Dr. Aisha Khatib is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Family & Community Medicine at the University of Toronto. She trained in family and emergency medicine from the University of Toronto and McGill University, and completed an Infectious Diseases fellowship in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the University of Toronto. She holds certification in Travel Medicine from the University of Otago in New Zealand, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Gorgas Course in Peru. She worked as a Travel Doctor in New Zealand for five years before returning to Canada. She is currently the Clinical Director of Travel Medicine at Medcan and staff physician at Immigrant Women's Heath Centre in Toronto, Canada.  She is Past-President of the Alberta Association of Travel Health Professionals, Co-Chair of the ASTMH Update Course in Clinical Tropical Medicine and Travelers' Health, and Chair of the ISTM Responsible Travel Interest Group.  She is also a member of CATMAT, the Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, an external advisory body to the Public Health Agency of Canada.  Her recent research focused on the safety of air travel during the pandemic, as well as climate change and travel. 

Médica: Diploma de Honor - Universidad de Salvador |1980-1986 Residencia de Clínica Médica Hospital Aeronáutico Central | 1987-1990 Fellowship en Enfermedades Infecciosas Hospital Británico | 1990-1992 Diplomatura Universitaria de Gestión en Salud. Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales | 2018 Miembro de Sociedad Argentina de Infectología (2001-Presente) –Comisiones de Vacunas y de Gestión. Miembro fundador de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Medicina del Viajero-Comisión de vacunas.

Médico-Cirujano, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) 1984

Especialista en Puericultura y Pediatría, UCV 1989

Certificado en Salud Pública. Especialidad Epidemiología, UCV.1990

Diploma de Maestría en Salud Pública, Boston University. 1993

Certificado de Curso de especialización en Bioética, Cátedra UNESCO de Bioética y Biojurídica, Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid, España. 2002

Doctorando en Salud Pública, UCV

Profesor Titular, Escuela Luis Razetti, Facultad de Medicina UCV. 1997- presente

Jefe del Departamento de Medicina Preventiva y Social, Escuela Luis Razetti, Facultad de Medicina, UCV. 2014-presente

Médico vacunólogo. Vacuven, Centro de Vacunación, Caracas. 1996- presente

Miembro Titular, Sociedad Venezolana de Puericultura y Pediatría (SVPP); Miembro de las Sociedad Venezolana Salud Pública, Sociedad Venezolana Infectología, Sociedad Latinoamericana de Medicina del Viajero (Junta Directiva), Sociedad Latinoamericana de Infectología Pediátrica.

Prof. Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales, MD, MSc, DTM&H, DipEd, FRSTM&H(Lon), FFTM RCPS(Glasg), FACE, FISAC, HonDSc Fundacion Universitaria Autonoma de las Americas (Colombia) / Universidad Cientifica del Sur (Peru) / Lebanese American University (Lebanon) Senior Researcher and Faculty, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Américas, Pereira, Colombia. Researcher and Faculty, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru. Non-Resident Faculty Researcher, Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Rodriguez-Morales is an expert in tropical and emerging diseases, particularly in zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, including COVID-19 and Mpox, and their occurrence among travelers and migrants, as well as its approach under the One Health lens. President, Latin American Society for Travel Medicine (SLAMVI) (2023-2025). Past-President, Colombian Association of Infectious Diseases (ACIN) (2021-2023). Member, Committee on Tropical Medicine, Zoonoses, and Travel Medicine, ACIN. Member of the Council, International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID) (2020-2026). Editor-in-Chief, Travel Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Full Member of European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID). Member of the ESCMID Study Group for Infections in Travelers and Migrants (ESGITM). Member of the American Society for Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTM&H). Member of the International Society for Travel Medicine (ISTM). Member of the Steering Council of the Membership Committee of the ISTM. He was member of the Technical Working Group of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Global Research Agenda on Health and Migration and the 3rd Global Consultation on the Health of Migrants and Refugees (co-organized by WHO, UNHCR and IOM) (2023). H index 63 (Scopus)

Dr. Kalil is a physician, professor of Medicine, and researcher at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska. He is currently the Director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Program at the University of Nebraska. Dr. Kalil has received numerous honors and awards, including the 2021 Scientist Laureate Award. He is a member of a number of professional organizations, has been a peer-reviewer and editor for major medical journals, and has published over three hundred PubMed indexed scientific articles.

