One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP)
The One Health advisory group for Quadripartite organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

Members Term I

Co-chairs

Professor Wanda Markotter

Director, Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Professor Wanda Markotter holds a PhD in Virology and started her academic career at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, in 2004.

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Professor Thomas Mettenleiter

President (retired) of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany

Dr. Thomas C. Mettenleiter studied biology and earned his doctorate in molecular genetics at the Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen.

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Rapporteur

Dr Dominique Charron

Visiting Professor, One Health Institute, University of Guelph, Canada

Dr Dominique Charron is Vice-President, Programs and Partnerships at Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), where she leads research for development programming strategy and builds partnerships toward supporting knowledge and innovation in developing regions, led by researchers in those regions.

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OHHLEP members

Wiku Bakti Adisasmito

Professor in Health Policy, University of Indonesia, Indonesia

Dr Casey Barton Behravesh

Director of the One Health Office at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States of America

Professor Salome Bukachi

Associate Professor of Anthropology, at the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Professor Natalia Cediel

Associate Professor and Researcher, Universidad de La Salle, Colombia

Janice Ciacci-Zanella

Veterinarian researcher in the area of Animal Virology and Director General of Swine and Poultry Research Center, EMBRAPA, Brazil

Dr Osman Dar

Consultant in Global Public Health, Public Health England / Director - One Health Project, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Pakistan

Baptiste Dungu

Chief Executive Officer, Onderstepoort Biological Products SOC (OBP), South Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Margaret Khaitsa

Professor of International Veterinary Epidemiology, Mississippi State University, Uganda

Dr Catherine Machalaba

Planetary Health Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, USA

Professor Serge Morand

Director of Research, CNRS, Montpellier University, France

Lei Zhou

Chief of Branch for Emerging Infectious Disease, China CDC, People’s Republic of China

Salama Al Muhairi

Director of Veterinary Laboratories Division, Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, United Arab Emirates

Pépé Bilivogui

Technical Consultant, Project REDISSE (World Bank/OOAS), Guinea

Natalia Casas

National Zoonoses Coordinator, Ministry of Health of Argentina, Argentina

Abhishek Chaudhary

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India

Andrew Alexander Cunningham

Deputy Director of Science, Zoological Society of London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Professor Nitish Debnath

Team Lead, Fleming Fund Country Grant to Bangladesh, DAI Global, LLC - National Coordinator One Health Bangladesh, Bangladesh

Professor Elmoubasher Farag

Clinical Associate Professor, Vice President for Medical and Health Sciences Office, Qatar university, Doha, Qatar

Professor David Hayman

Professor of Infectious Disease Ecology, Massey University, New Zealand

Prof John S. Mackenzie

Emeritus Professor, Curtin University, Perth, Australia

Vyacheslav Smolenskiy

Deputy Head, Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing (Rospotrebnadzor), Russian Federation