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 Sitara Swarna Rao Aijampur

Professor of Microbiology and Head, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India

Professor Lucille Blumberg

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

Professor Moses John Bockarie

Adjunct Professor, School of Medical Sciences, Njala University, Sierra Leone; former Director, Centre for NTDs, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Dr Anoja Dheerasinghe

Consultant Community Physician, National Dengue Control Unit, Ministry of Health , Sri Lanka

Dr Neeraj Dhingra

Senior public health specialist; former Director, National Centre for Vector Borne Disease Control, Ministry of Health, India

Professor Wendemagegn Enbiale Yeshaneh

Professor of Dermatovenerology, Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia

Professor Heather M. Ferguson

Professor, Infectious Disease Ecology, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Dr Indeewarie E. Gunaratna

Public health specialist; Consultant Community Physician at the Anti Malaria Campaign, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka

Dr Achille Kaboré

Country Representative, The Carter Center, Cameroon.

Dr Patrick Lammie

Director, Neglected Tropical Diseases Support Center (NTD-SC), The Task Force for Global Health (TFGH), USA

Professor Francisca Mutapi

Professor of Global Health Infection and Immunity, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Professor Gabriel Parra-Henao

Professor of Medical Entomology and Ecology of Disease Vectors and Director, Center for Tropical Health Research, Cooperative University of Colombia

Professor Serge Resnikoff

President, Organisation pour la Prévention de la Cécité (OPC); Chair, Brien Holden Vision Institute Foundation; Chair, The Fondation Théa

Ms Nirmala Sharma

Country Coordinator, FAIRMED, Nepal

Professor John Russell Stothard

Professor of Medical Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, United Kingdom

Dr Hadley Matendechero Sultani

Senior Deputy Director, Ministry of Health, Kenya

Professor Susana Vaz Nery

Professor, Global Health Program, Kirby Institute, University of South Wales, Australia

Professor Judd Walson

Chair, Department of International Health and Professor of International Health, Medicine and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Professor Guojing Yang

Dean, School of Public Health, Hainan Medical University, China