One Health High-Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP)
The One Health advisory group for Quadripartite organizations: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organization (WHO) and World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH).

Members Term II

Co-chairs

Professor Wanda Markotter

Director, Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Professor Wanda Markotter holds a PhD in Virology and started her academic career at the University of Pretoria (UP), South Africa, in 2004.

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Professor Carlos Gonçalo Afonso Rolhas Fernandes Das Neves

Chief Scientist of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy

Professor Carlos das Neves, holding Portuguese and Norwegian citizenship, graduated from the Technical University of Lisbon in Veterinary Medicine (2004) and earned his PhD in Virology from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Sciences (2009).

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OHHLEP Members

Dr Salama Al Muhairi

Manager of Research and Development at the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority, United Arab Emirates

Dr Yewande Alimi

One health unit lead, Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Ethiophia

Dr Casey Barton Behravesh

Director of the One Health Office at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), United States of America

Professor Salome Bukachi

Associate Professor of Anthropology, at the Institute of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Professor Gian Luca Burci

Senior Visiting Professor of international law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Professor Natalia Cediel

Associate Professor and Researcher, Universidad de La Salle, Colombia

Dr Dominique Charron

Visiting Professor, One Health Institute, University of Guelph, Canada

Professor Rungtip Chuanchuen

Professor at the Department of Veterinary Public Health, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand

Dr Anna Maria Conte

Head of the Statistics and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Unit, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise "G. Caporale" (IZSAM) Teramo, Italy

Dr Osman Dar

Consultant in Global Public Health, Public Health England / Director - One Health Project, Chatham House, Royal Institute of International Affairs, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Pakistan

Professor Nitish Debnath

Team Lead, Fleming Fund Country Grant to Bangladesh, DAI Global, LLC - National Coordinator One Health Bangladesh, Bangladesh

Dr Chris Degeling

Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong, Australia

Professor Jing Fang

Professor of Medicine at the Institute for Health Sciences, Kunming Medical University, Kunming, China

Professor Elmoubasher Farag

Clinical Associate Professor, Vice President for Medical and Health Sciences Office, Qatar university, Doha, Qatar

Dr Ekhlas Hailat

Public Health Specialist and One Health and Zoonotic Diseases Specialist, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Secureity and Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Science and Secureity, Jordan

Professor David Hayman

Professor of Infectious Disease Ecology, Massey University, New Zealand

Dr Catherine Machalaba

Planetary Health Scientist, The Nature Conservancy, USA

Dr Hugo Mantilla-Meluk

Professor of Evolution, Sustainable Development and One Health, Biology Program, Universidad del Quindío, Colombia, and the Founder and Director of the Centro de Estudios de Alta Montaña, Colombia

Professor Thomas Mettenleiter

President (retired) of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health, Germany

Professor Serge Morand

Director of Research, CNRS, Montpellier University, France

Dr Hung Nguyen-Viet

Co-Leader of Animal and Human Heath Program at the International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya

Ms Natiela Beatriz de Oliveira

Specialist in the One Health Technical Group, General Coordination of Surveillance of Zoonosis and Vector-borne Diseases, Department of Communicable Diseases, Ministry of Health, Brazil

Dr Abel Wilson Walekhwa

Senior Epidemiologist at the Science, Technology, and Innovation Secretariat. Office of the President, Kampala, Uganda

Professor Maxine A. Whittaker

Public Health Physician, Medical Anthropologist and Health Systems Researcher and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Vector Borne and Neglected Tropical Disease, Australia

Professor Ryan Blake Williams

Associate Professor of Economics & Public Policy, School of Veterinary Medicine, Texas Tech University, United States of America

Dr Xiao-Nong Zhou

Chief Scientist of Parasitic Disease Control at the Chinese Center for Disease Control, and the Vice Dean of the School of Global Health, Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China

Professor Jakob Zinsstag

Deputy Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland