Arbovirus researchers unite: expanding genomic surveillance for an urgent global need
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In August 2023, researchers from six continents, working on the molecular surveillance of arboviruses, came together and agreed to collaborate on expanding the genomic surveillance of arthropod viruses that pose potential epidemic and pandemic risk. In their call for action, published in The Lancet – Global Health they pledge to share their findings through EpiArbo, a new data analysis platform they helped design, with an initial focus on Dengue, Chikungunya and Zika viruses to support the integrated assessment of genetic, pharmacological and vector interventions. > read more
| Name | Institution | Country |
| Ngu Njei Abanda | Centre Pasteur du Cameroun | Cameroon |
| Adriano Abbud | Instituto Adolfo Lutz | Brazil |
| Saro Abdella | HIV and TB Research Directorate Director, Ethiopian Public Health Institute | Ethiopia |
| Adugna Abera | Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Core Cacility Ethiopian Public Health Institute | Ethiopia |
| Steve Ahuka-Mundeke | Departement de Virologie, Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale, Université de Kinshasa | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Kalichamy Alagarasu | Indian Council of Medical Research, National Institute of Virology | India |
| Diego Alejandro Alvarez-Diaz | Instituto Nacional de Salud, Genomica de Microorganismos Emergentes, Dirección de Investigación en Salud Pública | Colombia |
| Afreenish Amir | National Institutes of Health Pakistan | Pakistan |
| Kevin K. Ariën | Virology Unit, Department of Biomedical Sciences Institute of Tropical Medicine | Belgium |
| Soany Avilez | Laboratorio Nacional de Vigilancia de la Salud Secretaria de Salud de Honduras | Honduras |
| Constancia Flávia Junqueira Ayres | Departamento de Entomologia, Instituto Aggeu Magalhaes FIOCRUZ-Pernambuco | Brazil |
| Luisa Barzon | University of Padova | Italy |
| Joseph Humphrey Kofi Bonney | Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana | Ghana |
| Sanaba Boumbaly | Centre de Recherche en Virologie Commune de Matoto, Conakry | Guine |
| Golubinka Boshevska | Institute of Public Health Faculty of Medical Sciences, University Goce Delchev Shtip | North Macedonia |
| Philippe Buchy | Institut Pasteur du Laos | Laos |
| Omar Cáceres-Rey | Instituto Nacional de Salud Peru, Unidad de Virología | Peru |
| Van-Mai Cao-Lormeau | Laboratory of Research on Emerging Viral Diseases Chez lnstitut Louis Malardé | Tahiti |
| Gvantsa Chanturia | National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC) Tbilisi | Georgia |
| Andrés Carrazco-Montalvo | Centro de Referencia Nacional de Genómica, Secuenciación y Bioinformática. Instituto Nacional de Investigación en Salud Pública Dr. Leopoldo Izquieta Pérez (INSPI - CRN-GENSBIO) | Ecuador |
| Andres E Castillo | Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile, Subdepartamento de Genética Molecular y Genómica | Chile |
| Yu Kie Chem | National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health Malaysia | Malaysia |
| Paul A Cardenas | Instituto de Microbiologia, COCIBA Universidad San Francisco de Quito | Ecuador |
| Adriana Delfraro | School of Sciencies, Republic University Montevideo | Uruguay |
| Gregor Devine | QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Brisbane | Australia |
| Veasna Duong | Institut Pasteur du Cambodge | Cambodia |
| Myrielle Dupont-Rouzeyrol | Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie | New Caledonia |
| Artem V Fadeev | Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza, Saint Petersburg | Russia |
| Alvaro Fajardo | Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares Facultad de Ciencias, UdelaR Montevideo | Uruguay |
| Francesca Falconi-Agapito | Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia | Peru |
| Luis Adrián Diaz | Researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba | Argentina |
| Lara Ferrero Gómez | Center for Research, Institutional Relations and Advanced Training, University Jean-Piaget Praia | Cape Verde |
| Eduardo Samo Gudo | Instituto Nacional de Saúde Mocambique | Mozambique |
| Gladys Gutierrez-Bugallo | Instituto de Medicina Tropical 'Pedro Kourí' | Cuba |
| Hapuarachchige Chanditha Hapuarachchi | Microbiology and Molecular Epidemiology Division, Environmental Health Institute Singapore | Singapore |
| Jean-Michel Heraud | Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Virology Department | Senegal |
| Martin L Hibberd | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | United Kingdom |
| Osvaldo Frederico Inlamea | Instituto Nacional de Saúde Mocambique | Mozambique |
| Nik Jasmin | National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Health Malaysia | Malaysia |
| Ito Neirdleen Journel | Laboratoire National de Santé Publique | Haiti |
| Maria Ezekiely Kelly | National Public Health Laboratory Tanzania | Tanzania |
| Salim Khan | Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research | Bangladesh |
| Andrey B Komissarov | Smorodintsev Research Institute of Influenza Saint Petersburg | Russia |
| Pornsawan Leaungwutiwong | Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University | Thailand |
