WG Members
- Lead of Work Package 1: Sonali Kochhar
- Obstetric Lead: Linda O. Eckert
- Neonatal Lead: Flor M. Muñoz-Rivas
The following experts have made an important effort on a voluntary basis over several months to contribute to the development of the case definitions under high pressure in order to meet the project deadlines. The GAIA Consortium would like to thank them all for their key contributions by acknowledging them on this website.
It has been a pleasure working with you and we expect that the results of your work will achieve a high impact in the implementation phase of the GAIA project
Obstetric Case Definitions Working Groups
| WG Lead: Geeta K. Swamy | ||
| WG Coordinator: Courtney Gravett | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Courtney Gravett | Senior Program Coordinator | Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth, Seattle Children’s Hospital, USA |
| Donald J. Dudley | Director | University of Virginia, USA |
| Elizabeth M. Stringer | University of North Carolina, USA | |
| Geeta K. Swamy | Associate Professor | Duke University, USA |
| Michael G. Gravett | Professor and Vice-Chairman, Adjunct Professor; Scientific director | University of Washington, USA |
| Linda O. Eckert | Associate Professor | University of Washington, USA |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Tresor Bodjick Muena Mujobu | Research associate; Vaccinology and Clinical Research Specialist | University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Olga Lyabis | Regional medical expert, Greater Europe | Sanofi Pasteur, Russia |
| WG Lead: Bernard Gonik | ||
| WG Coordinator: Clare Cutland | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Bernard Gonik | Professor and Fann Srere Endowed Chair of Perinatal Medicine | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA |
| Clare Cutland | Senior Researcher |
Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg; Department of Science and Technology National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Farshad Pourmalek | Post-Doc. Fellow | School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Hans Spiegel | Medical Officer | Henry Jackson Foundation, Bethesda, USA |
| Linda O. Eckert | Associate Professor | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington, USA |
| Manasi Patwardhan | Associate professor (Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology) | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, US |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| WG Lead: Thomas F. McElrath | ||
| WG Coordinator: Caroline E. Rouse | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Arundhathi Jeyabalan | Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences | University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA |
| Blair J Wylie | Attending Perinatologist, Assistant Professor | Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA |
| Caroline E. Rouse | Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA |
| Deirdre J. Lyell | Associate Professor | Stanford University, Stanford, USA |
| Linda O. Eckert | Associate Professor | University of Washington, Seattle, USA |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Thomas F. McElrath | Attending in Maternal-Fetal Medicine | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, USA |
| WG Lead: Andrew Weeks | ||
| WG Coordinator: Robbie Kerr | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Andrew Weeks | Clinical Academic (Professor) | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Ben Mol | Professor Obstetrics and Gynaecology | University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Beverly Winikoff | President | Gynuity Health Projects, NY, USA |
| Jill Durocher | Senior Program Associate | Gynuity Health Projects, NY, USA |
| Julius Wandwabwa | Professor and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | Busitema University, Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda |
| Khalid S. Khan | Professor | Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK |
| Linda O. Eckert | Associate Professor | University of Washington, USA |
| Robbie Kerr | Medical Doctor | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Sabaratnum Arulkumaran | Professor Emeritus in O&G | St George’s University of London, UK |
| Shireen Meher | Medical Doctor | University of Liverpool, UK |
| Shuchita Mundle | Associate Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology | Government Medical College and Hospital Nagpur, India |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Sue Fawcus | Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Cape Town | Mowbray Maternity Hospital, South Africa |
| WG Lead: Robert Goldenberg | ||
| WG Coordinator: Margo S. Harrison | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Anthony P. Nunes | Epidemiologist | Optum Life Sciences, USA |
| Clare Cutland | Senior Researcher | University of Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Diane M. Harper | Rowntree Endowed Professor and Chair | University of Louisville, USA |
| Elizabeth M. McClure | Research epidemiologist | Research Triangle Institute, USA |
| Linda O. Eckert | Associate Professor | University of Washington, USA |
| Margo S Harrison | MD MPH, instructor | Columbia University Medical Center, USA |
| Michael Gravett | Professor and Vice-Chairman, Adjunct Professor; Scientific director | Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth (GAPPS), an Initiative of Seattle Children’s Hospital, USA |
| Robert Goldenberg | MD, Professor Associate Research Scientist OBGYN | Columbia University Medical Center, USA |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Suzette Lazo |
Medical Doctor Professorial Lecturer Member, National Adverse Events Following Immunization Committee Past President and Current Board Member, Philippine Society of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology Former Director of the Food and Drug Administration (2010-2012) |
Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, College of Medicine, University of the Philippines-Manila |
| Tamala Mallett Moore | Global Pharmacovigilance | Sanofi Pasteur, USA |
| Wendy Watson | Senior Director, Vaccines Clinical Research | Pfizer, USA |
Neonatal Case Definitions Working Groups
| WG Lead: Flor M. Muñoz-Rivas | ||
| WG Coordinator: Fernanda Tavares Da Silva | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Alison Tse Kawai | Epidemiologist | Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Massachusetts, USA |
| Bernard Gonik | Professor and Fann Srere Endowed Chair of Perinatal Medicine | Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, USA |
| Charles Woods |
Director, Child & Adolescent Health Research Design & Support, Executive Vice Chair, Professor of Pediatrics – Pediatric Infectious Diseases |
University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA |
| Cheryl Keech | Director of Clinical and Regulatory Affairs | PATH, Seattle, USA |
| Diana M Harper | Rowntree Endowed Professor and Chair | University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, USA |
| Fernanda Tavares Da Silva | Director and Head of Therapeutic Area, Vaccines Safety and Pharmacovigilance | GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Wavre, Belgium |
| Flor M. Munoz | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Virology and Microbiology | Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, USA |
| Mark McMillan | Research Associate | The University of Adelaide, Australia |
| Mihaela Tila | Global Pharmacovigilance | Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France |
| Shraddha Bhange | Pharmacovigilance expert. Drug safety and epidemiology department. | Novartis Healthcare, Hyderabad, India |
| Stephanie Dellicour | Study coordinator | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| WG Lead: Elyse Kharbanda | ||
| WG Coordinator: Malini de Silva | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Alison Tse Kawai | Epidemiologist | Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Harvard Pilgrim Health, USA |
| Annette Elliott Rose | Perinatal Nurse Consultant | Reproductive Care Program of Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Anju Shrestha | Deputy Director/ Product Safety Officer, Global Pharmacovigilance | Sanofi Pasteur, USA |
| Elyse Kharbanda | Clinical Investigator | HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, USA |
| Francesco Trotta | Ufficio di Farmacovigilanza | Ufficio di Farmacovigilanza, Agenxia Italiana del Farmaco, Italy |
| Flor M. Muñoz-Rivas | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Virology and Microbiology | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA |
| Hans Spiegel | Medical Officer | Henry M. Jackson Foundation, USA |
| Helen Dolk | Professor | WHO Collaborating Centre for the Surveillance of Congenital Anomalies, Ulster University, United Kingdom |
| Helen Marshall | Associate Professor, Senior Medical Practitioner and Director | Vaccinology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, South Adelaide, Australia |
| Jyoti Joshi | Deputy Director and lead | Immunization Technical Support Unit, Public Health Foundation of India, India |
| Kristine K. Macartney | Deputy Director | National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance (NCIRS), Australia / Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, Australia |
| Malini De. Silva | Physician | HealthPartners Institute for Education and Research, USA |
| Martina Oneko | Pediatric Consultant | Kenya Medical Research Institute/CDC, Kisumu, Kenya |
| Mark Mcmillan | Research Associate | School of Paediatrics and Reproductive Health, The University of Adelaide, Australia / Vaccinology and Immunology Research Trials Unit, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, South Adelaide, Australia |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Sylvie Tomczyk | Head, Global Pharmacovigilance | Novartis influenza vaccines, Cambridge, USA |
| WG Lead: Clare Cutland | ||
| WG Coordinator: Jayani Pathirana | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Ambujam Kapoor | Sr. Advisor | Immunization Technical Support Unit – Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India. |
| Alexandra Mangili | Cluster Physician, GBS Clinical Development | Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA |
| Clare L. Cutland | Senior Researcher |
Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Daniel L. Keene | Rowntree Endowed Professor and Chair | Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| Farshad Pourmalek | Post-Doc. Fellow | School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada |
| Frederick Varricchio | Independent consultant, vaccinologist | USA |
| Flor M. Muñoz-Rivas | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Virology and Microbiology | Departments of Pediatrics, Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA |
| Jayani Pathirana | PhD student |
Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Michael A. Padula | Public health | Division of Neonatology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Niranjan Bhat | Senior Clinical Officer in the Vaccine Access and Delivery Program | Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), Seattle, USA |
| Stephen L. Pande | Public Health Consultant | Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, Ministry of Health Uganda |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Tara Harris | Nurse Consultant, Immunization & Vaccine Preventable Diseases | Immunization and Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Public Health Ontario, Canada |
| Victoria Abbing-Karahagopian | National program officer | Global Clinical Research & Development – Epidemiology Novartis/ GSK Vaccines Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Vitali Pool | US Medical Affairs | Sanofi Pasteur Inc., Swiftwater, USA |
| WG Lead: Paul Heath | ||
| WG Coordinator: Stefania Vergnano | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Alejandra Esteves-Jaramillo | Director of Clinical development | Global Pharmacovigilance, Sanofi Pasteur, USA |
| Alexandra Mangili | Cluster Physician, GBS Clinical Development | Novartis Vaccine/GSK Vaccines, USA |
| Beate Kampmann | Scientific Director of Vaccine Research, Professor of International Child Heath, Infection & Immunity | Imperial College, London UK; MRC Unit, The Gambia |
