International Advisory Committee

Jaffar Al-Tawfiq
Director, Accreditation and Infection Control
Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare
Saudi Arabia

Richard Alm
Chief Scientific Officer
CARB-X
United States

Kokou Alinon
Principal Technical Officer
Africa CDC
Ethiopia

Patrick Baffuto
Executive Vice President
Hybrid Healthcare Communications
United States

Arun Balajee
Senior Technical Advisor, Surveillance and Pandemic Preparedness
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria
United States

Gonzalo Bearman
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine - Division of Infectious Diseases
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States

Lucille Blumberg
Extraordinary Lecturer, Veterinary Tropical Diseases
National Institute For Communicable Disease
South Africa

Asha Bowen
Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at Perth Children’s Hospital and Head of the Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Team at Telethon Kids Institute
Australia

Sipho Dlamini
Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases
University of Cape Town
South Africa

Scott Dowell
Senior Advisor, Global Health Emergency Corps
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Nicolette du Plessis
Associate Professor and Head of the Paediatric Infectious Diseases Division of the Department of Paediatrics
University of Pretoria and Kalafong Hospital
South Africa

Abdulrazaq Habib
Professor Of Infectious & Tropical Diseases
Bayero University
Nigeria

Robert Heyderman
Head of the Research Department of Infection
Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London
United Kingdom

Alison Holmes
Professor of Infectious Diseases
Imperial College London and University of Liverpool
United Kingdom

Aamer Ikram
Chair Advisory Board for Training Programs in Epidemiology & Public Health Interventions Network
TEPHINET
Pakistan

Kassim Jimale
Vice President For Research And Development
Jamhuriya University Of Science And Technology
Mogadishu

Gagandeep Kang
Director: EDGE
Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation
India

Stefan Kaufmann
Director Emeritus
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology

Keith Klugman
Director
Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation
United States

Kyeng Mercy Tetuh
Epidemic Intelligence Unit Lead
Africa CDC
Cameroon

Ramanan Laxminarayan
Founder and President
One Health Trust
United States

David Lewis
Director/Conjoint Professor
Western Sydney Local Health District & University Of Sydney
Australia

Larry Lutwick
Retired, Professor Of Medicine
Mayo Clinic School Of Medicine
United States

Sadaf Lynes
Director of Collaborative Surveillance
Workforce and Health Emergencies
United Arab Emirates

Neelika Malavige
Professor
Uiversity of Sri Jayewardenepura
Sri Lanka

Helena Maltezou
Professor
National Public Health Organization
Greece

Ghassan Matar
Chairperson
American University Of Beirut
Lebanon

Julia Maxwell
Director of Disease Surveillance
International Society for Infectious Diseases
United States

Mark Miller
Executive VP; Chief Medical Officer
bioMérieux
France

Clemens Müller
Director: Global Medical Affairs
Takeda Pharmacueticals International AG
Switzerland

Mubarak Mustafa
Clinical Microbiologist
Karary University
Sudan

Eskild Petersen
Professor Emeritus of Infectious Diseases
Aarhus University
Denmark

David Patterson
Professor
National University of Singapore
Singapore

Natalia Pshenichnaya
Deputy Director for clinic and analytical work
Central Research Institute of Epidemiology
Russia

Annapaola Rizzoli
Head Of The Applied Ecology Unit of the Research and Innovation Centre
Edmund Mach Foundation
Australia

Douglas Scarsi
Senior Director, Client Services
Hybrid Healthcare Communications
United States

Yenew Kebede Tebeje
Head, Division of Laboratory Systems & Networks, Africa CDC
Ethiopia

Rachel Thomson
Professor
University of Queensland
Australia

George Varghese
Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases
Christian Medical College
India

William Wint
MD and Senior Analyst
Environmental Research Group Oxford Ltd
United Kingdom

Constance Walyaro
Executive Committee & Co-Chair the Emerging Leaders in International Infectious Diseases
International Society for Infectious Diseases
Kenya

Sean Wasserman
Clinical Academic
St George's, University Of London
United Kingdom