Mission

The STAG is the principal advisory group to WHO for the control of NTDs and reports directly to the Director-General of WHO. Its mandate is to advise WHO on overall global policies and strategies, ranging from monitoring of implementation to delivery and linkages with other health interventions. Its remit is to facilitate and monitor the coverage of control interventions and to provide WHO with high-quality, well considered advice and recommendations on matters described in its terms of reference.

 

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Members

Dr Ahmed Abd El Wahed

Head of the Animal Hygiene Laboratory at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig University, Germany

Professor Olaoluwa Akinwale

Professor of Parasitology, Deputy Director-General of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, and the Institute’s Director of Neglected Tropical Disease Research

Professor Lucille Blumberg

Former Deputy Director of the National Health Laboratory Service and founding head of the Division of Public Health Surveillance and Response, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), South Africa

Dr Vu Quoc Dat

Lecturer, Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University (HMU), Viet Nam

Dr Neeraj Dhingra

Senior public health specialist and Former Director, National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme, Ministry of Health, India

Professor Wendemagegn Enbiale Yeshaneh

Professor of Dermatovenerology, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Professor Heather M. Ferguson

Professor in Medical Entomology and Disease Ecology at the University of Glasgow, Scotland

Dr Indeewarie E. Gunaratna

Public health specialist, Consultant Community Physician in Anti Filariasis Campaign, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Professor Margaret Gyapong

Director, Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana.

Dr Alaa Hamed

Expert in Public Health, Egypt

Professor David Mabey, Chair STAG-NTD

Physician in infectious and tropical diseases and teacher at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Dr Gabriel Parra-Henao

Director, Centro de Investigación en Salud para el Trópico (Center for Tropical Health Research), Cooperative University of Colombia (Santa Marta, Colombia)

Dr Naseem Salahuddin

Head of Department of Infectious Diseases, The Indus Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Dr Oscar Daniel Salomón

Director of the National Institute of Tropical Medicine and Senior Researcher of the National Council of Science, Argentina

Dr Susana Vaz Nery

Associate Professor, Lead, Neglected Tropical Diseases Research Group, The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia

Professor Judd Walson

Professor in the Departments of Global Health, Medicine (Infectious Disease), Pediatrics and Epidemiology at the University of Washington, USA

Professor Ning Xiao

Deputy Director National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, China Centers for Disease Control Beijing People’s Republic of China