Executive Body

ICOPHAI 2013 Executive Body

Wondwossen Gebreyes, President
Professor and Director of Global Health Programs
The Ohio State University, College of Veterinary Medicine, U.S.A.

Celso B. Oliveira, Secretary General
Associate Professor, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil

Marisa Cardoso, VP, Organization
Professor, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Rudovick Kazwala, VP, Scientific Program
Professor, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania

Organizing Committee

Sumalee Boonmar, Senior Scientist Program Collaboration in Global Health Ministry of Public Health of Thailand/ CDC
Armando Hoet, Director of Veterinary Public Health, The Ohio State University
Mateus Matiuzzi, Director of Graduate Programs, University of Sao Francisco Valley, Petrolina, Brazil
Bayleyegn Molla, Clin. Asst. Professor, Veterinary Preventive Medicine, The Ohio State University
Prapas Patchanee, Chiang Mai University, Thailand
Lauro Santos Filho, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil
Tania Raso, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Rafael Vieira, Federal University of Paraiba, Brazil

Scientific Program Committee

Silmara Allegretti, Professor, Medical Parasitology, University of Campinas, Brazil
Nitish C Debnath, Professor and National Consultant, Outbreak Response and
Expert Laboratory; Avian Influenza Technical Unit, Food and Agriculure Organization
of the United Nations, Pshusampad Bhaban, Farmgate, Dhaka
Odir Dellagostin, Professor, Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil
Ana Gales, Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil
Daniel Janies, Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Samuel Kariuki, Director, Center for Microbiology Research at the Kenyan
Medical Research Institute and Fellow of Wellcome Trust
Marcelo Labruna, Professor, Vector-borne Parasitology, University of São Paulo
Abhay Satoskar, Professor, Pathology and Vector-borne Diseases at Ohio State
University Medical Center, U.S.A.
Jaap Wagenaar, Professor, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands and Global
Food infection Network (GFN)].