Dr Benedetta Allegranzi, Technical Officer, Service Delivery and Safety, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr Jean Christophe Aze, Technical Officer, Global Capacities, Alert and Response, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Yolanda Bayugo, Technical Officer, Global Capacities, Alert and Response, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Sophie Boisson, Technical Officer, Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Sylvie Briand, Director, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Caroline Cross, Director, Staff Health and Wellbeing Services, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Sergey Eremin, Medical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Pierre Formenty, Scientist, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Joyce Hightower, Technical Officer, Service Delivery and Safety, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Ivan Ivanov, Scientist, Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr François Jorda, Procurement Officer, Operational Support and Services, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Edward Kelley, Director, Service Delivery and Safety, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Elizabeth Mathai, Consultant, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Junko Okumura, Consultant, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Carmem Pessoa-Silva, Medical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Ms Charlotte Rasmussen, Technical Officer, Global Malaria Programme, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Andreas Reis, Technical Officer, Health Statistics and Information Systems, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Mikiko Senga, Technical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Nahoko Shindo, Medical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Constanza Vallenas, Medical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland (responsible technical officer)

Mrs Adriana Velazquez Berumen, Senior Adviser, Essential Medicines and Health Products, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Jean-Bosco Ndihokubwayo, Regional Adviser, Health Systems and Services, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo

Mrs Ana Paula Coutinho, Technical Officer, Communicable Diseases and Health Security, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr Bardan Rana, Regional Adviser, International Health Regulations, WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, India

Ms Astrid Chojnacki, Consultant, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines

Dr Emma Aarons, Consultant Virologist and Infectious Disease Physician, Public Health England, Rare and Imported Pathogens Laboratory, Porton Down, England

Dr Daniel G. Bausch, Director, Virology and Emerging Infections Department, US Naval Medical Research Unit-6, Lima, Peru, and Associate Professor, Department of Tropical Medicine, Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, United States of America (Chair)

Dr Bryan Christensen, Lieutenant Commander, US Public Health Service, Domestic Healthcare Infection Control Team, 2014 CDC Ebola Response, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Ms An Caluwaerts, IPC focal point, Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

Mr Chad Dowell, Lieutenant Commander, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States of America

Dr Alain Epelboin, Researcher in Medical Anthropology, National Centre for Scientific Research and National Museum of Natural History, Paris, France

Dr Mauricio Ferri, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States of America

Professor Shaheen Mehtar, Extraordinary Professor, Chair of Infection Control Africa Network (ICAN), Academic Unit for Infection Prevention and Control, Division of Community Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Dr Robert Musoke, Senior Epidemiologist, Resource Center, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Professor Babacar Ndoye, Expert Consultant/Trainer, Infection Control Africa Network, Ministry of Health and Prevention of Senegal, Infection Control Africa Network, Dakar, Senegal

Professor Didier Pittet, University Hospital of Geneva, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Charles Senessie, Founder and President, Afro-European Medical and Research Network (AEMRN), Bern, Switzerland

Dr Bassim Zayed, Coordinator, National Infection Control Program, Department of Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman

Professor Matthias Egger, Epidemiology and Public Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Ms Adrienne Stevens, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Dr Saskia den Boon, Independent Consultant, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr May Chu, Assistant Director for Public Health, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, USA

Ms Nagwa Hasanin, Technical Specialist, UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dr Anne Iten, University Hospital of Geneva, WHO Collaborating Centre on Patient Safety, Geneva, Switzerland

Ms Catherine Villegas, Pharmacist, Medical Devices, Médecins sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

Professor Mathilde Bourrier, Department of Sociology, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr Jerry Brown, Ebola Treatment Centre, Monrovia, Liberia

Ms Katherine Defalco, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

Dr Ibrahima Elhadj Bah, Donka Hospital, Conakry, Guinea

Dr Mushtuq Hosain, Principal Scientific Officer, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dr Sandra Lako, Country Director, Welbodi Partnership, Freetown, Sierra Leone

Dr Fernando Otaiza, Chief, National Infection Prevention and Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Santiago, Chile

Dr Diamantis Plachouras, Unit of Surveillance and Response Support, European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Solna, Sweden

Ms Adrienne Stevens, Ms Mona Hersi, Ms Chantelle Garritty, Dr David Moher, Ms Pauline Quach, Ms Candyce Hamel and Dr Kednapa Thavorn, Ottawa Methods Centre, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Ms Becky Skidmore, Independent Consultant, Ottawa, Canada

Dr Melissa A. McDiarmid, Dr Joanna Gaitens, Dr Stella E. Hines, Ms Marian Condon, Ms Tracy Roth and Mr Marc Oliver, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre for Occupational Health, Baltimore, MD, United States of America

Dr Saskia den Boon, Dr Mauricio Ferri, Dr Constanza Vallenas and Dr Susan Norris