List of founding members and countries represented

Name	Surname	Title	Institution	Country
Fawzi	Derrar	Head of National Influenza Center	Pasteur Institute	Algeria
Hesham	Tarraf	Professor of Internal Medicine and Allergy	Cairo University, Egypt	Egypt
Ossama	Rasslan	Head	Egyptian Society for Infection Control	Egypt
Masoud	Mardani	Professor, Head of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Department	Faculty of Medicine, Shaheed Behesti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran	Iran
Ombeva	Malande Oliver	Director	East Africa Centre for Vaccines & Immunisation (ECAVI)	Kenya
Fatima	Al Slail		Ministry of Health	KSA
Ghassan	Dbaibo	Professor	Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut	Lebanon
Hassan	Zaraket	Assistant Professor	Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut	Lebanon
Mohamed	Abugalia	Director, Health Protection and Promotion Directorate	National Centre for Disease Control	Libya
Suleiman	Abusrewil	Professor of Child Health and Survival	Medical School, Tripoli University	Libya
Milad	Gahwagi	Associate Professor	University of Benghazi	Libya
Jalal	Nourlil	Head of Medical Virology Laboratory	Pasteur Institute, Cassablanca	Morocco
Hicham	Oumzil	Virology Department	National Institute of Hygiene	Morocco
Salah	Al Awaidy		Ministry of Health	Oman
Sajid	Maqbool	Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics	Children’s Hospital, Lahore	Pakistan
Yusuf Kamal	Mirza	Honorary Professor of Medicine	Agha Khan University	Pakistan
Marta	Nunes	Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit (RMPRU)	University of the Witwatersrand	South Africa
Salim	Parker	South African Society of Travel Medicine	University of Cape Town	South Africa
Jalila	Ben Khelil	Intensivist in Medical ICU Department, Professor and Head of Department of Medicine, Responsible for SARI Flu Surveillance	Hospital Abderrahmene Mami, Faculty of Medicine	Tunisia
Esin	Şenol	Professor, Infectious Diseases Department	Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University	Turkey
Serhat	Ünal	Professor, Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology	Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University	Turkey
Mine	Durusu Tanriover	Professor of Internal Medicine	Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University	Turkey
Nur	Baran Aksakal	Professor, Department of Public Health	Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University	Turkey