HIGHLIGHTS

Mrs Teiti Bwenawa receives GAELF Travel Award
Mrs Teiti Bwenawa from Kiribati received the cumulative highest score and was awarded the travel grant to attend this year's ASTMH meeting in Philadelphia, USA. To read Mrs Bwenawa's story click here

7th GAELF Meeting

Provisional dates (17th-18th November 2012) have been set for the 7th GAELF meeting in Washington DC, USA.

Representative Contact Group


The Represenative Contact Group (RCG) consists of country representatives from each of the regions and representives of a number of other constitencies including the pharmaceutical industry, academic/research insitutions, donors, non-governmental organisations, the World Health Organization and the World Bank.

Please find below a list of RCG members (incluidng their contact details).

AFRICA

Nigeria

Tanzania

Togo

Munirah Jinadu
Department of Public Health
Federal Ministry of Health
Abuja
Nigeria

Mwele Malecela
LF Programme
National Institute for Medical Research
Box 9653
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania

Komlan Nabilou
Programme Natioanl Elimination Lymphatique Filariose
BP 336
Lome
Togo

E:myjinadu@yahoo.com

E:mmalecela@hotmail.com

E: nakoseb@yahoo.fr

     

Americas

Dominican Republic

Haiti

Manuel Gonzalez
Centro Nacional de Control de Enfermedades Tropicales
Planta Hospital Jaime Mota
Av. Casandra Damirón Esq.
Tony Mota
Barahona
Dominican Republic

Marie Denise Milord
National Malaria Control Program
Ministry of Public Health and Population
Rue MG
Guilloux
Palace of Ministers
Port-au-Prince
Haiti

E: manuelgonpe@gmail.com

E: mdenisemilord@yahoo.com

 

 

Eastern Mediterranean

Egypt

Yemen


Hussein Kamal
Ministry of Health and Population
Cairo
Egypt

Abdul Samid Al Kubati
National Focal Point for Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis
City of Lights
PO Box 55722
Taiz
Yemen

E: h.kammal@doctor.com

E: nlep@y.nt.ye

 

 

Indian Sub-Continent

Bangladesh

India

Moazzem Hossein
House No.401, 3rd floor
Road No.29
New DOHS
Mohakkhali  Dhaka  1212
Bangladesh

PL Joshi
National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme
22 Shamnath Marg
Delhi
Pin 110054
India

E: directordcbd@gmail.com

E: namp@ndc.vsnl.net.in

 

 

Mekong-Plus

Phillippines

 

Leda Hernandez
National Center for Disease Prevention and
Control Department of Health
Building 13, 3rd floor
San Lazaro Compound
Santa Cruz
Manila
Philippines

 

E: dr_ledamher@yahoo.com

 

 

 

PacCARE

Cook Islands

Papua New Guinea

Charlie Ave
Public Health Department
Ministry of Health
P.O. Box 109
Tupapa
Rarotonga
Cook Islands

Leo Maikita
Malaria and Vector Borne Diseases
Department of Health
P O Box 807
Waigani
Papua New Guinea

E: c.ave@health.gov.cuk

E: makitals@global.net.pg

 

 

Regional PRG Chairs

Africa

Americas

Charles Ravaonjanahary
II A 130 bis Nanisana
101 Antananarivo
Madagascar

Jean-Francois Vely
Rue Theodule No 1
Port au Prince
Haiti

E: ravac@netclub.mg

E: joeve_44@yahoo.com

 

 

Eastern Mediterranean

Indian Sub-Continent


Maged El-Setouhy
Public Health Department
Faculty of Medicine
Ain Shams University
Cairo
Egypt

Sombat Chayabejara
107 Soi Pattanakam 53
Suanluang
Bangkok 10250
Thailand

E: setouhy@yahoo.com

E: sombat@yahoo.com

 

 

Mekong-Plus

PacCARE

 

CP Ramachandran
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Universiti Putra Malaysia
Serdang
Malaysia

 

E: ramacp@hotmail.com

 

 

Non-Governmental Organisations

IMA World Health
Charles Franzen
IMA World Health
PO Box 429
500 Main Street, Old Main Building
New Windsor
Maryland 21776
USA

Centers for Disease Control
Frank Richards

 

E:  charlesfranzen@interchurch.org

E: fxr1@cdc.gov

 

 

DFID
David Molyneux
Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Pembroke Place
Liverpool
L3 5QA

GTZ
Sybille Rehmet
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit GTZ
Dag-Hammarskjöld-Weg 1-5
Postfach 5180
65726 Eschborn
Germany

E: david.molyneuxd@liv.ac.uk

E: Sybille.rehmet@gtz.de

 

 

Pharmaceutical Industry

GlaxoSmithKline
Andy Wright
GlaxoSmithKline
980 Great West Road
Brentford
Middlesex
TW8 9GS

Merck & Co Inc
Ken Gustavsen
Global Product Donations
Merck & Co. Inc.
1 Merck Drive
Whitehouse Station
NJ 08889
USA

E: Andy.I.Wright@gsk.com

E: ken_gustavsen@merck.com

 

 

Academic/Research Institutions

KEMRI, Kenya
Njeri Wamae
Centre for Microbiology Research
Kenya Medical Research Institute
PO Box 54840 00200
Nairobi
Kenya

VCRC, India
PK Das
Vector Control Research Centre
Medical Complex
Indira Nagar
Pondicherry
605 006
India

E: nwamae@kemri-nuitm.or.ke

E: pkdas707@gmail.com

 

 

World Health Organization

Gautam Biswas
World Health Organization
Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
20 Avenue Appia
CH-1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland

Dirk Engels
World Health Organization
Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases
20 Avenue Appia
CH 1211 Geneva 27
Switzerland

E: biswasg@who.int

E: englesd@who.int

 

 

World Bank

Bernhard Liese
The World Bank
Room MC2-429
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC  20433
USA

 

E: bliese@worldbank.org