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Dr Meirion Evans
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health, Cardiff University &
Hon. Regional Epidemiologist, Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre, National Public Health Service for Wales

Dr Meirion Evans is one of three medical epidemiologists at the Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre (CDSC) Wales. The unit is responsible for developing and running surveillance systems in Wales, and supporting UK surveillance. It also provides support for field investigation of outbreaks, training and education of professional colleagues, and providing advice on communicable disease policy and strategy matters to the Welsh Assembly Government. Dr Evans is also a senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health at Cardiff University where his research interests include disease outbreaks, immunisation and SARS.

Meirion has been a member of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, Working Group on SARS, HPA Expert Advisory Group on Respiratory Viruses and HPA Influenza and Respiratory Virus Programme Board.

During the SARS outbreak in 2003 he was a member of two WHO Expert Teams to visit China (Beijing & Guangdong), an independent consultant on SARS to the Hong Kong Government, and a member of the Hong Kong SARS Expert Committee that subsequently reviewed the handling of the outbreak and made recommendations.

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