Advisory Committee
The Scientific Advisory Committee of the open leaning web site on enteric pathogens includes experts in the field with a great experience on research and training collaboration with developing countries or belonging to important scientific or public health institutions from developing countries.
The aims of the Committee are to select educational materials such as lectures, for publication on the website and to promote collaborative activities between members of the network.
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MD, is Full Professor of Microbiology at the University of Sassari in Italy. He has engaged in university, research, and health cooperation projects with partners in Angola, Brazil, Colombia, India, Jordan, Morocco, Mozambique, Pakistan, Peru, Senegal,and Zimbabwe. Worked as an expert of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for health and university projects in Angola, Moroco, and Zimbabwe. Member of a WHO steering committee on Laboratory Partnership. Scientific interest are mechanisms of pathogenicity, host specificity, resistance to antibiotic in Salmonella and molecular epidemiology. |
MD, is Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Sassari. After spending several years in foreign universities including five years in Africa for cooperation on capacity building in training and research he is now involved in projects for the organization of research and training infrastructures in developing countries. Present scientific interest are on microbial pathogenicity, molecular epidemiology and development of diagnostic for infectious diseases. He is a member of the Italian National Academy. |
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PhD, is Associate Professor of Microbiology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Member of the National Research Council since 1985. Winner of the International Foundation for Science "King Baudouin award" in 1993 and Scientific Advisor since 1994. She was a Research Fellow and Instructor at Georgetown University, Washington DC. USA. At present she is the Chair of the Ambassador Caucus of the American Society for Microbiology and she is serving her third term as Ambassador to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile. Her scientific interest comprises: bacteria-host interactions, and immunity against Salmonella enterica. |
Associate Professor of General Microbiology at the University of Rome, la Sapienza, in Italy. He has engaged in university teaching and research, and health cooperation projects in developing Countries, mainly in Angola and Mozambique. He has worked as expert and/or project manager of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for health and university projects in Angola and Mozambique. His scientific interests are mechanisms of pathogenicity, drug resistance, genetic mobile elements and molecular epidemiology in clinical and environmental Vibrio, Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Staphylococcus. |
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PhD, Associate professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Birzeit University in Palestine, he had engaged in University research and cooperation in research projects with partners in Belgium, France, United Kingdome and United states. |
PhD, FRC Path. is a full professor at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, and director General of the Biomedical Research & Training Institute in Harare, Zimbabwe. He has been extensively involved in research into a wide range of infectious diseases. He has designed regional and international courses on technical aspects of this research as well as more general courses on ethical issues in research, writing grant proposals and writing papers for publication. He has worked closely with colleagues in Italy, England, the USA and Vietnam, as well as with many other countries in Africa. Current research activities areconcerned with diarrhoeal diseases, antimicrobial resistance and HIV-related infections in Zimbabwe. He has published extensively, with morethan 150 publications in international and local journals, and has written chapters in a number of textbooks on infectious diseases. |
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Medical Officer at the WHO Lyon Office for Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response (EPR), France. He works in a specialized programme for the development of global capacity in communicable disease surveillance and public health laboratory activities. He trains and works with microbiologists from developing countries in South East Asia, Middle East, Europe and Africa for building laboratory capacity for detection and control of communicable diseases. Before joing WHO in 2002, he served as associate professor of microbiology at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan. In addition to research activities, he taught introductory biological sciences, general and medical microbiology, and microbial ecology courses at undergraduate and graduate level. His research interest was on enteric diseases and the use of conventional and molecular biology techniques in epidemiology and diagnostic microbiology. He has collaborated with researchers in renowned institutions in France, Germany and has spent 4 years as guest researcher at the Foodborne and Diarrheal Disease Branch at the CDC, Atlanta, USA. |
Dr Sébastien Cognat, Pharm D, Msc, works as a laboratory medicine specialist in the WHO Lyon Office For National Epidemic Preparedness and Response. He studied and worked in different fields of medical laboratory (microbiology, biochemistry, hematology, immunology and parasitology) in the University teaching Hospitals and faculty of Pharmacy in Lyon, France. After a first overseas experience in Madagascar, he joined the WHO Lyon office to support the resource-limited laboratory capacity strengthening activities in the framework of the epidemic and pandemic alert and response systems: laboratory assessments, laboratory trainings, organization of external quality assessment schemes, laboratory twinnings, and a WHO Internet resource Center for National Public Health Laboratory. |
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After graduating in Biological sciences and training as a biomedical scientist John Wain spent two years in Northern Nigeria teaching public health and clinical microbiology. After this he pursued a career in the basic science of infectious diseases of the tropics. He graduated with an MSc. in parasitology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and earned his PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK in molecular biology of typhoid fever. He has spent seven years working in Vietnam, as head of microbiology research at The Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Unit and 4 years at The Centre for Molecular Microbiology and Infection, Imperial College working on tuberculosis in Mexico. Dr. Wain is currently a faculty member at The Welcome Trust Sanger Institute and specialises in human restricted serovars of Salmonella enterica and antibiotic resistance. He is a member of the WHO working group on typhoid fever and acts as a consultant microbiologist for The International Vaccine Institute, Korea. He supervises PhD students in Afghanistan and Vietnam and has collaborative projects in Pakistan, India, China, Kenya and Malawi. |
