Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Equateur) IHR Emergency Committee
The IHR Emergency Committee for Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Equateur) met on one occasion in May 2018. Based on the advice of the Committee, the reports made by the affected States Parties, and the available information, the WHO Director-General accepted the Committee’s assessment and on 18 May 2018 did not declare the event a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) but provided advice to States.
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
Professor Mapatano Mala Ali
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Nutrition, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Professor Ximena Aguilera
Director of Center of Epidemiology and Health Policy, Faculty of Medicine at Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
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 Arlene King
Consultant in public health and preventive medicine and Adjunct Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. (IAVG Co-Chair)
Professor Babacar Ndoye
Independent Expert-consultant, Infection prevention and control, Antimicrobial resistance, Dakar, Senegal
Professor Mahmudur Rahman
Director, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research and National Influenza Centre, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Prof. Michael Selgelid
Director, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Ms Karen Tan
Senior Director, Public Communication Division, Ministry of Communications and Information SINGAPORE
Marsha L. Vanderford
Former Director, Department of Communications, WHO
Advisors
Professor Jon S. Abramson
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Brenner Children’s Hospital, Winston-Salem, United States of America
Professor Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga
Directeur d'études, Institut des mondes africains, Paris, France
Dr Joanna Jordaan
Chief, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization CANADA
Dr Rinat Maksyutov
Director General, Federal Budgetary Research Institution
Dr Alain Epelboin
Researcher in Medical Anthropology, National Centre for Scientific Research and National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France