Strengthening health security by implementing the International Health Regulations (2005)

List of proposed members and advisers to International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee for Pneumonia due to the Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV

22 January 2020

Members

Stuart Blacksell

Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Dr Martin Cetron

Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America

Dr Supamit Chunsuttiwat

Advisor, Department of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand

Dr Vladimir Dubyanskiy

Department Head, Epizootic monitoring and forecasting, Stavropol Plague Control Research Institute, Russian Federation

Dr Didier Houssin

Advisor, Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire, de l'alimentation, de l'environnement et du travail, France

Dr Youngmee Jee

Advisor, Global Centre for Infectious Diseases, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Republic of Korea

Dr Ansa Jordaan

Chief, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization, Canada

Prof Wannian Liang

Head of Expert Panel, China National Health Commission, Beijing, China

Dr Hiroshi Kida

University Professor, Hokkaido University and Head, Collaborating Research Center for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University, Japan

Professor Marion Koopmans

Chief, Virology Department, Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands

Professor John Mackenzie

Emeritus Professor, Curtin University, Australia

Dr Babacar Ndoye

Expert Consultant for Hospital Hygiene, Senegal

Ms Karen Tan

Senior Director, Public Communication Division, Ministry of Communications and Information, Singapore

Dr Linfa Wang

Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore

Dr Ziad Memish

Senior Infectious Disease Consultant, Director, Research Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Advisors

Etienne Bonbon

Senior Veterinary Advisor, EMC-AH / Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

Dr Denis Couloumbier

Former Head of Unit, Preparedness and Response Support, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden

Dr Keith Hamilton

Head of the Preparedness and Resilience Department, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), France

Dr David Powell

Chief Medical Officer, International Air Transport Association, New Zealand

Dr Malik Peiris

Director, School of Public Health and Chair in Virology, Co-Director, WHO H5 Reference Laboratory, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Dr Theresa Tam

Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada