WHO Workshop on Lassa Vaccine evaluation 24 April 2018 - INSERM, 101 rue de Tolbiac, 75013 Paris LIST OF PARTICIPANTS Participants Prof George O. Akpede Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, Ambrose Alli University Dr Danny Asogun Associate Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Ambrose Alli University / Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Dr Augustin Augier Secretary General, ALIMA - The Alliance for International Medical Action, Prof Daniel G. Bausch Director, Public Health Rapid Support Team, Dr Sina Bavari Chief Scientific Officer/Scientific Director US. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Prof Victor De Gruttola (TC) Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Prof W. John Edmunds Professor, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Prof Susan S. Ellenberg Professor of Biostatistics Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Prof Thomas R. Fleming Professor of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Dr Christiane Gerke Head of Vaccine Programs, Development Department, Institut Pasteur, Dr Donald Grant (TC) Chief Physician of the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever ward, Kenema Government Hospital, Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone Prof Stephan Guenther Head, Department of Virology, Bernhardt-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Germany Dr Norheim Gunnstein Director, Vaccine Science, CEPI Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Disease Control, Prof Albert I. Ko Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine, Chair Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health,
Dr Philip R. Krause Deputy Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, US Food and Drug Administration, Dr Gianni Lo Iacono Lecturer in Biostatistics/Epidemiology, University of Surrey, Prof Yves Lévy Chief Executive Officer INSERM Prof Ira M. Longini Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Prof Denis Malvy Head of the Tropical Medicine Unit, University Hospital of Bordeaux and INSERM, Dr Martha C. Nason Mathematical Statistician, Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr Edwin Nkansah Head of Biological Products Units, Ghana Food and Drug Administration, Ghana Prof Sylvanus Okogbenin Chief Medical Director, Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Dr Robinson Chukwudi Onoh Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee on Viral Hemorrhagic Fever, Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki,
Dr Pierre E. Rollin Deputy Branch Chief, Viral Special Pathogens Branch, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr David Safronetz Chief of Special Pathogens, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Canada Dr Connie Schmaljohn Senior Research Scientist, US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Prof Yazdan Yazdanpanah Director, Immunology, Inflammation and Microbiology, INSERM,
WHO Secretariat Dr Alejandro Costa Initiative for Vaccine Research Dr Janet Diaz Team Lead - Clinical Management, World Health Emergencies programme, World Health Organization, Switzerland Dr Pierre B. Formenty Team Lead - Viral Haemorrhagic Fevers, World Health Emergencies programme, World Health Organization, Switzerland Dr Pierre-Stephane Gsell Initiative for Vaccine Research Dr Ana Maria Henao Restrepo Team Lead - Initiative for Vaccine Research & R&D Blueprint Coordinator Dr Konstantin Volkmann Consultant - Initiative for Vaccine Research Dr Karene Yeung Consultant - Initiative for Vaccine Research
Observers Dr Eric D'Ortenzio Scientific Coordinator, REACTing, INSERM, Dr P. Guillaume Poliquin Senior Medical Advisor, Paediatric Infections Diseases Specialist, National Microbiology Laboratory, Canada Prof Michael Ramharter Head of Division of Tropical Medicine, Germany Dr Alex Salam Clinical, Public Health Rapid Support Team, Dr Melanie Saville Director, Vaccine Development, CEPI Dr Conall Watson Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,