China releases chronicle of international cooperation on WHO-convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part(2)

Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus

2021

◆ From January to February, the WHO-China joint team (members are listed below) conducted study in China in accordance with the previously-agreed TORs for the China part of the WHO-convened global study of origins of SARS-CoV-2.

(Information on joint team members)

International experts, observers and WHO team members

Team leader

Peter Ben Embarek -- Scientist, Monitoring Nutritional Status &Food Safety Events, Nutrition and Food Safety, World Health Organization

Epidemiology

Thea K Fischer* -- Director of Clinical Research, Nordsjaellands University Hospital, Denmark

Dominic Dwyer -- Director, NSWHP-Public Health Pathology State-wide Service and Director, New South Wales Health Pathology-Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Australia

Farag Elmoubasher -- Acting Head, Communicable Disease Control Programmes, Public Health Department, Ministry of Public Health, Qatar (Participating via video links)

John Watson -- Adviser, Public Health England, The United Kingdom

Marion Koopmans -- Head, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Molecular epidemiology

Marion Koopmans* -- Head, Department of Viroscience, Erasmus University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

Fabian Leendertz -- Robert Koch-Institute, Germany (Participating via video links)

David Hayman -- Co-Director, Molecular Epidemiology and Public Health Laboratory, Massey University, New Zealand (OIE Collaborating Centre) (Participating via video links)

Animal and environment

Peter Daszak* -- President and Chief Scientist, EcoHealth Alliance, United States of America

Vladimir Dedkov -- Deputy Director-General for Research, Head of Epidemiology Department, Institute Pasteur, Russian Federation

Ken Maeda -- Director, Department of Veterinary Science, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Japan

Hung Nguyen-Viet -- Co-Leader, Animal and Human Health Programme, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), Kenya

Keith Hamilton -- Scientific and Technical Department, World Organisation for Animal Health (Office International des Epizooties, OIE)