| Mariana Leguia | Genomics Laboratory, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | Peru |
| Yaniv Lustig | Public Health Directorate, Israel Ministry of Health, Chaim Sheba Medical Center | Israel |
| Aamer Ikram | National Institutes of Health Pakistan | Pakistan |
| Rafael Maciel-de-Freitas | Laboratório de Mosquitos Transmissores de Hematozoários, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz Rio de Janeiro | Brazil |
| Marat Makenov | Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor | Russia |
| Gathsaurie Neelika Malavige | University of Sri Jayawardanapura, Faculty of Medical Sciences, | Sri Lanka |
| Alexander A Martinez | Instituto Conmemorativo Gorgas de Estudio de la Salud Panama | Panama |
| Maria L. Mendoza | Laboratorio Nacional de Salud Guatemala | Guatemala |
| Luong T Mo | Southern Branch of Joint Vietnam-Russia Tropical Science and Technology Research Center | Vietnam |
| Brechla Moreno | Laboratorio Modular COVID-19, Departamento de Investigación en Virología y Biotecnología Panama | Panama |
| Lydia Mwasi | Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) | Kenya |
| Felipe Gomes Naveca | Laboratório de Ecologia de Doenças Transmissíveis na Amazônia, Instituto Leônidas e Maria Deane, Fiocruz Manaus | Brazil |
| Lee Ching NG | Microbiology and Molecular Epidemiology Division, Environmental Health Institute Singapore | Singapore |
| Richard Njouom | Centre Pasteur du Cameroun | Cameroon |
| Mauricio Lacerda Nogueira | Univeristy of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, Departament of Pathology | United States of the America |
| Francine Ntoumi | Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale | Republic of the Congo |
| Nehemie Nzoyikorera | Laboratoire Nationale de Référence, Institut National de Santé Publique Bujumbura | Burundi |
| Barbara A Parra | Subdepartamento de Genética Molecular y Genómica, Instituto de Salud Pública de Chile | Chile |
| Mauricio Vázquez Pichardo | Instituto de Diagnóstico y Referencia Epidemiológicos - InDRE, WHO Collaborating Center for Arbovirus | Mexico |
| Kristine Joy Ragual Privaldos | Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, National Reference Laboratory for Dengue and other Arboviruses | Philippines |
| Ricardo Javier Rivero | Universidad de Cordoba | Colombia |
| Alejandra María Rojas | Universidad Nacional de Asuncion, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Salud, Departamento de Producción, Paraguay | Paraguay |
| Richard Steiner Salvato | Centro de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Centro Estadual de Vigilância em Saúde, Secretaria Estadual da Saúde do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil | Brazil |
| R. Tedjo Sasmono | Eijkman Research Center for Molecular Biology, National Agency for Research and Innovation | Indonesia |
| Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit | Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, WHO Collaborating Center for Arbovirus and Hemorrhagic Fever Reference and Research | Germany |
| Gonçalo Seixas | Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Universidade Nova de Lisboa | Portugal |
| Etienne Simon-Loriere | Institut Pasteur, G5 Evolutionary Genomics of RNA Viruses | France |
| Yuriy Skiba | Almaty Branch of the National Center for Biotechnology in Central Reference Laboratory, Almaty, Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan |
| Ava Kristy Dy Sy | Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, National Reference Laboratory for Dengue and other Arboviruses | Philippines |
| Michael Talledo-Albujar | Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia | Peru |
| Claudio Tavares Sacchi | Instituto Adolfo Lutz | Brazil |
| Daniel Thakuma Tizhe | Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Department of Biochemistry | Nigeria |
| Vi Thuy Tran | Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam |
| Cécile Troupin | Institut Pasteur du Laos | Laos |
| John Timothy Kayiwa | Uganda Virus Research Institute | Uganda |
| Andrew van den Hurk | Queensland Health, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland | Australia |
| Jose A. Usme Ciro | CIST-Centro de Investigación en Salud para el Trópico, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia | Colombia |
| Adi Utarini | Universitas Gadjah Mada | Indonesia |
| Nikolaos Vasilakis | University of Texas Medical Branch, Institute for Human Infections and Immunity | United States of the America |
| Atsbeha Gebreegziabxier Weldemariam | Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Core Facility, Ethiopian Public Health Institute | Ethiopia |
| Yuan Chao (Tim) Xue | Genome British Columbia | Canada |
| Sophie Yacoub | Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU), Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam |
| Zainun Zaini | Department of Laboratory Services, Ministry of Health Brunei | Brunei |
| Gabriel Luz Wallau
| Instituto Aggeu Magalhaes, FIOCRUZ Pernambuco, Department of Arbovirology and Entomology | Brazil |
Arbovirus researchers unite
The Lancet - Global Health (2023) doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(23)00325-X
© 2023 Elsevier Ltd.
