New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group
The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) advises the government on the threat posed by new and emerging respiratory viruses.
Role of group
NERVTAG is an expert committee of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), which advises the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and, through the CMO, ministers, DHSC and other government departments.
It provides scientific risk assessment and mitigation advice on the threat posed by new and emerging respiratory viruses and on options for their management.
Code of practice
Membership
Current members are:
- Professor Peter Horby (Chair): University of Oxford
- Professor Wendy Barclay: Imperial College London
- Professor John Edmunds: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Professor Neil Ferguson: Medical Research Council, Imperial College London
- Professor Andrew Hayward: University College London
- Dr Benjamin Killingley: University College London Hospital NHS Trust
- Professor Wei Shen Lim: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Dr Jim McMenamin: Health Protection Scotland
- Professor Peter Openshaw: Imperial College London
- Professor Malcolm Semple: University of Liverpool
- Professor Robert Dingwall: Dingwall Enterprises Ltd. and Nottingham Trent University
- Dr James Rubin: Kings College London
- Dr Cariad Evans: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr Chloe Sellwood: Co-opted Member, NHS England
- Professor Ian Brown: Co-opted Member, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
- Professor Julian Hiscox: Co-opted Member for COVID-19, University of Liverpool
- Dr Muge Cevik: Co-opted Member for COVID-19, University of St Andrews
Members’ biographies
Members’ interests
Annual report
Meetings
NERVTAG: meeting minutes and papers
NERVTAG Secretariat
Public Health England
Wellington House
133-155 Waterloo Road
London
SE1 8UG