Members of the Regional Technical Advisory Group
Dr Ali Jaffer Mohamed
Adviser Health Affairs
Supervisor Directorate General Health Affairs
Ministry of Health
Muscat
Oman
Dr David Salisbury
Director of Immunization
Department of Health
London
United Kingdom
Dr Olen Kew
Chief, Molecular Virology Section
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta
United States of America
Dr T. Jacob John
Chair, India Expert Advisory Group for Polio Eradication
College Hospital
Vellore
India
Dr Zulfiqar Bhutta
Professor of Paediatrics
The Aga Khan University
Karachi
Pakistan
Dr Mohamed Helmy Wahdan
Polio Senior Consultant
WHO
Egypt
Dr Robert Linkins
Chief
Vaccine Preventable Disease Eradication and Elimination Branch
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta
United States of America
Dr Jean Marc Olive
Chairman of Horn of Africa TAG
38 rue Boileau
Paris
France
Polio eradication strategies
Strategies adopted in the Eastern Mediterranean Region for polio eradication are the same as the global strategies, they include:
High levels of routine immunization