About the PIP Framework Advisory Group
The Advisory Group (AG) is tasked, among other things, with monitoring implementation of the PIP Framework, and providing evidence-based reporting, assessment and recommendations regarding its functioning to the Director-General. The AG is comprised of 18 members drawn from three Member States in each WHO Region. It consists of internationally recognized policy makers, public health experts and technical experts in the field of influenza. Members serve three-year terms.
Advisory Group Composition as of October 2025
Chair
Executive Director Communicable Diseases Sector, Abu Dhabi Public Health Center (ADPHC), United Arab Emirates
Vice Chair
Former Deputy Chief Public Health Officer, Public Health Agency, Canada
Members
Professor of Public Health, Epidemiology and HIV/AIDS at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
Clinical Microbiologist Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis (CRDM), National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), Johannesburg, South Africa
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Former Director General of Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Iran
Director, Division of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Korean Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), Republic of Korea
Professor, Department of Microbiology of Health Sciences University, Ankara City Hospital, Türkiye
Department of Health Security, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
Prof Mai Le Thi Quynh
Senior Expert, National Influenza Center, Vietnam National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Hanoi, Vietnam
Dr Dragana Dimitrijevic
Institute of Public Health of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Scientific Researcher, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Senegal
Prof Soe Lwin Nyein
Department of Public Health, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar
Director of the Centre for Research and Development of Biomedical and Basic Health Technology, National Institute of Health Research and Development (NIHRD), Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Republic of Indonesia
Associate Professor of Practice, National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr Enrique Amar Tayag
Former Head of the Department of Health, Public Health Services Cluster, Philippines
Health Specialist, Royal Centre for Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Bhutan
Dean, Makerere University School of Public Health, Uganda
Ministerio de Salud, Costa Rica
Advisory Group reports
Meetings of the Advisory Group are convened typically twice a year. The meeting reports summarize discussions and list recommendations to the Director-General. The PIP Advisory Group also produces an Annual Report to the Director-General on the functioning of the PIP Framework.
Advisory Group reports prior to 2017 can be found here.