Reference Group

Government/Intergovernmental Organizations Academia/Professional Organizations/Clinical Care Industry Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Services, Bangkok, Thailand Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA Aventis Pasteur MSD, Lyon, France California Department of Health Services,Berkeley, USA Baylor University School of Medicine, Providence, USA Aventis Pasteur, Canada Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel Aventis Pasteur, Lyon, France Children Healthcare Services, Stockholm, Sweden Childrens Hospital of Phildelphia, Philadelphia, USA Berna Biotech AG, Kusnacht, Switzerland Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore, India Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Chiron Vaccines, Buseck, Germany Department of Communicable Disease Control, Nonthaburi, Thailand Cochrane Collaboration, Rome, Italy Covidence GmbH, Eschborn, Germany Department of Defense, USA Constella Health Sciences, Durham, USA Glaxo Smithkline Beecham, Rixensart, Belgium Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, USA Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, USA Instituto Finlay, Havana, Cuba Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada Harbor-University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles, USA International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Geneva, Switzerland Health Resources & Services Administration, Rockville,USA Hospital Clinic i Provincial de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Merck, Sharp & Dohme, Hong Kong Institut National de Santé Publique du Québec, Quebec, Canada Immunization Action Coalition, St Paul, USA VaxGen, Inc, Brisbane, USA Instituto de Biofisica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Canada Wyeth Research, Collegeville, USA Instituto Nacional de Salud, Lima, Peru Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA Wyeth, Berkshire, UK Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan Wyeth, Pearl River, USA Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda Kaiser Permante, USA   National Center for Immunization Research and Surveillance, Westmead, Australia Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden   National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans, USA   National Institute of Health, Seoul, People's Rep of Korea Michigan State University, Lansing,USA   National Institute of Human Viral Diseases, Pergamino, Argentina Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, USA   National Institute of Infectious Disease, Tokyo, Japan Northeastern Ohio Universities, Akron, USA   National Institute of Public Health and Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands Oxford Vaccine Group, UK   National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland Pennridge Pediatric Associates, Pittsburg, USA   Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Olso, Norway Primary Physicians Research Center, Pittsburg, USA   Pharmacovigilance Centre, Rabat, Morocco Royal Children Hospital, Melbourne, Australia   Program for Appropriate Tech in Health (PATH), Hyderabad, India Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran   Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany Spanish Association of Vaccinology, Murcia, Spain   Stichting Lareb, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands St. Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK   Swedish Institute of Infectious Disease Control, Lund, Sweden Stanford University, Stanford, USA   Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, Bern, Switzerland Swiss National Vaccine Commission, Switzerland   World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland   World Health Organization, Lyon,France University of Californai Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, USA   University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA   University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA   University of Maryland, College Park, USA   University of New Jersey, Morris Plains, USA   University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil   University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA   University of Washington, Seattle, USA   Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA   Women and Children Hospital, Adelaide, Australia

