Current membership

The STAG-HHS is composed of up to 30 members appointed by WHO Director-General following an open call for experts. They serve in their personal capacities and represent a broad range of disciplines relevant to HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexually transmitted infections. The STAG-HHS membership selection process is designed to attain an adequate distribution of technical expertise, geographical representation, and gender balance. For more information on the STAG-HHS membership, read the STAG-HHS Terms of Reference.

Professor Rakesh Aggarwal

Chair for Disease Elimination, Indian Council of Medical Research

Mr Michael Akanji

Senior Advisor, Prevention, Key populations and policy, Heartland Alliance International

Dr Ana Avellón

Director, Viral Hepatitis Unit, National Center for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III

Dr Nadia Badran

President of Social Workers’ Syndicate and Executive Director of SIDC

Dr Draurio Barreira

Director of the Department of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Viral Hepatitis, and STIs at the Ministry of Health of Brazil

Professor Alexandra Calmy

Head of HIV Unit, Geneva University Hospitals, Switzerland

Professor Xiang-Sheng Chen

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) and Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) Institute of Dermatology

Professor Benjamin Cowie

WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, Doherty Institute

Dr Danjuma Adda

Executive Director/CEO Centre For Initiative and Development (CFID) Taraba

Mr Serge Paul Eholie

Professor of Infectious and Tropical Disease, Head of Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit

Professor Angelica Espinosa Miranda

Medical School at Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES), Ministério da Saúde, Brazil

Professor Mohamed Hassany

Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and Hepatogastroenterology; Minister's Assistant for Projects and Public Health Initiatives; Executive Director

Mr Giten Khwairakpam

Community and Policy Program Manager for amfAR's TREAT Asia Program

Professor David Lewis

Director of Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Conjoint Professor at the University of Sydney and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University

Ms Mila Maistat

Senior Manager for Policy, Strategy and Market Access

Dr Francis Jim Ndowa

Director and Physician at the Skin & Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic

Professor Nataliya Nizova

Consultant, Public Health Center of The Ministry of Health of Ukraine

Ms Sbongile Nkosi

Co-Executive Director, Global Network of People Living with HIV (GNP+)

Dr Nittaya Phanuphak

Executive Director, Institute of HIV Research and Innovation, Bangkok, Thailand

Dr Huma Qureshi

Consultant gastroenterologist, National Hepatitis Focal Point for the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination, Pakistan

Dr Leelani Rajapaksa

Former Director of the National STD AIDS Control Programme of Sri Lanka

Professor Francois Venter

Executive Director of Wits Ezintsha at the University of the Witwatersrand

Dr John W. Ward

Director, Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination