Vectorborne Sub-Committee

Terms of Reference

1. To assess the current and potential risk of vectorborne disease in Ireland and to make recommendations to reduce people's risk of disease.
2. To determine the burden of viral CNS infection and to make recommendations regarding its prevention and control.
3. To determine the burden of imported malaria and to make recommendations in relation to provision of advice and guidance.
4. To identify and determine the burden of other significant vectorborne diseases in Ireland and to make recommendations in relation to the provision of advice and guidance.
5. To co-ordinate with the Meningitis Advisory Committee to ensure consistency of guidance and the provision of epidemiological information especially in relation to viral CNS infection viral disease (in order to undertake this work, liaison will be required with the Meningitis Advisory Committee, to consider the terms of references of the viral CNS infection, and to establish best methods of communication in relation to common areas of interest).

 Membership

Paul McKeown
Health Protection Surveillance Centre (Chair)

Jeff Connell
National Virus Reference Laboratory

Brendan Crowley
Consultant Microbiologist, St James's Hospital

Nancy Gallagher
Director of Travel Medicine, RCSI

Patricia Garvey
Health Protection Surveillance Centre

Jeremy Gray
School of Biology and Environmental Science, UCD

Michael Gunn
Department of Agriculture and Food

Elizabeth Keane
Directors of Public Health representative

Tom Kelly
Lecturer in Zoology, UCC

Sam McConkey
Head of Department of International Health and Tropical Medicine, RCSI

Edina Moylett
RCPI Faculty of Paediatrics

Deirdre Murray
RCPI Faculty of Public Health Medicine

Joan O'Riordan
Irish Blood Transfusion Service

Last updated: 17th May 2010