​​Andreas Alois Reis (Prof, MD, MSc) is the Co-Unit Head of the Health Ethics & Governance Unit at WHO in Geneva, Switzerland. After medical studies and practice in internal medicine in Germany, France and Chile he pursued studies in health economics and obtained a post-graduate degree in biomedical ethics. His work focuses on ethical aspects of infectious diseases, public health surveillance, health research, and AI. He has lectured and organized trainings for WHO in more than 50 countries and serves on the editorial boards of Public Health Ethics and Monash Bioethics Review. He has published widely and is the co-editor of four books on health ethics.

Dr McCarthy is the President-elect of the International Society of Travel Medicine. She is past Chair of Canada’s Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel, as well as the Clinical Group of the American Society of Tropical Medicine. She is a co-director of the Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine Course that takes part every 2 years in Thailand and Cambodia. Anne spent her early career in the Canadian Military, serving 20 years. During this time she deployed to Rwanda, Haiti and Cambodia which provided real life clinical experience with many tropical diseases and drove home the need to prevent these illnesses in military members and travelers. She is Professor of Medicine at University of Ottawa and Infectious Disease Physician at the Ottawa Hospital, where she is an Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Clinician. She is also a Site Director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and CanTravNet. Her research includes medical education, and clinical studies related to infectious disease, travel medicine, malaria, migrant health, and global health.

Maestro en Ciencias en Políticas de Salud Global por la London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Maestro en Ciencias de la Salud en Epidemiología por la UNAM

Certificado en Medicina del Viajero por la International Society of Travel Medicine

Médico Cirujano por la UNAM

MÉDICO INFECTOLOGISTA. GRADUADO DA ESCOLA DE MEDICINA DA UNIVERSIDADE DE BUENOS AIRES (986). ESPECIALIZACAO EM INFECTOLOGIA. CERTIFICADO PELA SOCIEDADE ARGENTINA DE INFECTOLOGIA E A ACADEMIA NACIONAL DE MEDICINA DE BUENOS AIRES. DIRETOR DA UNIDADE DE MEDICINA DO VIAJANTE DO CENTRO DE ESTUDOS INFECTOLOGICOS BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA (1993-2005). COORDENADOR DO PROGRAMA DE PATOLOGIA REGIONAL ENDEMICA E DOENCAS INFECCIOSAS EMERGENTES E REEMERGENTES (FUNCEI) BUENOS AIRES ARGENTINA (1996-2005). MEMBRO DA SOCIEDADE ARGENTINA DE INFECTOLOGIA (1996 AO PRESENTE) EX PRESIDENTE DA COMISSAO DE VACINAS  (2003-2005). MEMBRO E SOCIO FUNDADOR DA ASSOCIACAO LATINOAMERICADA DE MEDICINA DO VIAJANTE (SLAMVI) 2004 AO PRESENTE. AUTOR E COAUTOR DE NUMEROSAS PUBLICACOES SOBRE EPIDEMIOLOGIA DE DOENCAS IMUNOPREVENIVEIS, ESTUDOS CLINICOS COM VACINAS E ANÁLISES DE COSTOEFECTIVIDADE PARA VACINAS. DIRETOR DE PESQUISA CLÍNICA, DESENVOLVIMENTO E ASSUNTOS MEDICOS EM VACINAS GSK CHILE (2006-2007). DIRETOR DE ASSUNTOS MÉDICOS PARA VACINAS PARA LATINOAMERICA E REGIAO DO CARIBE  (2007 -2009). DIRETOR DE PESQUIZA CLÍNCA, DESENVOLVIMENTO E ASSUNTOS MÉDICOS EM VACINAS PARA O CONO SUL (2009-2017). DIRETOR DE ASSINTOS CIENTÍFICOS E SAUDE PUBLICA PARA VACINAS PARA LATINOAMERICA E REGIAO DO CARIBE (2017-2019). DIRETOR DE PESQUISA CLÍNICA, DESENVOLVIMENTO E ASSUNTOS MEDICOS EM VACCINES GSK BRASIL DESDE 2019.

Médico, Infectóloga Pediatra Profesor titular de la Escuela de Medicina, Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Diploma en Medicina Tropical y Medicina del Viajero. Universidad Cayetano Heredia, Perú y Universito of Alabama, Birmingham Magister en Enfermedades Tropicales Pediátricas en la Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Reino Unido Jefa del Departamento de Enfermedades Infecciosas e Inmunología Pediátricas. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Jefa de Programa de Enfermedades Infecciosas del Niño. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Dr. Cortes is a specialist in infectious diseases and internal medicine. Since 2005, have been dedicated to HIV/AIDS in both patient care and research. She has a position as Associate Professor at the University of Chile with academic activities involving undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral students.

