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The SPI is an extension of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG), set up in 2005:
View the original membership of the SAG group.

The following is the membership of the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Advisory Committee:

  • (Chair) Prof Sir Gordon Duff
    Florey Professor of Molecular Medicine, University of Sheffield School of Medicine

  • Prof Andy Alaszewski
    Director and Professor of Health Studies Centre for Health Services Studies, University of Kent

  • Prof David A Alexander
    Director of the Aberdeen Centre for Trauma Research, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen

  • Dr Maureen Baker
    General Practitioner, Honorary Secretary, RCGP

  • Prof Sheila Bird
    Principal Statistician, Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit

  • Dr Ian Brown
    International Reference Laboratory for Avian Influenza

  • Dr Ben Cooper
    Mathematical Modeller, Health Protection Agency

  • Prof Janet Darbyshire
    Director Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit

  • Mr Niall Dickson
    Chief Executive King's Fund

  • Prof John Edmunds
    Head of the Modelling and Economics Unit, Health Protection Agency

  • Dr Meirion Evans
    Consultant epidemiologist, National Public Health Service for Wales

  • Prof Neil Ferguson
    Director, MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Imperial College

  • Prof David Goldblatt
    Head of the Immunobiology Unit, Institute of Child Health, University College London

  • Prof George Griffin
    Chair of Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens (ACDP)
    Head of the Dept of Cellular and Molecular Medicine and Infectious Diseases, St George's University of London

  • Dr Peter Grove
    Analyst, Department of Health

  • Dr Paul Gully
    Director of Policy Analysis and Communications, World Health Organisation

  • Prof Andrew Hall
    Chair of Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation
    Prof of Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  • Dr Stephen Inglis
    Director of the National Institute for Biological Standards Control (NIBSC)

  • Prof Alan Jackson
    Chair of Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN)
    Institute of Nutrition, Southampton General Hospital

  • Dr Steve Leach
    Scientific Programme Head (Microbial Risk Assessment), Health Protection Agency

  • Dr Simon Mardel
    Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Leicester Royal Infirmary

  • Prof Barry McCormick
    Chief Economist and Director of Analysis, Department of Health

  • Prof Susan Michie
    Chair in Health Psychology, Department of Psychology, UCL

  • Dr Jacqueline Morris
    University Department of Geriatric Medicine Royal Free London

  • Dr Kevin Moreton
    MRC Infections & Immunity Section - Research Management Group

  • Dr Simon Nadel
    Consultant in Paediatric Intensive Care, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

  • Prof Angus Nicoll
    Influenza co-ordination, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm

  • Prof Karl Nicholson
    Professor & Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, University of Leicester

  • Dr Babatunde Olowokure
    Consultant Epidemiologist - Health Protection Agency Regional Surveillance Unit, West Midlands

  • Prof Peter Openshaw
    Professor of Experimental Medicine, Imperial College London; Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infections Research

  • Prof Deenan Pillay
    Liaison for Advisory Committee on Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI)
    Professor of Virology, UCL; Head of Research Department, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency

  • Dr Bina Rawal
    Therapeutic Area Expert in Virology, Roche Products Ltd

  • Prof Robert Read
    Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Sheffield

  • Dr Jeremy Russell
    Director of R&D, Smiths Medical International

  • Dr Andrew Singer
    Senior Scientific Officer, Centre of Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford

  • Sir John Skehel
    Retired as Director of the NIMR in 2006 Academy of Medical Sciences

  • Prof Jonathan Van Tam
    Professor of Health Protection, University of Nottingham

  • Dr Alison Webster
    Director of the Infectious Diseases Medicines Development Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Prof Christopher Whitty
    Chair of National Expert Panel New & Emerging Infections (NepNei)
    Prof of International Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

  • Prof Lucy Yardley
    Professor of Health Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Southampton

  • Prof Maria Zambon
    Deputy Director of Virology Reference Division, Health Protection Agency
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