Stripe
Synthesis and Translation of Research and Innovation from Polio Eradication
Technical Advisory Committee
The Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) comprises of individuals representing faculty from schools of public health in low- and middle- income countries and high-income countries, experts representing core GPEI partners (WHO, UNICEF, BMGF, CDC, Rotary International), Ministries of Health, NGOs, and other relevant agencies.
The TAC’s role is to advise the consortium on focusing knowledge mapping activities, assist in accessing GPEI data, conduct internal reviews on key knowledge products, and provide access to high-level global stakeholders to facilitate dissemination of knowledge products from the project.
David Peters
Position: TAC Chair
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University (USA)
David H. Peters is Professor and Chair of the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a specialist in international health systems, and has worked as a researcher, policy advisor, educator, bureaucrat, manager, and clinician over the last two...
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Olakunle Alonge
Position: Primary Investigator
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Olakunle Alonge, MD, PhD, MPH is a public health physician and an associate professor in international health at the Johns Hopkins University. His expertise is in implementation science and health systems research. His research and practice focuses on advancing global health and supporting effective...
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Aditi Rao
Position: TAC Secretariat
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Aditi Rao is a Research Associate in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In addition to serving as the Secretariat to the project’s Technical Advisory Committee, Aditi is engaged in all elements of research design, data collection, analysis...
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Zulfiqar Bhutta
Position: TAC Member
Affiliation: SickKids Centre for Global Child Health (Canada)
Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is the inaugural Robert Harding Chair in Global Child Health at the Hospital for Sick Children, Director of Research at the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health, and the Founding Director of the Center of Excellence in Women and Child at Aga Khan University in Pakistan. He is a...
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Steve Cochi
Position: TAC Member
Affiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (USA)
Dr. Stephen L. Cochi is the Senior Advisor to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Global Immunization Division (GID). Stephen has spent 36 years at CDC working in the field of immunization, led activities for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), Global M...
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Sue Gerber
Position: TAC Member
Affiliation: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (USA)
Sue Gerber is a Senior Program Officer of the Polio Initiative at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She manages a portfolio of grants, contracts and consultations that support surveillance, program operations, operational research and innovations. She is also a member of the Global Surveillance...
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Ajay Khera
Position: TAC Member
Affiliation: Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (India)
Dr. Ajay Khera is a public health specialist and Deputy Commissioner at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. He is a specialist in epidemiological surveillance and outbreak investigation of infectious diseases including vaccine preventable diseases. He has extensive experience in immuni...
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Anne Matthews
Position: TAC Member
Affiliation: Rotary International (USA)
Anne L. Matthews, from Columbia, SC, USA, is a Past Vice President of Rotary International. She has served as a Trustee of the Rotary Foundation and as a Director of Rotary International. She served on numerous committees for Rotary and presently is chair of the Polio Advocacy Task Force for the Uni...
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Jean-Jacques Muyembe
Position: TAC Member
Affiliation: National Institute for Biomedical Research (DRC)
Jean-Jacques Muyembe is Director-General of the Democratic Republic of the Congo National Institute for Biomedical Research, and Professor of Microbiology at Kinshasa University Medical School. He is also an adviser to the WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee regarding Ebola. H...
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