Dr. Cortes has worked at Fundación Arriarán, Chile's first and largest HIV treatment center, for more than 16 years, where she has clinical duties in the care of PLWH.

She has served on the Chilean Infectious Diseases Society's HIV advisory group as a member and chair (SOCHINF). She is the former vice president of SOCHINF.

She works as an acting consultant for the Chilean Ministry of Health, where she has contributed to the establishment and revision of national clinical guidelines for HIV/AIDS care, as well as participation in several committees focused on HIV prevention, testing, and treatment initiatives. She is currently a member of the Ministry of Health's COVID-19 national guidelines committee and the advisory council for pandemic response.

Since 2020 is an elected member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society representing Latin America.

Dr. Cortes participates as principal investigator and co-researcher in studies for the main Latin-American epidemiologic HIV Cohort: The Caribbean, Central and South America network for HIV epidemiology (CCASAnet). Her research interest in HIV includes women's issues, migration, DDI and most recently, studies on the microbiome and chronic inflammatory response.

In 2017, with a group of academics from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, she created the Center for HIV/AIDS Integral Research (CHAIR), the first interdisciplinary research and extension centre for HIV-related issues in Chile. She is founder and current director of this centre.

Dr. Cortes authored and co-authored 60 peer-reviewed scientific publications and book chapters on topics related to migration health and HIV. She is deputy editor of JIAS the Journal of the International AIDS Society, and PLoS Global Public Health and editor in charge of the HIV section of the Chilean journal of infectious diseases (REVINF).

Médico infectólogo

Miembro co-fundador de SLAMVI.

Ministerio de Salud de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires.

Davidson Hamer, MD is a Professor of Global Health and Medicine at the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, the co-lead of the climate change and emerging infectious diseases research core at the BU Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases, and an attending physician in infectious diseases and Director of the Travel Clinic at Boston Medical Center. From 2014 to 2021, Dr. Hamer served as the principal investigator and, since September 2021, as the Surveillance Lead, of GeoSentinel, a global surveillance network of 70 sites in 30 countries that uses returning travelers, immigrants, and refugees as sentinels of disease emergence and transmission patterns throughout the world.

• Lin H. Chen, MD, FACP, FASTMH, FISTM, is Past President of International Society of Travel Medicine (2019-2021). She is Director of the Travel Medicine Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Chen developed/directed the ISTM Travel Medicine Review and Update Course, served on the Professional Education Committee and Research Committee. She also served on the Education Committee of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, several Work Groups of CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and on past scientific program committees of ISTM and ICEID. She is currently the ISTM Industry Liaison as well as Chair of the Development and Planning Committee. Her editorial roles include Journal of Travel Medicine, Current Infectious Disease Reports, and Infectious Diseases: A Geographic Guide, and CDC Yellow Book 2026. She is a site director for the GeoSentinel Surveillance Network and Global Travel Epidemiology Network. Her clinical research focuses on travelers’ health, including vector-borne diseases, vaccines, and emerging infections.

Dr. Caskey is a Professor of Clinical Investigation at The Rockefeller University. Her work focuses on the development and clinical evaluation of novel immunotherapeutic strategies against infectious diseases, with a special emphasis on HIV.  Caskey has led a series of early-phase clinical studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of broadly neutralizing anti-HIV antibodies. These studies have revitalized this area of HIV research, which had been abandoned after first-generation antibodies failed to show significant effects in humans. Broadly neutralizing antibodies are now considered one of the most promising strategies to achieve HIV remission, as well as potential alternatives to antiretrovirals for both therapy and prevention.

