External Advisory Panel

  • Dr. Tom Fletcher (Chair; Senior Clinical Lecturer, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Defence Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK)
  • Dr. M Vivekanandan (Co-Chair; Professor, Department of Medicine & Head, Department of Emergency Medicine, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puduchery, India)
  • Dr. Tom Solomon (Director, National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections; Head, Brain Infections Group; Professor, Neurological Science; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Liverpool University Hospital, UK)
  • Dr. Priya Sampath Kumar (Chair, Infection Prevention & Control and Infectious Disease Physician, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA)
  • Dr. Mayur Ramesh (Infectious Diseases Specialist, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
  • Dr. George Alangaden (Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases, Henry Ford Health System, Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan, USA)
  • Dr. Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe (Programme Area Manager for Infectious Hazard Management, World Health Organization South East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India)
  • Dr. Anuj Sharma (Technical Officer โ€“ Antimicrobial Resistance; Health Laboratories World Health Organization Country Office for India, New Delhi, India)
  • Dr. Guy Thwaites (Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist; Director of Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
  • Dr. Marissa Alejandria (Professor, Clinical Epidemiology & Infectious Diseases; Director, Institute of Clinical Epidemiology, National Institutes of Health University of the Philippines Manila; President, Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
  • Dr. Lydia John (Physician, Kotagiri Medical Fellowship Hospital, Nilgiris, Tamilnadu, India)
  • Dr. Padma Paul (Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, CMC Vellore)
  • Dr. Subhasish Kamal Guha (Director, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata, India)
  • Dr. Balram Bhargava (Director General, Indian Council of Medical Research)
  • Dr. Thomas Paul (Professor, Department of Endocrinology, CMC Vellore)
  • Dr. Johnny Oommen (Deputy Medical Superintendent, Christian Hospital, Bissamcuttack, Odisha)
  • Dr. George Philip (Medical Superintendent, Christian Fellowship Hospital, Oddanchatram, Tamil Nadu)
  • Dr. Thomas Pulimood (Consultant Respiratory & General Physician & Fellow and Director of studies (clinical) for Graduate Medicine, Wolfson College, Cambridge University)