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Members and Advisers
Members
Dr Amadou Alpha Sall
email: stag-ih-secretariat@who.int
Biography
Dr Amadou A Sall is the CEO of Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal and director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic fever. He has been chairman of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network and a member of the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness and Innovation (CEPI) Scientific Advisory Board.
Dr Sall is a virologist with a PhD in Public health. He is an expert in epidemics response and control more specifically for arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers (Ebola, Zika, Yellow fever…) and high consequence pathogens.
Dr Sall is member of several expert committees for WHO (GOARN, TDR, SAGE, STAG-IH…) and OIE. Dr Sall is the co-chair of the COVID-19 laboratory technical working group of Africa Center for Disease Control and member of the Africa Union AFTCOR steering Committee as well as the Senegalese Committee for COVID-19. He is the chairman of the Pasteur Network.
Advisers
Dr Emily Jentes, PhD, MPH
CDR, USPHS, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
Dr J. Erin Staples
Medical Epidemiologist at Arboviral Disease Branch, Division of Vector-borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America