Public & Professional SERVICE
Department of Para-Clinical Sciences P. Akpaka • Member, European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) (2020 - present) • Member, ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (ESGARS), (2020 - present) President, Caribbean Association of Clinical Microbiologists, Trinidad and Tobago Chapter (Re-elected 2021) • • Member, National Technical Advisory Group COVID-19 vaccine in Trinidad and Tobago, Ministry of Health (January 2021) • Country Representative, Caribbean Association of Clinical Microbiologists, Trinidad and Tobago Chapter (2021)
• Member, Pango Committee, Pango Network (an international team of experts to oversee the identification and naming of different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 virus) (2021 – present) • Coordinator, PAHO Reference Sequencing Laboratory, UWI, Trinidad and Tobago (June 2021 – present) • Director, Trinidad and Tobago Global Virus Network (GVN) Affiliated Centre, UWI St Augustine Campus (2020 - present) • Member (co-opted), Ministry of Health Technical Advisory Committee on Immunisation (2020 – present) • Member, The University of the West Indies COVID-19 Task Force (Feb 2020 – present) • Trinidad and Tobago Representative, Board of Governors, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Aug 2017 – present) • Associate Editor, Virus Evolution Oxford University Press (2015 to present) B.S. Nayak • Member, American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) • Member, Indian Association of Clinical Biochemists (IJCB)
R.J. Edwards •
President, Caribbean Dermatology Association
• Chairperson, Trinidad and Tobago Dermatological Society • Member, The UWI-St Augustine Committee on COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake – Report for the Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of Health, April 2021 M. Ivey • Treasurer/Member, Thoracic Society of Trinidad and Tobago (TSOTT) • Member, American Public Health Association (APHA) • Member, Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) • Member, American Thoracic Society (ATS) • Member, Royal Statistical Society (RSS) R. Khan • Member, Accountability Working Group on the Ministry of Health National Sexual Reproductive Maternal Newborn Child and Adolescent Health (SRMNCAH) committee,January 2020
R. Rao •
Member, Indian Society for the Radiation Biology
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Member, Anatomical Society of India
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