| Beckie N. Tagbo | Vaccination Consultant, Chief Consultant Paediatrician | Institute of Child Health, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Nigeria |
| Ben Cailes | Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group | Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, United Kingdom |
| César Velasco Muñoz | Scientific Advisor, Specialist Preventive Medicine and Public Health | ISGlobal, Barcelona Ctr. Int. Health Res. (CRESIB), Universitat de Barcelona, Spain |
| Chrissie Jones | Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group | Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, United Kingdom |
| Clare Cutland | Senior Researcher | University of the Witwatersrand, Wits Health Consortium, DST/ NRF Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (RMPRU), South Africa |
| Dat Tran | Assistant Professor | Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Canada |
| Ebiere Clark | Director | Enhanced Vigilance Systems, United Kingdom |
| Elena Chiappini | Professor and consultant in paediatric infectious diseases | Meyer Children’s Hospital, Florence University, Italy |
| Elizabeth Schlaudecker | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Division of Infectious Diseases Global Health Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA |
| Flor M. Muñoz | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Virology and Microbiology | Baylor College of Medicine, USA |
| Hans Spiegel | Medical Officer | Henry Jackson Foundation-Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
| James Oleske | Professor of Pediatrics | Department of Pediatrics, Rutgers – New Jersey Medical School, Newark, USA |
| Javier Ruiz Guinazu | GSK vaccines, Wavre, Belgium | |
| Jay King | Clinical Director, Vaccine Safety (PSO) | Global Pharmacovigilance, Sanofi Pasteur, USA |
| Jim Buttery | Department of Paediatrics | Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Australia |
| Karina A. Top | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics | Departments of Paediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada |
| Lakshmi Sukumaran | Medical Officer, Immunization Safety Office |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Emory University School of Medicine, USA |
| Maja Subelj | Public Health Physician | National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ), Slovenia |
| Melvin Sanicas | Program Officer, Global Health | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA |
| Michael Padula | Division of Neonatology | The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania, USA |
| Noni Macdonald | Professor of Paediatrics (Infectious Diseases), Co-Director MicroResearch | Departments of Paediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada |
| Paul T. Heath | Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Honorary Consultant | Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, United Kingdom |
| Ravichandran Chandrasekaran | Professor of Pediatrics | Madras Medical College, India |
| Reinaldo de Menezes Martins | Scientific consultant | Bio Manguinhos/Fiocruz, Brazil |
| Solange Dourado de Andrade | Responsible for Vaccine Adverse Events investigation, Pediatrician/Infectologist | Fundação de Medicina Tropical Dr. Heitor Vieira Dourado, Brazil |
| Sonali Kochhar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Stefania Vergnano | Consultant paediatric infectious diseases and Clinical lecturer | Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London, United Kingdom |
| WG Lead: Jim Buttery | ||
| WG Coordinator: Julie-Anne Quinn | ||
| MEMBERS | ||
| Volunteer | Position | Organisation |
| Aimee Kissou | Dr. Department of Pediatrics | Souro Sanou Teaching Hospital, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. |
| Ana-Maria Alguacil Ramos | Doctor of Pharmacy, Scientific Officer, Immunization programme manager | Dirección General de Salud Pública, Valencia, Spain |
| Bernard Gonik | Professor and Fann Srere Endowed Chair of Perinatal Medicine | Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA |
| Clare Cutland | Senior Researcher |
Medical Research Council: Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, Johannesburg, South Africa Department of Science and Technology National Research Foundation, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, South Africa Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Frederick Wittke | Vaccine manufacturer | Debiopharm International SA, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| Flor M. Munoz | Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases, and Molecular Virology and Microbiology | Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA |
| Jim Buttery | Department of Paediatrics |
SAEFVIC, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Victoria, Australia Infection and Immunity, Monash Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute, Monash University, Australia |
| Jose F. Cordero | Professor and Director | University of Puerto Rico Graduate School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Julie-Anne Quinn | Research Coordinator | SAEFVIC, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Victoria, Australia / Infection and Immunity, Monash Children’s Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute, Monash University, Australia |
| Lourdes Frau | Consultant / Owner / Managing director | LMF Pharmacoepidemiology, New York, USA |
| Manoj Das | Director Projects | INCLEN Trust International, India |
| Savia Pye | Communicable Disease Prevention and Control Nurse Consultant | Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Sonali Kocchar | Medical Director | Global Healthcare Consulting, India |
| Tamala Mallett-Moore | Global Pharmacovigilance | Global Pharmacovigilance, Sanofi Pasteur, Swiftwater, USA |
| Tony Nunes | Epidemiologist | Optum Epidemiology, Providence, USA |
| Wan-Ting Huang | Deputy Chief Medical Officer | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases, Atlanta, GA |
| Wendy Watson | Senior Director, Vaccines Clinical Research | Pfizer Inc, Collegeville, USA |