Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG)
Established first in 2007, Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG) is a WHO’s technical advisory group that advises WHO on the methodology to estimate the burden of foodborne diseases. Its work now also includes advising WHO on the methodology to develop and monitor global food safety indicators.

Members

Dr Antonio Agudo

Senior Epidemiologist, Cancer Epidemiology Research Program, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain

Mr Mohammed Al Huthiel

Risk Assessment Expert, Food Sector, Saudi Food & Drug Authority, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Dr Fadi Al Natour

Agri-Food Risk assessment specialist, Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, United Arab Emirates

Dr Li Bai

Deputy Director, Division I of Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, China

Dr Beau Bruce

Deputy Branch Chief, Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, United States of America

Dr Brecht Devleesschauwer

Senior epidemiologist, Sciensano (Belgian institute for health), Belgium

Dr Teresa Estrada-Garcia

Researcher and lecturer at the Biomedicine Department of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN) Mexico City, Mexico

Dr Luria Leslie Founou

Co-Founder, Deputy CEO and Head of Research, Centre of Expertise and Biological Diagnostic of Cameroon (CEDBCAM), Cameroon

Dr Tesfaye Gobena

Associate Professor of Public Health in College of Health and Medical Science of Haramaya University, Ethiopia

Dr Sandra Hoffmann

Senior Economist, US Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, United States of America

Dr Lea Sletting Jakobsen

Researcher, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Dr Karen Keddy

Professor / Term Head, Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, Faculty Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria

Dr Martyn Kirk

Professor, Epidemiology/NHMRC Career Development Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Australia

Dr Mirjam Kretzschmar

Professor, Dynamics of Infectious Diseases, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht University, the Netherlands; National Institute of Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Netherlands

Dr Kunihiro Kubota

Section Chief, Division of Food Safety Information, National Institute of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

Dr Ashok Kumar

Retired Additional Director General, Central Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India

Dr Rob Lake

Manager, Risk Assessment and Social Systems Group, Institute of Environmental Science and Research, New Zealand

Dr Shannon Majowicz

Associate Professor, School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Canada

Dr Lapo Mughini-Gras

Senior epidemiologist and Associate professor, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), the Netherlands Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Utrecht University, Netherlands

Dr Sara Monteiro Pires

Senior scientist, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Dr Tety Rachmawati

Researcher, Center of Research and Development for Humanities and Health Management, Indonesia

Dr Lucy Robertson

Professor and Head, Parasitology Lab, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway

Dr Elaine Scallan Walter

Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology Colorado School of Public Health, United States of America

Dr Banchob Sripa

Professor & Head, Tropical Disease Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Dr Paul Torgerson

Professor, Veterinary Epidemiology (Lehrstuhl), University of Zürich, Switzerland