Technical Advisory Group on Malaria Elimination and Certification
The Technical Advisory Group on Malaria Elimination and Certification (TAG-MEC) is an advisory body that advises WHO whether malaria-free certification should be granted to a country, upon the request of its government, and whether a country’s malaria-free certification should be revoked.
The Technical Advisory Group on Malaria Elimination and Certification (TAG-MEC) is an advisory body that advises WHO whether malaria-free certification should be granted to a country, upon the request of its government, based on WHO criteria and whether a country’s malaria-free certification should be revoked. The TAG-MEC also advises WHO to resolve bottlenecks for malaria elimination at country, regional and global levels. In addition, the Group acts as an advisory body on policy recommendation in the field of malaria elimination and prevention of re-establishment of transmission.
The Technical Advisory Group on Malaria Elimination and Certification (TAG-MEC) combines the functions of 2 former advisory committees on malaria elimination: the Malaria Elimination Certification Panel (MECP) and the Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC). Established in December 2017, the MECP was tasked to advise WHO whether a country could be certified as malaria-free based on certification criteria. The MEOC, created in April 2018, worked with countries to achieve malaria-free status and to maintain an overview of how countries and regions advance towards malaria elimination. Since the process of preparing for certification starts well before a country gets to zero indigenous cases of malaria, the TAG-MEC advises WHO in preparing countries for certification along their paths to achieve zero transmission and in certifying those that have met the certification criteria.
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Members of the TAG-MEC
Professor Pedro Alonso
Professor of Global Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science-Hospital Clinic, University of Barcelona, Spain
Professor Fred Binka
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ho, Volta, Ghana
Dr Keith Carter
Independent consultant
Professor Brian Greenwood
Manson Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Dr Anatoly Kondrashin
Senior Research Officer, Martzinovsky Institute of Medical Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, Russia
Dr Rossitza Kurdova-Mintcheva
Independent consultant on malaria control and elimination
Dr Reza Majdzadeh
Senior lecturer of Global Public Health at the University of Essex, United Kingdom
Dr Kamini Mendis
Independent Consultant on malaria and tropical medicine, Sri Lanka
Professor Martha Quiñones
Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Dr Frank Richards
Senior Advisor to the Health Programmes at the Carter Center in Atlanta, USA
Dr Leonardo Santos Simão
Executive Director of the Joaquim Chissano Foundation, Maputo, Mozambique
Dr Allan Schapira
Visiting consultant, Bicol University College of Medicine, Philippines
Dr Laurence Slutsker
Independent consultant
Professor Linhua Tang
Professor and Former Director, National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, China
Meeting reports of the MECP
Meeting reports of the MEOC
16 December 2021
Second focused review meeting by the Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC)
11 February 2019
Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC) focused review meeting
11 June 2018
Second meeting of the Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC)
11 May 2018
WHO Malaria Elimination Oversight Committee (MEOC) meeting
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