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

5 May 2023
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Statement on the fifteenth meeting of the IHR (2005) Emergency Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic
30 January 2023
Statement

Statement on the fourteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
18 October 2022
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Statement on the thirteenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
12 July 2022
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Statement on the twelfth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
13 April 2022
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Statement on the eleventh meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
19 January 2022
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Statement on the tenth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
26 October 2021
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Statement on the ninth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
15 July 2021
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Statement on the eighth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
19 April 2021
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Statement on the seventh meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
15 January 2021
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Statement on the sixth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
30 October 2020
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Statement on the fifth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic
1 August 2020
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Statement on the fourth meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
1 May 2020
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Statement on the third meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19)
30 January 2020
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Statement on the second meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
23 January 2020
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Statement on the first meeting of the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee regarding the outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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

Adelle Chang On

Trinidad and Tobago - 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

Commissioner, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), 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 and Head, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University JAPAN

Professor Marion Koopmans

Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for emerging infectious diseases at Erasmus Medical Centre, Netherlands

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, Perth, Australia

Dr Brian McCloskey

Senior Consulting Fellow at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

Ziad Memish

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

Dr Palliri Ravindran

Consultant-Advisor, Disaster Management Cell, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India

Professor Helen Rees

Executive Director

Dr Muhammad Salman

Principal Scientific Officer, Department of Microbiology and Virology, Public Health Laboratory Division, National Institute of Health PAKISTAN

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

Dr 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 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

Prof Malik Peiris

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

Professor of Tropical Microbiology, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Biorisk and Zoonosis group leader, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Bangkok, Thailand

Professor Babacar Ndoye

Independent Expert-consultant, Infection prevention and control, Antimicrobial resistance, Dakar, Senegal

Ms Karen Tan

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

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, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada

Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu

Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NIGERIA