Reference group participants by name

Name Department Affiliation Country Ahmadipour Nooshin Immunization and Respiratory Infections Division Health Canada (Population and Public Health Branch) CAN Alonso Navarro Antonio Jose Consejería de Sanidad Spanish Association of Vaccinology ESP Asensi Francesca     ESP Azevedo Raymundo Pathology School of Medicine, University of São Paulo BRA Azze Ochoa Rolando Immunology Department / Applied Scientific Technical Assistance (DACTA) Instituto Finlay CUB Baker Carol J Pediatrics Baylor College of Medicine USA Banco Leonard Pediatrics   USA Barnes Graeme Dept of Gastroenterology and Clinical Nutrition Royal Children's Hospital AUS Bass Dorsey Pediatrics Stanford University USA Bentsi-Enchill Adwoa   WHO Geneva CHE Blennow Margaret   Child health Care Services SWE Blum Michael Report Evaluation and Safety Surveillance, Global Safety Surveillance and Epidemiology Wyeth Research USA Blumberg Dean Pediatrics UC Davis Medical Center USA Bonhoeffer Jan Pediatrics University Basel CHE Bostrom Ann   Georgia Tech USA Bourquin Catherine AEFI surveillance Swiss Federal Office of Public Health CHE Brown Arthur Retrovirology Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS THA Bulos-Khuri Najwa Peds Inf Diseases Jordan University Hospital JOR Catton Mike Victoria Infectious Disease Reference Lab   AUS Cherian Thomas Child Health WHO / Christian Medical Collage and Hospital IND Cohen George   Kaiser Permanente USA Couper Mary Quality & Safety of Medicines WHO CHE Delattre Dominique Pharmacovigilance Aventis Pasteur MSD FRA Dennehy Penelope Ped Infect disease Brown Uni Sch of Med, Rhode Island Hosp USA Desgrandchamps Daniel   Swiss Kommission for Vaccines (SKIF) CHE Duclos Philippe Vaccines and Other Biologicals WHO, Geneva CHE Edwards-Ivor Ralph     SWE Edwards Kathy Pediatrics Vanderbilt University USA Enria A. Delia Direction National Institute of Human Viral Diseases ARG Evengard Birgitta Dept Laboratory Medicine Karolinska Institute SWE Evans Geoffrey Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation HRSA USA Fisher Margaret (Meg) Committee on Infectious Disease Monmouth Medical Center, American Academy of Pediatrics USA Fitzner Julia Epidemiological Support Team WHO, France FRA Frieden Ilona Department of Dermatology UCSF USA Friedlander Sheila Pediatric/Dermatology UCSD Medical Center USA Gold Mike University Department of Paediatrics and the South Australian Immunisation; Coordination Unit Womens and Childrens Hospital AUS Gold Ronald   Aventis Pasteur CAN Goldenthal Karen OVRR DVRPA FDA USA Grabenstein John   DoD USA Gurwith Marc   VaxGen, Inc USA Hackell Jill   Wyeth USA Halsey Neal International Health JHSPH USA Handjani Farhad Dermatology Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, IRN Hansen John KP Vaccine Study Center NCK Kaiser Permanente USA Hartmann Katharina Pharmacovigilance Berna Biotech AG CHE Hartmann Klaus Pharmacovigilance Paul Ehrlich Institut DEU Hayden Gregory F Pediatrics University of Virginia USA Heijbel Harald   Swedish Institut of Infectious Diseases Control SWE Heininger Ulrich PIDS and Vaccines University Basel CHE Hoet Bernard Global Safety Surveillance Glaxo Smithkline Beecham BEL Iskander John Childhood Vaccine Preventable Disease CDC-NIP USA Jackson Lisa Center for Health Studies Center for Health Studies USA Jee Youngmee Laboratory of Enteroviruses, Department of Virology National Institute of Health, Ministry of Health and Welfare PRK Jefferson Tom Reparto Epidemiologia Clinica Cochrane Collaboration ITA John Jacob     IND Jones Connell Marcy Information and Education Section California DHS Immunization Branch USA Kabongo Martin Family Medicine University of California, San Diego USA Kiran-Mentey Vijay Immunisation PATH IND Kleppinger Cynthia F. NIDA NIH USA Knezevich Ivana Quality and Safety of Biologicals WHO CHE Kohl Daniele Training GSK Bio BEL Kohl Katrin National Immunization Program CDC USA Labadie Jerry Dutch Pharmacovigilance Foundation Stichting Lareb NLD Lankinen Kari     FIN Lawrence Glenda NA National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance AUS MacDonald Noni Dept of Peadiatrics IWK Health Centre, GACVS CAN Makhene Dique Office of Clinical Research Affairs NIH USA Marcy Mike Pediatrics Harbor-UCLA Medical Center USA McIntosh G David Medical Division Wyeth GBR Menard Suzanne ESPRI Public Health CAN Mendelson Ella Central Virology Laboratory Chaim Sheba Medical Center ISR Meyer Christiane FG 23 Infektionsepidemiologie Robert Koch Institut DEU Morikawa Shigeru Virology National Institute of Infectious Diseases JPN Morin Odette Regulatory and Scientific Affairs International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA) CHE Moser Charlotte Vaccine Education Center The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia USA Moussatché Nissin Laboratório de Biologia Molecular de Vírus Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho - UFRJ BRA Moxon Richard   Oxford Vaccine Group GBR Nalin David Retired, former Merck David R. Nalin, Consultant in Vaccinology USA Nelson Tony Paediatric Chinese University of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital HKG Nimmannitya Suchitra Dept of Communicable Disease Control, MOPH Div of General Communicable Disease; Bldg D, 2nd Floor THA Nsubuga Jane None None USA Oleske James Division of Allergy, Immunology and Infectious Diseases University Hospital, New Jersey Medical School USA Olin Patrick Immunization   SWE Pickering Larry OD ISDA USA Plesner Anne Marie Statens Serum Institut   DNK Pless Robert Division of Immunization and Respiratory Diseases,Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Health Canada (Population and Public Health Branch) CAN Poerschke Gabriele Clinical & Regulatory affairs, Vaccines, Asia Pacific Region of MSD Merck, Sharp & Dohme (Asia) Ltd. HKG Postila Ville Vaccines, Clinical Unit National Public Health Institute FIN Powell Keith Pediatrics Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine USA Reisinger Keith   Primary Physicians Research Center USA Rennels Margaret Pediatrics University Maryland USA Rothstein Edward none Pennridge Pediatric Associates USA Rueggeberg Jens Child health and Vaccine Institute St. Georges Hospital Medical School GBR Sanabria Hernan Departamento Médico Instituto Nacional de Salud PER Sandbu Synne Division of Infectious Disease Control Norwegian Institute of Public Health NOR Schaad Urs B Pediatrics