Structure
A dynamic, multi-disciplinary Board of prominent experts
The HPV Prevention and Control Board is composed of a group of experts as HPV Prevention and Control Board Advisers, who set the strategy and define the actions. The advisers are internationally recognised experts in the fields of HPV, HPV related cancer, public health, and vaccinology. They are able to offer high quality information and expert opinions to the target audiences of opinion leaders, policymakers, and health care professionals. They are professionally highly active in their fields of expertise, and will ensure that the HPV Prevention Board responds rapidly and effectively as new issues emerge. Apart from academia, and national health authorities, representatives from headquarters (WHO/HQ), the WHO regional office for Europe (WHO/EURO), IARC, GAVI, the International Papillomavirus Society (IPS), European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) are members of the board.
In addition to the permanent group of experts, external experts are invited on an ad hoc basis depending on the topics discussed at the meeting.
View the members of the Board
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Advisers:
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Dr. Marc Arbyn
Coordinator
Unit Cancer Epidemiology |
| Prof. Dr. Narendra Kumar Arora Chief Scientist & Mentor The INCLEN Trust International (INCLEN) India nkarora@inclentrust.org |
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Prof. dr. Paolo Bonanni
Professor in Public Health Dipartimento di Scienze della Salute (DSS) University of Florence Italy paolo.bonanni@unifi.it |
| Dr. Kate Cuschieri FRCPath Director, Scottish HPV Reference Laboratory, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Scottish Human Papillomavirus Reference Laboratory | Edinburgh and Lothians Laboratory Medicine & Lead, HPV Research Group, Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh Centre for Reproductive Health | Centre for Reproductive Health kate.cuschieri@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk |
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Dr. Silvia de Sanjosé
Consultant – National Cancer Institute (NCI) Senior Advisor to Women’s Cancer – PATH NCI, PATH International Papilloma Virus Society Spain & USA desanjosé.silvia@gmail.com |
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Prof. dr. Eduardo Franco
Professor Department of Oncology and Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics Director Division of Cancer Epidemiology Chairman Department of Oncology Faculty of Medicine McGill University Canada eduardo.franco@mcgill.ca |
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Prof. dr. Suzanne Garland
Prof. Reproductive & Neonatal Infectious Diseases Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Director of the Centre for Women’s Infectious Diseases (WCID) Research Honorary Research Fellow, Infection & Immunity University of Melbourne The Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne Australia |
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Dr. Anna R. Giuliano |
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Prof. dr. Murat Gultekin
MD, Prof., Gyneacological Oncologist, Chair Faculty of Medicine Hacettepe University ESGO Prevention and Advocacy Commitee Chair and ESGO ENGAGe Chair Turkey mrtgultekin@yahoo.com
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| Dr. Sharon J.B. Hanley Department of Academic Primary Care Institute of Applied Health Sciences University of Aberdeen sharon.hanley@abdn.ac.uk |
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Prof. dr. Susanne Krüger Kjaer
Professor, MD, DMSc Danish Cancer Institute Copenhagen, Denmark susanne@cancer.dk |
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Dr. Heidi Larson
Professor of Anthropology, Risk and Decision Science Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) UK Heidi.Larson@lshtm.ac.uk |
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Dr. Mauricio Maza
Regional Advisor for Cancer Prevention and Control
Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
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Dr. Nelly Rwamba Mugo
Senior Principal Clinical Research Scientist
Kenya Medical Research Institute
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Dr. Raul Murillo
Director Javeriana Oncology Center (San Ignacio University Hospital – Bogotá, Colombia)
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine – Pontifical Javeriana University (Bogotá-Colombia)
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Prof. dr. Mario Poljak
Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Microbiology and Slovenian HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis Reference Center Institute of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty of Medicine University of Ljubljana Slovenia mario.poljak@mf.uni-lj.si |
| Prof. Margaret Stanley OBE., FMedSci, Hon FRCOG, Hon FFPH Department of Pathology University of Cambridge UK mas1001@cam.ac.uk |
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Dr. Marc Steben
Co-president
HPV global action
Montréal, Canada
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Prof. dr. Pierre Van Damme
Director Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute Faculty of Medicine University of Antwerp, Belgium pierre.vandamme@uantwerpen.be |
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Prof. dr. ir. Alex Vorsters
Associated Professor Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute Faculty of Medicine University of Antwerp Belgium alex.vorsters@uantwerpen.be |
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Honorary Advisers:
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Prof. dr. Mira Kojouharova
Former Deputy Director, Head National Centre of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) Bulgaria mira.kojouharova@gmail.com |
| Dr. Nubia Muñoz Emeritus Professor Instituto Nacional de Cancerología Bogota, Colombia |
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Ad hoc Advisers:
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David Hawkes
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Observers:
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Dr. Iacopo Baussano |
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Dr. Liudmila Mosina
WHO Euro World Health Organization |
A flexible, experienced, and well-connected Executive Secretariat
The secretariat of the HPV Prevention Board is located at the University of Antwerp, at the Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, within the structure of the Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination (CEV), which has 32 years of experience of successfully running the VHPB secretariat. The CEV is a WHO Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases.
View the secretariat team
The executive secretariat of the HPV prevention and control Board has its seat at VAXINFECTIO, Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Team members are:
Prof. Dr. Ir. Alex Vorsters, alex.vorsters@uantwerpen.be
Prof. Dr. Pierre Van Damme, pierre.vandamme@uantwerpen.be
Mrs. Greet Hendrickx, greet.hendrickx@uantwerpen.be
Miss. Dur-e-Nayab Waheed, nayab.waheed@uantwerpen.be
Dr. Felix Ricardo Burdier Custodio, ricardo.burdier@uantwerpen.be
Dr. Sara Valckx, sara.valckx@uantwerpen.be
Mrs. Xenia Mikulla, xenia.mikulla@uantwerpen.be
Mrs. Brenda Janssens, brenda.janssens@uantwerpen.be