Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa (2014-2015) IHR Emergency Committee
The IHR Emergency Committee on the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in West Africa met on nine occasions from August 2014 to March 2016. On 8 August 2014, the WHO Director-General, based on the advice of the Committee, the reports made by affected States Parties and the available information at the time, declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) and issued the Committee’s advice as IHR Temporary Recommendations. The Director-General terminated the PHEIC on 29 March 2016.
Statements
Chair
Dr
Sam
Zaramba
Senior Consultant Surgeon, Former Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
Vice-Chair
Professor Robert Steffen
Department of Epidemiology and Prevention of Infectious Diseases, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers’ Health, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Rapporteur
Dr Oyewale Tomori
Member of the Global Virome Project Leadership Board
Members
Dr Abdullah Al-Assiri
Assistant Deputy Minister of Health for Preventive Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Professor Chris Baggoley
Former Chief Medical Officer, Australian Government
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 Alain Epelboin
Researcher in Medical Anthropology, National Centre for Scientific Research and National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France
Dr Amara Jambai
Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Professor James LeDuc
Director, Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, United States of America
Dr Fernando Otaiza
Coordinator, National Infection Control Program, Ministry of Health, Santiago, Chile
Dr Mark Salter
Consultant in Global Health, Public Health England, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Theresa Tam
Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada
Advisers
Professor William Ampofo
Head of Virology Department, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
Colonel (retired) Vincent Anami
Continent Representative (Africa), Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health and Sciences, Friends International Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Dr Vinecent Covello
Director, Center for Risk Communication, New York, United States of America
Dr Anthony Evand
Chief, Aviation Medicine Section, International Civil Aviation Organization, Montreal, Canada
Dr Dirk Glaesser
Director, Sustainable Development of Tourism, World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) SPAIN
Dr Maria João Martins
Advisor to the General Director of Health for International Health, Ministry of Health, Lisbon, Portugal
Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum
Department of Microbiology, University of Kinshasa, and Director-General, National Institute of Biomedical Research, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Prof. Michael Selgelid
Director, Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Captain Andrew Winbow
Assistant Secretary-General/Director, Maritime Safety Division, International Maritime Organization, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Dr Dirk Glaesser and Captain Andrew Winbow Advisor since third Ebola IHR Emergency Committee meeting