Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals

Current SAGE members

Professor Helen Rees (Chair)

Biography

SAGE Member since 2005, SAGE Chair since 2010
Executive Director - Reproductive Health Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Professor Jon S. Abramson

Biography

SAGE Member since 2009
Chair - Department of Paediatrics, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, United States of America

Professor Narendra K. Arora

Biography

SAGE Member since 2010
Executive Director - International Clinical Epidemiology Network, India

Professor Zulfiqar A. Bhutta

Biography

SAGE Member since 2009
Chair - Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Pakistan

Professor David Durrheim

Biography

SAGE Member since 2009
Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Newcastle and Director - Health Protection, Hunter New England Area Health Service, Australia

Doctor El Tayeb Ahmed El Sayed,

Biography

SAGE Member since 2011
Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health and Emergency, Federal Ministry of Health, Sudan
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Professor Juhani Eskola

Biography

SAGE Member since 2009
Deputy Director General - National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

Professor J Peter Figueroa

Biography

SAGE Member since 2009
Consultant - Public Health, Epidemiology and HIV, Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, University of the West Indies, Jamaica

Doctor Xiaofeng Liang

Biography

SAGE Member since 2008
Deputy Director-General, CDC, China

Professor Elizabeth Miller

Biography

SAGE Member since 2007
Head - Immunization Department, Health Protection Agency, Center for Infections, United Kingdom

Doctor Paba Palihawadana

Biography

SAGE Member since 2011
Chief Epidemiologist, Director, Central Epidemiological Unit, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Professor Arthur L. Reingold (Vice-Chair)

Biography

SAGE Member since 2005, Vice-Chair since 2011
Head - Division of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America

Professor Claire-Anne Siegrist

Biography

SAGE Member since 2010
Head - Vaccinology and Immunology Unit, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland

Doctor Piyanit Tharmaphornpilas

Biography

SAGE Member since 2010
Manager - National Immunization Program, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Professor Oyewale Tomori

Biography

SAGE Member since 2009
Professor - Virology, Redeemer's University, Nigeria

Next meeting

Next SAGE meeting

The next SAGE meeting will take place on the 6-8 November 2012. A draft agenda will be made available nearer the time.

Future meetings

Previous meetings

Regional Technical Advisory Groups on Immunization

National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups

External review

Report on immunization advisory committees as presented at the 17-18 April 2007 SAGE meeting by an independent review team.