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
Chair
- Professor Nicola Lewis: Francis Crick Institute and Royal Veterinary College
Members
- Professor Graham Cooke: Imperial College, London
- Professor Susanna Dunachie: University of Oxford
- Dr Cariad Evans: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Christophe Fraser: University of Oxford
- Professor Julian Hiscox: University of Liverpool
- Professor Katie Jeffery: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Professor Matt Keeling: University of Warwick
- Professor James Rubin: Kings’ College, London
- Professor Emma Thomson: University of Glasgow
Co-opted members
- Professor Wendy Barclay: Imperial College London
- Professor Ian Brown: The Pirbright Institute
- Professor Andrew Hayward: UKHSA and University College London
- Professor Jim McMenamin: Public Health Scotland
- Dr Lisa Ritchie: NHS England
- Dr Chloe Sellwood: NHS
Members’ biographies
Members’ interests
Annual report
Meetings
NERVTAG: meeting minutes and papers
NERVTAG secretariat
UK Health Security Agency
5th floor, 10 South Colonnade
London
E14 4PU