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Avian Flu Experts



U.S. Government

USAID
Dennis Carroll
Heads the Avian and Pandemic Influenza Management and Response Unit
Recently led a session at the USAID Mini-University on Avian Flu

USGAO
Marcia Crosse
US GAO, Director, Health Care

HHS
Anthony Fauci
NIAID Director, NIH

Bruce Gellin
National Vaccine Program Office, DHHS

Julie Gerberding
Director, CDC

Ram Koppaka
CDC Division of Quarantine

Captain Anne Schuchat
Acting Director, National Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC

Dr. Kanta Subbarao, NIH
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases - Respiratory Viruses Section

Dr. Brian Murphy, NIH
Co-Chief, Laboratory of Infectious Diseases

International

Dr. David Nabarro
Newly appointed UN Coordinator for avian and human influenza

Dr. Stefano Marangon
OIE Reference Laboratory at the IZS Venezia, Italy

Dr. Ian Brown
OIE Reference Laboratory Weybridge, UK

Dr. Nicolas Gaidet
CIRAD-EMVT, France

Prof. Bjorn Olsen
Infektionskliniken Kalmar, Sweden

Dr. Vittorio Guberti
IZS Venezia, Italy

Experts

Dr. Michael Osterholm
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP)
Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security-funded National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD)

Dr. Louise Fresco
FAO Assistant Director-General, Agriculture Department

Laurie Garrett
Senior Fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations
Delivered talk "The Scientific, Health and Political Implications of an Avian Flu Pandemic"

Tara O'Toole
CEO of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Center for Biosecurity
Participated in Hill briefing October 12, 2005

Gregory A. Poland
Mayo Clinic and the Infectious Diseases Society of America
participated in Hill briefing October 12, 2005

Constance Hanna
occupational health specialist
participated in Hill briefing October 12, 2005

Isaac Weisfuse
NYC deputy health commissioner
participated in Hill briefing October 12, 2005

Community

Andrew Pavia
Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)
University of Utah Medical Center Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Ralph Tripp
Georgia Research Alliance Chair of Animal Health

Dr. Shelley Hearne
Executive Director, Trust for America's Health

Pharma/Private Industry

Phillip Hobach
Vice President, Immunization Policy and Government Relations, US Sanofi Pasteur

Dominick Iacuzio
Medical Director, Hoffmann-LaRoche

Journalists/Authors

John Barry
authored "The Great Influenza"

Helen Branswell
medical writer for the Canadian Press
reports extensively on the avian flu and the SARS virus
CDC Knight Public Health Journalism Fellow