The Director-General of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of the Emergency Committee under Article 48 of the International Health Regulations in connection with the current outbreak of monkeypox virus. The meeting will take place on June 23, 2022 and is open only to members and advisors of the Emergency Committee.
The objectives of this meeting are to provide views to the Director-General of the World Health Organization on whether the event constitutes a public health emergency of international concern and also on proposed possible interim recommendations.
attendance list
Meat
Dr. Jean-Marie Oko Bailey – Public Health Adviser, National of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Former Director of the Department of Vaccines and Immunization, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland (retired)
Co-Chair
Dr. Nicola Low – Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland
other members
Dr. Daniel Bausch – Senior Director, Emerging Threats and Global Health Security, FIND, Global Diagnostic Alliance, Switzerland
Clarissa Damaso – Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Viruses, Carlos Chagas Filho Institute for Biophysics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. Inger Damon (Rapporteur) – Director, Division of Pathogenesis and High Outcome Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Dr Jake Dunning – Senior Research Fellow, Center for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Ousmane Faye – Head of the Virology Unit, Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal
Dr. Rinat Maksutov – Director General, Federal Budget Research Foundation – State Research Center for Virology and Biotechnology, Federal Service for Monitoring Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare, Russian Federation
Dr. Othman Molouk – Head of Access to Diagnostics and Medicines, International Coalition for Treatment Preparedness, Morocco
Dr. Demi Ogwena – Head of Infectious Diseases Unit, Okoluberi General Hospital, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa, Nigeria
Dr. Nitaya Phanovak – Executive Director, Institute for HIV Research and Innovation, Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Anne Rimwin – Professor of Epidemiology and Gordon Levin Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Dr. Tomoya Saito – Director of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan
Dr. Catherine Summermatter – Head of the Center for Biosafety and General Manager of BSL3, Institute of Infectious Diseases, University of Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Daniel Tarantola – Assistant Research Professor, Institute for Global Health Inequality, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, USA and Former Director of the Department of Vaccines and Immunization, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland (retired)
Dr. Zunyou Wu Chief Epidemiologist, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Director of HIV Prevention Division, NCAIDS/China CDC, China and Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
Consultants
Dr. Steve Ahoka – Head of the Department of Virology, National Institute for Biomedical Research, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Dr. Dimitri Daskalakis – Director of the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Dr. Clayton Eusebio de Lima – Senior Adviser to Key Communities and Populations, Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Greg Gonsalves – Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Yale Institute for Global Health, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, USA
David Heyman – Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK; Head of the Center for Global Health Security, Chatham House, London, United kingdom; And the Former Assistant Director-General for Health Security, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland (retired)
Dr. Wanda Markotter – Director of the Center for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, School of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Gianfranco Spitteri – Head of Epidemic Intelligence Group, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden
Dr Theresa Tam – Director of Public Health, Public Health Canada, Canada
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