Public health and clinical microbiologist working in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA with over 20 years experience in enteric bacteriology and parasitology. His interests include implementing rapid detection methods for bacterial and viral foodborne outbreaks, molecular bacterial subtyping of bacteria and molecular serotyping of Salmonella and detection of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli. |
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She is engaged in teaching undergraduate medical students using a problem based learning approach. She has been involved in academic, research and healthcare activities / collaborative projects in Hong Kong, Kingdom of Bahrain, Trindidad and Tobago, United Kingdom & Nigeria. Her research interests include molecular pathogenesis and antimicrobial resistance of bacterial infection in the gastrointestinal tract with special focus on Campylobacter, Probiotics in gastrointestinal and urogenital infections, Sexually transmitted infections with particular interest in genital Chlamydia infection & bacterial vaginosis, and Mechanisms of innate protection in malaria. |
PhD, is a Principal Research Scientist working in the Centre for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute. He is also co-ordinator for the CDC/WHO EQAS Programme in Kenya and a Faculty member, Faculty1000 Medicine. Scientific interests are studies in molecular epidimiology, mechanisms of pathogenicity and resistance to antibiotics in Salmonella enterica and E. coli. |
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Sr. Microbiologist at Safdarjung Hospital and Assoc Vardhman Mahavir Medical college, New Delhi India. She is working Clinical microbiologist and Infection control officer and is also involved in teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. Her main areas of work and scientific interest include surveillance and characterization of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial and community pathogens. |
Senior Lecturer of Microbiology and Food Hygiene at the University of the Basque Country in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. He is member of the European Study Group on Epidemiological Markers (ESGEM) from the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). He has developed basic and applied research projects in epidemiology of infectious diseases, in cooperation with European and North American laboratories. Scientific interests are development of molecular typing methods for epidemiological study of enteric infections and new diagnostic procedures for enteric pathogens based on polymerase chain reaction. |
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MD, she's head of the Disease Surveillance Unit which is responsible for the surveillance and control of communicable diseases in Malta. She graduated as a medical doctor and obtained her masters degree in Public health medicine in 2000. She is a registered specialist in Public Health Medicine and is responsible for modules in communicable diseases and epidemiology at the University of Malta. She has great interest in research work especially in the field of epidemiology. She is currently reading for a PhD degree with the University of Malta in communicable disease epidemiology.. |
SrPh.D. is a research scientist and principal investigator at the U.S. FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research in Arkansas, USA. The focus of Dr. Nayak's research program is to address these food biosecurity threats that have direct impact in developing FDA's regulatory policies and safe guarding public health in the U.S. His scientific research involves determining the origin and source tracking of bacterial pathogens using conventional and novel molecular typing methods (epidemiology), and elucidating the emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistances and pathogenicity in select biological agents. Dr. Nayak's scientific accomplishments have enabled the FDA to rapidly identify, fingerprint and determine the infectious nature of bacterial pathogens. Dr. Nayak's has ongoing collaborations with Federal Agencies, State Government, universities and a non-profit organization in the United States. Dr. Nayak is a member of the American Society of Microbiology, an online mentor of the ASM's Minority Program, and an Ad Hoc reviewer to peer-reviewed journals such as Food Safety, Veterinary Microbiology and Food Microbiology. |
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Ph. D., is Professor of Genetics at the University of Seville, Spain. He received training in molecular microbiology at the CSIC (Granada, Spain), the University of Sussex (Falmer, England) and the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, USA). He has been visiting professor at the Biozentrum Basel (Basle, Switzerland) and the University of Sassari (Sassari, Italy). He is the current ambassador of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in Western Europe. His laboratory investigates the regulation of gene expression by DNA adenine methylation and the role of DNA repair functions in Salmonella virulence. |
Pharma D, Ph D, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the University of Dakar in Senegal (West Africa). She is also researcher in Pasteur Institute in Dakar. Her topics of interest are the molecular epidemiology of Gram negative enteric pathogens, the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance, transmission of resistance genes, and pathogenicity. She collaborates with partners in " Réseau des Instituts Pasteur et Instituts Associés ", in the University of Limoges (France) and in the University of Sassari (Italy). |
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MD, is Associate Professor of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology at the Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Croatia. She is involved in university teaching and research as well as in routine laboratory diagnostics. Her scientific interests are mechanisms of pathogenicity, host specificity, drug resistance in clinical and environmental Campylobacter isolates. |
Prof. Moustafa El-Shenawy was born in 1951, obtained his B.Sc, and M.Sc. degrees from Egyptian universities, Ph.D degree in Food Safety from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Bucharest Romania. He was awarded three postdoctoral fellowships in the field of Food Microbiology where he conducted research about food-borne pathogens at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He conducted several local research projects, attended many scientific conferences (nationl and international) and supervised many Diploma, M.Sc. and Ph.D thesis in food and environmental microbiology. He is one of the known cited researchers in the area of food sanitation, has generated basic knowledge about safety of Egyptian foods. His work is directed mainly towards issues of food safety. In 1974 started as an assistant researcher at Dept.of Food Microbiology. He was promoted until he held the position of full Prof. in 1998. He is the author of more than 50 International and national publications. |
