New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group

The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) is an advisory body that advises the UK Department of Health and Social Care regarding threats from viral respiratory tract infections, As of 2020, the group has been advising the Department of Health for some years, now in particular, on the COVID-19 pandemic.

Members

As of May 2020, its members were:

• Professor Peter Horby (Chair), epidemiologist, University of Oxford
• Professor Wendy Barclay, virologist, Imperial College London
• Professor Robert Dingwall, sociologist, Dingwall Enterprises Ltd. and Nottingham Trent University
• Professor John Edmunds, epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Dr Cariad Evans, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Neil Ferguson, epidemiologist, Medical Research Council, Imperial College London
• Professor Andrew Hayward, epidemiologist, University College London
• Dr Benjamin Killingley, medical consultant, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• Professor Wei Shen Lim, medical consultant, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
• Dr Jim McMenamin, immunologist, Health Protection Scotland
• Professor Peter Openshaw, immunologist, Imperial College London
• Dr James Rubin, psychologist, Kings College London
• Professor Calum Semple, consultant pediatrician, University of Liverpool
• Dr Chloe Sellwood (Co-opted Member), Pandemic Flu Lead at NHS England
• Professor Ian Brown (Co-opted Member), virologist, Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)

See also

• Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
• Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens

External links

• Official website