Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee

Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC)

STAC provides external scientific and technical input in the planning, prioritization and review of TDR’s activities.

About

STAC provides external scientific and technical input in the planning, prioritization and review of TDR’s activities. More specifically, STAC:

reviews, from a scientific and technical standpoint, the content, scope and dimensions of the Special Programme;
recommends priorities, including the establishment and disestablishment of scientific working groups, and all scientific and technical activities;
provides the JCB and the TDR Secretariat with a continuous independent evaluation of the scientific and technical aspects of TDR's activities.

The STAC is comprised of up to 15 multidisciplinary members, selected on the basis of individual scientific or technical competence. Members serve for a period of two years and may be reappointed.

Terms of reference for TDR's STAC and SWG members

Membership of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee

Professor Margaret Gyapong

(Chair STAC) Director, Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

Professor Karen Barnes

Professor, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Bassirou Bonfoh

Senior researcher, Director Afrique One, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Alex Eapen

Deputy Director, ICMR-National Institute of Malaria Research, Chennai, India

Dr Delfina Hlashwayo

Faculty Member and Researcher, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique

Professor Debra Jackson

Takeda Chair in Global Child Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Dr Luchuo Engelbert Bain

Head of International Programs, African Population and Health Research Centre, APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya

Dr Thabi Maitin

Division Manager, Research Capacity Development Division, South African Medical Research Council

Diogo Martins

Lead Adviser to the CEO Office, Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom

Dr Emelda Aluoch Okiro

Head, Population Health Unit, KEMRI/Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Professor Leanne Robinson

Program Director, Health Security, Senior Principal Research Fellow, Group Leader, Vector-Borne Diseases and Tropical Public Health, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Kathrin Schuldt

Head LabGroup Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

David Soeiro Barbosa

Adjunct Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Institute of Biological Sciences, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Yadlapalli Sriparvathi Kusuma

Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Professor Andrea Sylvia Winkler

Co (joint)-Director, Center for Global Health, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany