Organizing Committee

Nancy J Cox, PhD Chair
Director, Influenza Division
Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Epidemiology and Control of Influenza
National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (proposed)
Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

International Organizing Committee

Ann Moen, MPA Co-Chair
Associate Director of Extramural
Influenza Programs, Influenza Division
National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (proposed)
Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Susan E Tamblyn Co-Chair
Public Health Consultant
Stratford, Ontario Canada

Robert Couch
Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Houston, Texas, USA

Lars R Haaheim
Professor
Influenza Centre University of Bergen
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Bergen, Norway

Yoshihiro Kawaoka
Professor of Virology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
School of Veterinary Medicine
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Hiroshi Kida
Professor
Hokkaido University Graduate School
of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Disease Control
Sapporo, Japan

Arlene King
Director General
Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat
Public Health Agency of Canada
Ottawa, Ontario

Peter Palese
Professor and Chair
Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, New York, USA

Albert Osterhaus
Professor
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Medical Faculty, Department of Virology
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Vilma L Savy
Chief, Respiratory Virus
INEI-ANLIS “Carlos G Malbran”
Department of Virology
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Masato Tashiro
Director
National Institute of Infectious Diseases
Department of Viral Diseases
& Vaccine Control
Tokyo, Japan

Theresa Turski
Health Scientist, Extramural
Influenza Program Office

Influenza Division
National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (proposed)
Coordinating Center for Infectious Disease
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

International Advisors

Alan W Hampson
Convenor
Australian Influenza Specialist Group
Parkville, Australia

Hans-Dieter Klenk
Professor
Institute for Virology
Philipps University Marburg
Marburg, Germany

Katsuhisa Nakajima
Professor
Nagoya City University
Nagoya, Japan

Geoffrey C Schild
Professional Affairs Officer
International Society for Influenza and other Respiratory Virus Diseases (isirv)
Society for General Microbiology
Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom

Guo Yuanji
Professor
National Center for Preventive Medicine
Beijing, China

Robert G Webster
Chairman
St Jude Children’s
Research Hospital
Department of Virology
and Molecular Biology
Memphis, Tennessee, USA

 

Canada-Ontario Liaisons

Michael Finkelstein
Associate Medical
Officer of Health
Communicable Disease Control
Toronto Public Health
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Erika Bontovics
Senior Infection Control
Consultant Infectious Diseases Branch, Public Health Division
Ministry of Health and
Long-Term Care
Toronto, Ontario, Canada