Defra Science Advisory Council
Epidemic Diseases (SAC-ED)
Membership
Co-opted members for AI contingency plan work
Terms of Reference on the AI contingency plan (2005/6)
Published papers by SAC-ED sub-group
For further information on the outbreak please refer to the Defra Avian Influenza disease webpages
Membership
Professor Thomas Meagher (Chair)
Professor Chris Gaskell
Professor Sheila Crispin
Professor Neil Ferguson
Professor Philip Lowe
Professor Jeffrey Waage
Co-opted members for AI contingency plan work
Dr Dennis Alexander
Consultant for the Veterinary Laboratory Agency, Weybridge
Professor Andrew Easton
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick
Professor Rob Fraser
Professor of Agricultural Economics, Imperial College London
Professor Albert Osterhaus
Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam
Professor Geoffrey Parker
School of Biological Science, Liverpool
Professor Arjan Stegeman
Department of Farm Animal Health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University
Terms of Reference on the AI contingency plan (2005/6)
To review the scientific, including veterinary and social science, aspects of Defra's AI contingency plan and other relevant information and to report back to the Science Advisory Council. The subgroup will consider the scientific basis of Defra measures for prevention as well as control of AI.
Published papers by SAC-ED sub-group
SAC-ED (05) 7 - Science underpinning Defra's Avian Influenza contingency plan - Summary of Initial Work and Proposed Terms of Reference
SAC-ED (05) 13 - Science underpinning Defra's Avian Influenza contingency plan - Summary of work completed and Terms of Reference for future activity
SAC-ED (06) 10 - Science underpinning Defra's Avian Influenza contingency plan - Minutes of the meeting held on 26 January 2006 (Annex 1, Questions for Defra)
SAC-ED (06) 21 - Science underpinning Defra's Avian Influenza contingency plan - recommendations for submission to the SAC.
SAC (06) 39 - Science underpinning contingency plan for avian influenza (Defra response) [see also SAC (07) 05 for further discussion of this issue]
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