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Dr. Caskey graduated from medical school at the Federal University of Sergipe in Brazil. She then completed an internal medicine residency at Saint Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital, in New York, followed by fellowship training in infectious diseases at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center.  Dr. Caskey is also an attending physician in infectious diseases at Weill Cornell Medicine Center and an elected member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Miguel Cabada is an Associate Professor and Director Ad Interim of the Division of Infectious Diseases at University of Texas Medical Branch and Director of the Cusco Branch of the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia. Dr. Cabada is a practicing physician with expertise in general infectious diseases and tropical medicine and a scientist with expertise in epidemiological and translational studies. He heads a research program in the Cusco region of Peru to study neglected tropical parasites, travel related illnesses, and emerging causes of undifferentiated fever. His main focus is on the epidemiology, diagnosis, treatment, and control of helminths affecting the local population. Dr. Cabada is the principal investigator for several federally funded studies on Fasciola hepatica and travel related illnesses. He serves in different roles at the Latin American Society of Travel Medicine, the International Society of Travel Medicine, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Pablo Tebas is the director and the PI of the AIDS clinical trial unit of the University of Pennsylvania. He is one of the founding members of the HIV Reservoirs and Viral Eradication (Cure) Transformative Science Group (TSG) of the AIDS clinical trial group. In addition to his ACTG work, he is involved (as PI of the clinical project) in several early phase trials of new compounds developed in conjunction with the NIH in several IPCP grants, including a Phase I study evaluating the antiviral activity of aprepitant (an NK-1R antagonist that down-regulates the expression of CCR5), a phase I study evaluating the immunogenicity of a therapeutic DNA vaccine administered by intramuscular electroporation in collaboration with David Weiner and several gene therapy studies evaluating the therapeutic use of lentiviral vectors in the management of
HIV infection (including the use of VIRxSYS 496 –antisense approach-, the first in humans Sangamo’s zinc finger nuclease for CCR5 edition, in collaboration with Dr. Carl June. Dr. Tebas' clinical interest focus on the treatment of HIV infection and associated infections like hepatitis C. He also has a particular interest in the clinical manifestations and treatment of atypical mycobacterial infections. Dr. Tebas attends the general infectious disease service of the hospital of University of Pennsylvania every year.

Graduação em Bacharel em Medicina pela Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz – Bolívia. Infectologista pelo Departamento de Moléstias Infecciosas e Parasitarias da Faculdade de Medicina de São Paulo (FMSP) -Título de Doutor em ciência, pelo Programa de doenças Infecciosas e Parasitarias da FMUSP. Título de especialista em pediatria pela Sociedade Brasileira de Pediatria (SBP). Membro da Sociedade Brasileira de Infectologia (SBI). Membro de la Sociedad Latinoamericana del Viajero (SLAMV).

Doctor in Medicine & Surgery

Master in Public Health

Certificate in Travel Medicine

Member of:

International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM)

American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (ASTMH)

Sociedad Latinoamericana de Medicina del Viajero (SLAMVI)

Sociedad Española de Medicina del Viajero (SEMEVI)

Asociación Española de Vacunología (AEV)

Professora assistente e infectologista pediátrica na Universidade de Brown em Providence, EUA. Sua pesquisa concentra-se em crianças e adolescentes com tuberculose, na maior parte em Lima, Peru em colaboração com a Socios En Salud. Também tem colaborações com colegas ucranianos e sul-africanos. Atualmente é recipiente do prêmio Fulbright para conduzir pesquisas sobre TB na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Dra. Chiang colaborou na revisão de evidências para informar as recomendações e o manual operacional da Organização Mundial da Saúde de 2022 sobre o manejo da tuberculose em crianças e adolescentes.

Medica infectologa Jefa de la sección Zoopatología Médica del Hospital Francisco Javier Muñiz, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Docente de la Cátedra de Enfermedades Infecciosas de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) Miembro fundador y ex presidente de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Medicina del Viajero(SLAMVI) Secretaria de la Comisión Directiva de SADI. Miembro de la Sociedad Internacional de Medicina del Viajero (ISTM) Certificada en Travel Health

Thomas Weitzel is a German physician specialized in Tropical and Travel Medicine. He obtained his medical training in Clinical Microbiology, Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Tropical Medicine in Germany. From 2000 to 2009, he was Head of the Diagnostic Laboratory and lecturer at the Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité Berlin. Since 2009 he works in Santiago, Chile, where he is Head of the Travel Medicine Program at Clínica Alemana. He is a faculty member of the medical school, Universidad del Desarrollo, receiving his full professorship in 2015. His main research interests are vector-borne and travel-related infections. Up to date, he has published >20 book chapters and >120 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is member of the Advisory Board of Travel Medicine (StAR) of the German Society of Tropical Medicine (DTG), and serves as a guest lecturer for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology at Universidad de Chile and Charité University Medicine Berlin.