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.
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.
Membership of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee
Professor Margaret Gyapong
(Chair STAC) Medical Anthropologist, Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research, Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
Wouter Mark Boesman
Head of International Cooperation, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium
Dr Bassirou Bonfoh
Senior researcher, Director Afrique One, Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire (CSRS), Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Dr Alex Eapen
Scientist F (Senior Grade 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
Dr Engelbert Bain Luchuo
Head of International Programs, African Population and Health Research Centre, APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya
Dr Diogo Martins
Lead Adviser to the CEO Office, Wellcome Trust, London, United Kingdom
Professor Aylene Emilia Moraes Bousquat
Area Coordinator, University of São Paulo, School of Public Health, São Paulo, Brazil
Dr Kathrin Schuldt
Head, LabGroup Infectious Disease Surveillance and Control, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Dr David Soeiro Barbosa
Faculty Member and Researcher, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Dr Yadlapalli Sriparvathi Kusuma
Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Professor Abdhalah Kasiira Ziraba
Chief of Staff and Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
STAC annual sessions
The forty-eighth meeting of STAC will take place in March 2027.
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