Yellow fever IHR Emergency Committee
The IHR Emergency Committee on Yellow Fever met on two occasions from May to August 2016. The WHO Director-General accepted the Committee’s assessment that the yellow fever situation was serious and of great concern but did not constitute a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. The Committee further offered technical advice to States.
Statements
Chair
Members
Dr Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr.
President, National Agency of Health Surveillance, Brazil
Dr Kalpana Baruah
Joint Director, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, India
Dr J. Erin Staples
Medical Epidemiologist at Arboviral Disease Branch, Division of Vector-borne Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America
Dr Denise Werker
Clinical Associate Professor, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan CANADA
Dr Jianning Zheng
Director of Yong Port Office, Ningbo Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau of the People’s Republic of China
Advisers
Dr Joanna Jordaan
Chief, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization CANADA
Dr Thomas P. Monath
Chief Scientific and Chief Operating Officer
Dr Mohamed Nour
Public Health Specialist, epidemiologist in Communicable Disease and expert in Emergency Risk communication at the Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control (HP & CDC), Ministry of Public Health, Qatar