WHO Secretariat has received and assessed all the Declaration of Interest submitted by the participating experts. In accordance with WHO’s policy, all declared interests, even if they do not give rise to a conflict of interest that would warrant partial or total exclusion of the expert concerned, will be disclosed within the committee at the beginning of the meeting so that other members are aware of them.
Members and Advisers
Members
Dr Kalpana Baruah
Joint Director, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India
Dr Mark Gershamn
Medical Epidemiologist, Travellers’ Health Branch, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America
Susan Henry
Principal Consultant, Third Element Consulting, and Risk & Governance Discipline Program Leader, Emergency Management Australia (under contract), Attorney General’s Dept., Australia
Dr Amr Mohamed Kandeel
Chief, Preventive and Endemic Diseases Sector, Ministry of Health and Population, Egypt
Professor Mapatano Mala Ali
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Adelle Chang On
Trinidad and Tobago - County Medical Officer of Health, Ministry of Health, Trinidad and Tobago
Dr Oscar Daniel Salomón
Director of the National Institute of Tropical Medicine, Argentina
Dr Néstor Sosa
Director General, Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudios para la Salud (ICGES), Panama
Dr Oyewale Tomori
Professor of Virology, Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State, Nigeria
Dr Pedro Fernando da Costa Vasconcelos
Director, Evandro Chagas Institute; Director, National Reference Laboratory for Arboviruses; and Director, National Institute for Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers, Ananindeua, Brazil
Dr Herve Zeller
Senior expert and Head Emerging and Vector borne Disease Programme, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Sweden
Advisers
Dr Emily Jentes, PhD, MPH
CDR, USPHS, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Dr J. Erin Staples
Medical Epidemiologist at Arboviral Disease Branch, Division of Vector-borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America