COVID-19 IHR Emergency Committee
The IHR Emergency Committee for COVID-19 held its first meeting on 22 and 23 January 2020. On 30 January 2020, following its second meeting, the Director-General declared that the outbreak constituted a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, accepted the Committee’s advice and issued it as IHR Temporary Recommendations. The Committee continues to meet on a regular basis.
Statements
Chair
Dr
Didier
Houssin
President AP-HP International, Subsidiary of Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris France
Members
Dr Martin Cetron
Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Dr Adelle Chang On
County Medical Officer of Health, Ministry of Health TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
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 Youngmee Jee
Chief Executive Officer, Institut Pasteur, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Dr Nyoman Kandun
FETP Indonesia Program Director, Directorate General Disease Control and Environmental Health, Ministry of Health INDONESIA
Dr Hiroshi Kida
University Professor, Hokkaido University and Head, Collaborating Research for the Control and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, Nagasaki University JAPAN
Professor Marion Koopmans
Chief, Virology Department, Erasmus Medical Centre THE NETHERLANDS
Professor Rose Leke
Former Head of Immunology and Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Yaoundé CAMEROON
Professor Wannian Liang
Professor and Executive Vice President of the Vanke School of Public Health, Tsinghua University PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Professor John S. Mackenzie
Emeritus Professor, Curtin University AUSTRALIA
Dr Brian McCloskey
Senior Consulting Fellow at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Dr Ziad Memish
Senior Infectious Disease Consultant and Director, Research Centre, King Saud Medical City, Ministry of Health KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA
Dr Palliri Ravindran
Director, Emergency Medical Relief Division, Ministry of Health, INDIA
Professor Helen Rees
Professor (OBE), Executive Director, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwaterstrand SOUTH AFRICA
Dr Muhammad Salman
Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Microbiology and Virology, Public Health Laboratory Division, National Institute of Health PAKISTAN
Ms Karen Tan
Senior Director, Public Communication Division, Ministry of Communications and Information SINGAPORE
Dr Denise Werker
Clinical Associate Professor, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan CANADA
Advisors
Dr Steve Ahuke
Chief, Department of Virology, National Institute of Biomedical Research DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
Etienne Bonbon
Senior Veterinary Advisor, EMC-AH / Animal Health Service, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ITALY
Dr Heike Deggim
Director, Maritime Safety Division International Maritime Organization UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Dr Dirk Glaesser
Director, Sustainable Development of Tourism, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) SPAIN
Dr Keith Hamilton
Head of the Preparedness and Resilience Department, World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) FRANCE
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu
Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NIGERIA
Dr Joanna Jordaan
Chief, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization CANADA
Dr Palitha Karunapema
Director (Quarantine), Ministry of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine SRI LANKA
Dr Khalil Mohammad Khalil
Head of Aviation Medicine, Department of Jordan Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission JORDAN
Dr Malik Peiris
Director School of Public Health and Chair in Virology, Co-Director, WHO H5 Reference Laborator, The University of Hong Kong PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
Dr David Powell
Chief Medical Officer, International Air Transport Association NEW ZEALAND
Dr Anders Tegnell
Director, Knowledge based policy and guidances, Public Health Agency, SWEDEN
Former members
Professor Stuart D. Blacksell
Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand; Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Professor Babacar Ndoye
Independent Expert-consultant, Infection prevention and control, Antimicrobial resistance, Dakar, Senegal
Professor Linfa Wang
Director, Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore
Former advisors
Dr Lucia Alonso
Former Deputy Director, Department of Epidemiology, Directorate General for Health, Ministry of Public Health URUGUAY
Dr Denis Coulombier
Former Head of Unit, Preparedness and Response Support, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr Theresa Tam
Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, Ottawa, Canada