GARP International Advisory Group

Keith Klugman, Emory University, Atlanta, Chair
Zulfiqar Bhutta, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
NK Ganguly, National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, Chair of GARP India NWG
David Heymann, Health Protection Agency, London, UK
Dean Jamison, University of Washington, Seattle
Samuel Kariuki, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Chair of GARP Kenya NWG
Nguyen Van Kinh, National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (NIITD), Hanoi, Vietnam, Chair of GARP Vietnam NWG
Eric Simoes, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver

Professor Keith P. Klugman is the William H. Foege Chair of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He is also Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases of the School of Medicine. He is a Visiting Researcher in the Respiratory Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is also Co-Director of the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit, jointly sponsored by the University of the Witwatersrand, the Medical Research Council, and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa.  Professor Klugman is Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infectious Diseases and Chair of the International Board of the American Society for Microbiology, with more than 42,000 members worldwide. He has chaired expert committees for the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Wellcome Trust in London. He serves as an editor or member of the editorial board of 8 journals.  Professor Klugman’s research interests are in pneumonia, meningitis, antimicrobial resistance and vaccines for bacterial pathogens, particularly the pneumococcus. He has published more than 375 papers on these subjects.

Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta is Husein Laljee Dewraj Professor and Head of the newly created Division of Maternal and Child Health, Aga Khan University Medical Center, Karachi, Pakistan. He also holds adjunct professorships in International Health and Family and Community Medicine at the departments of International Health at Boston University and Tufts University, respectively. He was designated a Distinguished National Professor of the Government of Pakistan in 2007.  Professor Bhutta was educated at the University of Peshawar (MBBS) with a doctorate from the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (London) and the Pakistan Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bhutta has served as a member of the Global Advisory Committee for Health Research for the World Health Organization, the of Child Health and Nutrition Initiative of the Global Forum for Health Research, and the steering committees of the International Zinc and Vitamin A Nutrition Consultative Groups. He is an executive committee member of the International Paediatric Association and on the Board of the Global Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH). Dr. Bhutta is currently the Chair of the Health Sciences Group of the Biotechnology Commission of Pakistan, a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Committee for Vaccines, the Advisory Committee for Health Research of WHO EMRO, and its apex Regional Consultative Committee. He is also Chairman of the National Research Ethics Committee of the Government of Pakistan and President of the Commonwealth Association of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (CAPGAN). Dr. Bhutta is on several international editorial advisory boards including the Lancet, BMJ, PLoS Medicine and PLoS ONE and has published three books, 45 book chapters, and more 280 indexed publications.

Professor N.K. Ganguly is a Distinguished Biotechnology Fellow and Advisor at the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute in New Delhi.  He is currently Chairman of the Immunology Foundation and President of the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER).  Major areas of research throughout his distinguished career have been tropical diseases, cardiovascular diseases and diarrhoeal diseases.  Professor Ganguly has held top leadership positions at the Indian Council of Medical Research, Indian Science Congress Association, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, and National Institute of Biologicals.  Professor Ganguly is a Fellow of the Imperial College Faculty of Medicine in London, Royal College of Pathologists in London, International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences in Canada, Third World Academy of Sciences in Italy, International Medical Sciences Academy in New Delhi, National Academy of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, Indian National Science Academy in New Delhi, National Academy of Science in Allahabad, and Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore.  Professor Ganguly trained in microbiology and medicine at the University of Calcutta, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Bundelkhand University, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, and Guru Nanak Dev University.  He has published 734 papers and has been a guide for 130 PhD students.  He has won more than 100 awards, both national and International.  In January 2008, Professor Ganguly was honored with the prestigious Padma Bhushan award by Her Excellency the President of India for his work in medicine.

