Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu and Ituri) IHR Emergency Committee
The IHR Emergency Committee on Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kivu and Ituri) met on eight occasions from May 2019 to July 2020. Following its fourth meeting on 17 July 2019, the WHO Director-General, accepted the Committee’s assessment and declared the event a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. He also issued the advice of the Committee as IHR Temporary Recommendation. The Director-General terminated the PHEIC on 26 June 2020 following the Committee’s assessment and issued its updated advice as IHR Temporary Recommendations.
Statements
Chair
Professor
Robert
Steffen
Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Members
Dr Preben Aavitsland
Senior Consultant, Professor, Domain for infectious disease prevention, health and the environment, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Dr Abdoulaye Bousso
Director, Senegal Health Emergency Operations Center, Dakar, Senegal
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 Joanna Jordaan
Chief, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization CANADA
Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
Department of Microbiology, University of Kinshasa, and Director-General, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Dr Brian McCloskey
Senior Consulting Fellow at the Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND
Ms Olubunmi Ojo
Former Director, Surveillance and Epidemiology and responsible for implementation of International Health Regulations at the National Public Health Institute, Nigeria
Dr Jean-Marie Okwo-Bele
Public health consultant, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Former director of the vaccines and immunization department, WHO Headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland (Retired)
Marsha L. Vanderford
Former Director, Department of Communications, WHO
Advisors
Dr Juliet Bedford
Director of Anthrologica, School of Antrhopology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu
Director General, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NIGERIA
Professor Sylvain Landry Faye
Socio-Anthropologue, Enseignant-Chercheur, Département de Sociologie, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines (FLSH), Université Cheikh Anta DIOP (UCAD), Dakar, Senegal
Dr Rinat Maksyutov
Director General, Federal Budgetary Research Institution
Dr Carlos Navarro Colorado
Principal Advisor, Public Health Emergencies, on behalf of UNICEF’s Executive Director (by delegation)
David Gressly
UN Emergency Ebola Response Coordinator (EERC)