CURRENT GACVS MEMBERS
Name
Position and Affiliation
Date appointed
Dr Melinda Wharton (Chairperson)
Deputy Director, National Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Immunization
Program, Atlanta, USA
Dr Don Ananda Amarasinghe
Consultant Epidemiologist, Epidemiology Unit,
Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka
Dr Nicholas Andrews
Statistics Unit, Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, London, UK
Dec-2012
Dec-2015
Dr Abdoulreza Esteghamati
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran,
Iran (Islamic Republic of)
Dec-2012
Dec-2015
Professor Michael Gold
Senior Lecturer, University Department of Paediatrics, Women's and Children's
Hospital, Australia
Dec-2010
(reappointed in
Dec-2013
Dec-2016
Dr Marion Gruber
Centre for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration,
USA
Dec-2013
Dec-2016
Professor Ambrose Isah
Department of Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Benin, Benin
City, Nigeria
Dec-2012
Dec-2015
Professor Gagandeep Kang
Professor and Head, The Wellcome Trust Research Laboratory, Department of
Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Jun-2011
Jun-2014
Professor Brigitte Keller-Stanislawski
Head, Department Safety of Medicinal Products and Medicinal Devices, PaulEhrlich-Institut, Langen, Germany
Jun-2009
(reappointed in
June 2012)
Jun-2015
Professor Terhi Kilpi
Department of Vaccination and Immune Protection, National Institute for Health
and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
June-2013
June-2016
Dr Xavier Kurz
European Medicines Agency, United Kingdom
Dec-2013
Dec-2016
Dr Rosanna Lagos
Ministerio de Salue de Chile, Santiago
June-2013
June-2016
Dr Punam Mangtani
Clinical Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Dec-2011
Dec-2014
Dr Robert Pless
Office of Public Health Practice, Public Health Agency of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
Dec-2011
Dec-2014
Professor Ulrich Heininger
Head of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Universitäts-Kinderspital
beider Basel, Switzerland
Jun-2014
Jun-2017
*Members may be re-appointed for a second three-year term.
The dates of end of appointment may therefore change for some members.
Jun-2009
(reappointed in
June 2012)
Jun-2009
(reappointed in
June 2012)
*End of
appointment
Jun-2015
Jun-2015