Vectorborne Sub-Committee

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Terms of Reference & Membership

1. To assess the current and potential risk of vectorborne disease in Ireland and to make recommendations to reduce people's risk of disease.
2. To determine the burden of viral CNS infection and to make recommendations regarding its prevention and control.
3. To determine the burden of imported malaria and to make recommendations in relation to provision of advice and guidance.
4. To identify and determine the burden of other significant vectorborne diseases in Ireland and to make recommendations in relation to the provision of advice and guidance.
5. To co-ordinate with the Meningitis Advisory Committee to ensure consistency of guidance and the provision of epidemiological information especially in relation to viral CNS infection viral disease (in order to undertake this work, liaison will be required with the Meningitis Advisory Committee, to consider the terms of references of the viral CNS infection, and to establish best methods of communication in relation to common areas of interest).

Membership:

Paul McKeown
Health Protection Surveillance Centre (Chair)

Anthony Breslin

Specialist in Public Health Medicine, HSE North West on behalf of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine,  Royal College of Physicians Ireland (RCPI)

Jeff Connell
National Virus Reference Laboratory

Dr Brendan Crowley
Consultant Microbiologist, St James's Hospital

Jeremy Gray
School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD

Sarah Jackson
Health Protection Surveillance Centre

Tom Kelly
Lecturer in Zoology, UCC

Sam McConkey
Head of Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine, RCSI

Maurice Mulcahy

HSE Environmental Health, on behalf of Environmental Health Officers Association

Joan O'Riordan
Irish Blood Transfusion Service

Eoin Ryan
Department of Agriculture and Food

Rachel Wisdom
Department of Agriculture and Food

Last updated: 10/03/2016

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