Dr. David L. Heymann is Chair of the Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom, and Head of the Global Centre on Health Security at Chatham House, London.  Until April 2009 he was Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication at the World Health Organization (WHO). From 1998 until 2003, he was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster, which included WHO’s programmes on infectious and tropical diseases, and from which the public health response to SARS was mounted in 2003.  Previously, he was Director of the WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and the Chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on AIDS.  Before joining WHO, Dr. Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa (Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Malawi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo [formerly Zaire]) on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Dr. Heymann earned a BA from the Pennsylvania State University, an MD from Wake Forest University, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and had practical epidemiology training in the Epidemic Intelligence Service of CDC. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S, National Academies; and has been awarded the 2004 Award for Excellence of the American Public Health Association, the 2005 Donald Mackay Award from the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, and the 2007 Heinz Award on the Human Condition. Dr. Heymann has published more than 145 scientific articles on infectious diseases and related issues in peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals and has written chapters on infectious diseases in several medical textbooks.

Dr. Dean Jamison is Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington where he co-leads the Disease Control Priorities Network (DCPN) Study. Concurrently, he is Adjunct Professor at both the Peking University Guanghua School of Management and at the University of Queensland School of Population Health in Australia. Before coming to the University of Washington, Dr. Jamison served as T & G Angelopoulos Visiting Professor of Public Health and International Development in the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Public Health, while holding a position as Professor of Development Economics at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to that, Dr. Jamison was at the World Bank for more than a decade, where he was a senior economist in the research department, division chief for education policy, and division chief for population, health and nutrition. In the early 1990s, he temporarily rejoined the World Bank to serve as Director of the World Development Report Office and as lead author for the Bank’s 1993 World Development Report, Investing in Health. In 1994, Dr. Jamison was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academies.  He has served frequently on advisory groups to national and international organizations. Dr. Jamison holds a BA in Philosophy and an MS in Engineering Science from Stanford University, and he received a PhD from the Harvard University Department of Economics.

Dr. Samuel Kariuki is the Director of the Center for Microbiology Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi.  He is also a course coordinator in Medical Microbiology at the KEMRI graduate school, and is an honorary lecturer at the Department of Microbiology, University of Liverpool.  Dr. Kariuki is a member of the Kenya Society for Microbiology, American Society for Microbiology, and the World Health Organization Advisory Group on Integrated Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance.  He is an advisory board member of the Association for Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) and is on the faculty of 1000 Medicine.  His research interests include the epidemiology and genetics of invasive salmonella infections in children and other enteric pathogens, as well as surveillance, monitoring, and genetic basis for antimicrobial resistance in enteric pathogens.  Dr. Kariuki has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals, presented 68 papers at national and international scientific conferences, and is co-editor and author of chapters in two microbiology books.

Dr. Nguyen Van Kinh, Director of the National Institute of Infectious and Tropical Diseases (NIITD), Hanoi, is an infectious disease specialist. He is a lecturer at the Hanoi School of Public Health, is head of the Infectious Disease Department of Hanoi Medical University, and serves as an advisor to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health on communicable diseases. Before becoming Director of NIITD, he was Deputy Director General of the Vietnam Administration for HIV/AIDS Control and senior expert on AIDS and communicable diseases. His primary research activities focus on HIV/AIDS control and infectious diseases in Vietnam. He received his medical training in Vietnam and completed a post-graduate course on HIV/AIDS management in France.

Professor Eric A. F. Simoes, MD, is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.  Dr. Simoes earned his medical degree from the Christian Medical College Vellore, University of Madras, India. He completed pediatric infectious diseases fellowship training at the University of Colorado at Denver School of Medicine and then joined the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics and The Children’s Hospital. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Simoes directed the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program.  He was later appointed as Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Tropical Child Health with the Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics, and Gynaecology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London.  Dr. Simoes’ scientific interests include acute respiratory infections and the development of guidelines for the management of common pediatric conditions in developing countries. He studies genetic, perinatal, and environmental risk factors for severe respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in developed and developing countries; the RSV-asthma link; and pneumococcal vaccination. Dr. Simoes has played a significant role in the World Health Organization’s initiative to reduce childhood and infant mortality throughout the world with the development of a strategy called “Integrated Management of Childhood Illness.” He has worked on this initiative since 1989, including testing and implementing its guidelines in many countries throughout Africa, Asia, and Europe.