In March 2020, the group’s annual face-to-face meeting was cancelled due to the global pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Instead, SAGE IVD established a remote process to update the EDL and provide WHO with IVD-related advice. Through successive rounds of remote voting and online deliberations from April to July 2020, and two extraordinary sessions in October and November, SAGE IVD managed to consider and make recommendations on every application made to update the EDL, including late-breaker submissions of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests, as well as to share progress updates and discuss strategic topics.
2020 Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on IVDs
- Dr Rashad Abdul-Ghani
- Sara Alqabandi
- Ghaya Abdellatif Alwahdanee
- Anurag Bhargava
- Dr Catharina Boehme
- Dr Jean Pierre Chanoine
- Dr Gvantsa Chanturia
- Dr Wenxiang Chen
- Chansy Dalavong
- Alice Emeka
- Dr Ronnie Gavilán Chávez
- Dr Ravnit Grewal
- Dr Isao Hamaguchi
- Michelle McNiven
- Dr Nwe Oo
- Dr Shahin Sayed
- Dr Lee Schroeder
- Valerie Wilson
- Sangay Zangmo
Applications for new product categories
- Aspergillus antigen test
- Aspergillus IgG
- Pneumocystis PCR
- Point-of-care Sickle cell test
- Trypanosoma cruzi IgG
- Prolactin
- Cortisol
- Serum protein electrophoresis for Primary Immune deficiency
- Serum and urine protein electrophoresis for myeloma
- CSF profile
- Rubella IgG
- Rubella IgM
- Measles IgM
- Measles IgG
- Measles PCR
- Leishmania Direct agglutination test
- Luteinizing hormone
- Follicle Stimulating Hormone
- Estrogen
- Progesterone
- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
- S.pyogenes rapid test
- S.pyogenes PCR in throat swab
- Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor PCR
Suggested edits to previous EDL entries
Additional evidence for the conditional listing
Submission for negative listing
Public Comments
No submissions
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