Product Development for Vaccines Advisory Committee
PDVAC is an independent standing WHO committee of experts which provides external advice to WHO related to priority infectious disease pathogens, associated vaccine and monoclonal antibody product development approaches and related manufacturing and delivery technologies.

Members

PDVAC chair

Ruth Karron

Professor of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, United States

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PDVAC co-chair(s)

Raman Rao

Chief Executive Officer, Hilleman Labs

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Current PDVAC members

Mina Adel

Senior Technical Officer - Manufacturing Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property for Africa CDC

Isabelle Bekeredjian-Ding

Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene, University Hospital in Marburg (UKGM)

Marco Cavaleri

Head of the Office of Public Health Threats, EMA

Hannah Clapham

Assistant Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Dr Alejandro Cravioto

Professor, Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City

Willem Hanekom

Director of the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

William Hausdorff

Lead, Meningococcal Vaccine Development and Vaccine Value Propositions

Mark Jit

Chair and Professor, Department of Global and Environmental Health, New York University

Shaowei Li

Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Vaccinology, School of Life Sciences

Imran Nasir

Associate Professor and Vice Chair of Research at Aga Khan University

Faith Osier

Professor, Immunology and Vaccinology at Imperial College London

Mariagrazia Pizza

Visiting Professor, Imperial College, London

Professor Andrew Pollard

Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group and Ashall Professor of Infection and Immunity at the University of Oxford

Thanyawee Puthanakit

Professor in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University

Dr Senjuti Saha

Molecular microbiologist and an activist, Bangladesh

Melanie Saville

Chief Scientific Officer, PATH

Professor Kate Seib

Research Leader & Associate Director (Research)Institute for Glycomics Griffith University, Australia

Kamel Senouci

Director of the ADVAC course at the University of Geneva

Richard Siggers

Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Pittsburgh in the Pediatric Department of the Children’s Hospital

Previous PDVAC members

Bader Al Ruwahi

Director, Communicable Disease Surveillance and Control and EPI Manager, Ministry of Health, Oman

Klaus Cichutek

President, Paul-Ehrlich-Institut (PEI), Federal Institute for Vaccines and Biomedicines, Germany

Sinead Delany-Moretlwe

Medical Doctor, South Africa

Barney S. Graham

Deputy Director of the Vaccine Research Center, NIAID, NIH, United States

David C. Kaslow

Director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, United States Food and Drug Administration

Dr Gagandeep Kang

Professor and Laboratory Director, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory

Jerome H. Kim

Director General of the International Vaccine Institute, Switzerland/ United States

Claudio F. Lanata

Senior Researcher, Nutritional Research Institute, Peru

Beno Nyam Yakubu

Assistant Director, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria

Gustavo Santos

Research Scientist, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea.

Yiming Shao

Chief Expert on HIV/AIDS and Director of Virology and Immunology Division, Center for Disease Control, China

Kavita Singh

Director of the South Asia office, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative

Professor Peter Smith

Professor of Tropical Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene &Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Kingdom

Marian Wentworth

President and Chief Executive Officer, Management Sciences for Health, United States

Gerd Zettlmeissl

Independent Consultant