bioethics, and played an influential role in developing and updating healthcare ethics policies at healthcare organizations and ethics education for medical interns and residents at teaching hospitals. Fr. Clark is a bioethics consultant and a member of ethics committees at many hospitals, including, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, Jefferson Health Northeast-Torresdale Hospital, Frankford Hospital, Lower Bucks Hospital, Abington Hospital, Trinity East Health System, Mercy Hospital, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Nazareth Hospital, St. Mary's Medical Center, St. Francis Hospital, Catholic Charities of Maryland, Saint Agnes Hospital and Caritas Baby Hospital in Palestine. 
Areas of expertise: Catholic bioethics, safe injection sites, end-of-life issues, health care management, religion and health care reform, beginning-of-life issues, medical futility, organ transplantation, assisted reproductive technologies, public health issues

Mariya Munir is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). She earned her undergraduate degree in Biotechnology (2008) and a master’s degree (2010) and a Ph.D. (2014) in Environmental Engineering from Michigan State University. She then joined Virginia Tech as a Postdoctoral Researcher studying the effect of humidity on influenza A virus transmissibility in the environment. After joining UNC Charlotte in 2016, she established the Environmental Microbiology lab in CEE department located at EPIC building. Her primary research interest is in detection, removal, and inactivation of emerging biological contaminants in water and wastewater systems.
Her research focuses on four main area: Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment, Sustainable water/wastewater treatment, Metagenomics and Microbial Water Quality and Public Health related issues. Her experience on application of environmental microbiology techniques in studying antibiotic resistance bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes in wastewater treatment plants provides a strong background for her research on COVID-19 pandemic. Currently, she is involved in tracking SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater treatment plants in Charlotte and the UNC Charlotte campus wastewater COVID-19 surveillance study.