President Prof. Claudio Colosio Professor, Department of Health Sciences of the University of Milan and International Centre for Rural Health of the S. Paolo Hospital of Milano, Italy     President Elect Prof. Istvan Szilard Professor, Department of Operational Medicine, University of Pécs Medical School, Chair of Clinical Infectology and Migration Health, Pécs, Hungary     Immediate Past President Dr. Shuzo Shintani Past President of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine (JARM), Honorary Director, JA Toride Medical Center, Ibaraki 302-0022, Japan      Honorary President Dr. Ashok Vikhe Patil Executive Chairman, Pravara Rural Education Society, DIST-AHMEDNAGAR, India     Past President Prof. Hans-Joachim Hannich Professor, University of Greifswald, Institute for Medical Psychology, Greifswald, Germany     Vice President Dr. Kyeong Soo Lee Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine & Public Health, Yeungnam University College of Medicine, Daegu, Republic of Korea     Vice President Prof. Peter Lundqvist Professor, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Work Science, Business Economic & Environmental Psychology, Alnarp, Sweden     Vice President Prof. Petar Bulat Professor, University of Belgrade Faculty of Medicine & Serbian Institute of Occupational Health, Belgrade, Serbia     Secretary General Dr. Satoshi Izawa Board Member of JARM, Clinical Adviser, Saku Central Hospital, Nagano, Japan