Chair

Dr Bart Haagmans

Associate professor at the Department of Viroscience of Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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Vice-Chair

Professor Cheryl Cohen

Professor in epidemiology at the University of the Witwatersrand and Head of the Centre for Respiratory Disease and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases

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Members

Dr Svein Rune Andersen

Scientific Director for Vaccines at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway

Prof Narendra Kumar Arora

Executive Director of The INCLEN Trust International, India

Prof Laith Abu-Raddad

Prof of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar, Cornell University, USA

Associate Professor Deborah Cromer

Lead of the Infection, Epidemiology and Policy Analytics Group at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales

Dr Irene Owusu Donkor

Fellow in the Epidemiology Department of the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR)

Professor Kanta Subbarao

Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology

Dr Hideki Hasegawa

Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, Japan

Dr Janine Kimpel

Group leader and deputy Director at the Institute of Virology at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

Prof Bette Liu

Professor at the Population Health Group at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) in Australia

Professor Elizabeth Miller

Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and a visiting professor at the Sackler School of Public Health at Tel Aviv University

Dr Sergio Nishioka

Technical Adviser for Capacity Building and Clinical Evaluation of COVID-19 vaccines

Dr Stanley Perlman

Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, and of Pediatrics at the University of Iowa

Prof Derek Smith

Director of the Center for Pathogen Evolution, and Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom

Dr Pragya Yadav

Director-in-Charge of the National Institute of One Health, Nagpur, and a Scientist ‘F’ at the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV), Pune, India

Contact us

TAG-CO-VAC Secretariat

World Health Organization

Avenue Appia 20
1211 Geneva
Switzerland 
Email: tagcovac@who.int