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

Doctor Yagob Yousef Al-Mazrou

Biography

SAGE Member since November 2012
Secretary General - Health Services Council of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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 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

Professor Terry Nolan

Biography

SAGE Member since November 2012
Head of Melbourne School of Population Health

Professor Katherine O'Brien

Biography

SAGE Member since November 2012
Professor - Department of International Health & Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, United States of America

Doctor Paba Palihawadana

Biography

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

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

April 2013

The latest SAGE meeting took place on the 9-11 April 2013.

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.