Scientific Advisory Council

Irene Akua Agyepong
Department of Health Policy, Planning and Management, University of Ghana, GhanaExpertise | Health policy development and implementation, health policy and systems research

Shaden Kamhawi
Intracellular Parasite Biology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, Bethesda, USAExpertise | Parasite biology

John Nkengasong
Africa CDC (director)Expertise | Virology, public health

Yodi Mahendradhata
Vice Dean for Research and Development, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada, IndonesiaExpertise | Global health, implementation science, disease control, health policy and health program management

Judith Garcia-Aymerich
Head of the Non-Communicable Diseases and Environment Research Programme, ISGlobal, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, SpainExpertise | Epidemiology of chronic respiratory diseases

Amadou Alpha Sall
Director Institut Pasteur Dakar; Chairman of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network; Director of the WHO collaborating center for Arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic feverExpertise | Epidemics response and control more specifically for arboviruses and viral hemorrhagic fevers

Lucy Robertson
Professor, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Paraclinical Sciences, Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), NorwayExpertise | Parasitology, neglected pathogens, One Health

Zeno Bisoffi
Associate Professor of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University of Verona, Director, Centre for Tropical Diseases, Don Calabria Hospital, Verona, ItalyExpertise | Malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and the optimal clinical-diagnostic approach to tropical and parasitic diseases

Alexandra Calmy
Professor, Head of the HIV/AIDS Unit of the University Hospital of Geneva, SwitzerlandExpertise | Infectious diseases, public health and humanitarian response to HIV/AIDS

Johnny Peter
Associate Professor, Head Division of Allergology and Clinical Immunology at Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South AfricaExpertise | Clinical immunology, allergy

Judith Wasserheit
Professor and Chair of Global Health at the University of Washington, Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, USAExpertise | Global health, HIV/STIs, health systems, capacity and education

Peter Piot
Handa Professor of Global Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; visiting professor Rega Institute, KULeuven and NUS Singapore Vice-Chair of the Global Health Innovation Technology Fund (GHIT), Tokyo, and Board member Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovation (CEPI), Special Advisor to the President of the European Commission on COVID-19, …Expertise | Global Health, microbiology, epidemics