ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
The Center for Geographic Medicine and Tropical Diseases, The Chaim Sheba Medical Center,
Tel Hashomer, Israel
CHAIR
Eli Schwartz
Associate Director, Center for Infection and Immunity;
Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University,
New York, NY, USA
Thomas Briese
Senior Expert Emerging and Vector-borne Diseases,
Surveillance and Response Support Unit,
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC),
Solna, Sweden
Celine Gossner
Emeritus Professor,
Programme in Emerging Infectious Diseases
Duke-NUS Medical School,
Singapore
Duane J. Gubler
Director of the Department of Clinical Microbiology,
Sheba Medical Center,
Tel Hashomer, Israel
Natan Keller
CEO, Chairman of the Board,
Atheric Pharmaceutical,
LLC, USA
Robert W. Malone
Médecin Biologiste, HDR; Director of the Diagnosis Laboratory; Director of the Emerging Infectious Disease Unit, Papeete, Institut Louis Malardé, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Didier Musso
Tropical Medicine,
Institute of Clinical Medicine
Aarhus University, Denmark
& Department of Infectious Diseases,
The Royal Hospital,
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Eskild Petersen
Microcephaly Epidemic Research Group, Instituto de Pesquisa Aggeu Magalhaes, Fiocruz Pernambuco,
Recife, Brazil
Celina Turchi-Martelli
Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, UK
Consultant, WHO Initiative for Vaccine Research
Annelies Wilder-Smith
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Corey Casper
Chair, Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine; Head, Center for Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Division of Internal Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Martin P. Grobusch
Group Leader: Immunology of Human Pregnancy, Centre de physiopathologie de Toulouse Purpan, INSERM U1043 – CNRS UMR5282 – Université Toulouse III,CHU Purpan, Toulouse, France
Nabila Jabrane-Ferrat
Chief; Diagnostic and Reference Laboratory, Arbovirus Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Robert S. Lanciotti
Professor of Epidemiology;
Director, Infectious Disease Epidemiology Certificate Program, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, USA
Stephen S. Morse
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Piero Olliaro
Pathology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, United States
Editor, Springer Global Maternal and Child Health Series: Medical, Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives
David Alan Schwarts
Director, Instituto Evandro Chagas, SVS/Ministry of Health; Director, PAHO/WHO CC for Arbovirus Research & Diagnostic Reference, Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers, Evandro Chagas Institute, Ministry of Health, Brazil
Pedro F.C. Vasconcelos
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot, Israel
SPECIAL ADVISOR