About ISSPD

Cynthia Whitney, USA

ISPPD President

Research Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

Principal Investigator and Executive Director, CHAMPS

David Goldblatt, United Kingdom

ISPPD Secretary

Professor of Vaccinology and Immunology, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital

Debby Bogaert, United Kingdom

ISPPD Treasurer

Chair of Paediatrics Medicine, University of Edinburgh

Honorary consultant, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Kate O'Brien, USA

ISPPD Board Member

Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals Department, World Health Organization, Switzerland

Catherine Satzke, Australia

ISPPD Board Member

Associate Professor, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital

The University of Melbourne, Australia

Kim Mulholland, Australia

ISPPD Board Member

Group leader, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia

Professor in Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Professor in Epidemiology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Samir Kumar Saha, Bangladesh

ISPPD Board Member

Professor and Head, Department of Microbiology, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health, Dhaka Shishu Hospital

Upton Allen,

ISPPD Board Member

Anne von Gottberg, South Africa

ISPPD Board Member

Laboratory lead at the Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Associate Professor within the School of Pathology, Faculty of the Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Honorary Professor, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town.

Supervisor to a number of Masters and PhD students. 

Shabir Madhi, South Africa

ISPPD Board Member

Mignon du Plessis, South Africa

ISPPD Board Member

Medical Scientist

Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis

National Institute for Communicable Diseases

South Africa

Angela Brueggemann, United Kingdom

ISPPD Secretary

Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Big Data Institute | Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford

Steven Black, USA

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Emeritus Professor of Paediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Mathuram Santosham, USA

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Professor, International Health and Pediatrics

Senior Advisor – International Vaccine Access Center (IVAC)

Director Emeritus, Center for American Indian Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Amanda Leach, Australia

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Leader, Ear Health Research Program, Child Health Division, Menzies School of Health Research, Northern Territory, Australia

Arto Palmu, Finland

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Ingileif Jonsdotir, Iceland

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Hannah Nohynek, Finland

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Keith Klugman, South Africa/USA

ISPPD General Assembly Member

Shabir Madhi, South Africa

ISPPD General Assembly Member