"Abu Tholib Aman, MD, MSc, PhD, Clinical Microbiologist, is a member Executive Committee, South East Asia Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network (SEAICRN) from Indonesia.  He got his MD from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, his PhD from Bristol University, UK and did One-year-Post doc. at CDC Atlanta Diseases under Dr. Roger Glass supervision. Dr. Aman is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, University of Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.  He is also a member of the Steering Committee of INA-RESPOND, the Indonesia Research Partnership on Infectious Disease"

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"Dr Warunee Punpanich Vandepitte completed her residency program in Pediatrics in 1997 and then pursues her career in pediatric infectious diseases. She later obtained her PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California, at Los Angeles in 2009.Currently, she is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the College of Medicine, Rangsit University. She also serves as Chair of Research and Technology Assessment Unit of the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Thailand. Her current duties involve patient care, teaching, research, and international collaboration activities. Her research interests include vaccines, antibiotic resistance, antibiotic smart use program, clinical research, invasive bacterial infection in children."

"Dr Nguyen Van Kinh is an Infectious Diseases physician. He graduated from Hanoi Medical University as a medical doctor in 1982 and finished Internal Medicine residency at Hanoi Medical University in 1985. He completed one year fellowship on Infectious Diseases in Pasteur Paris Institute, France in 1991.

He has had many experiences on Infectious Diseases, especially in HIV/AIDS and has been PI in various research studies such as HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, dengue hemorragic fever, influenza, hand food and mouth diseases.  His articles have been published in  national and international journals (32 International and 57 National articles).

He is the chairman of Vietnamese Society of Infectious Disease and also the chairman of Scientific Committee-Ethic Committee of NHTD.  Now, he is Director of National Hospital for Tropical Diseases (NHTD) and a chief of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Hanoi Medical University"

"Dr. Phan Huu Phuc completed his residency program in Pediatrics in 2000 and then pursued his career in pediatric critical care medicine. He obtained his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2012. Currently, he serves as Deputy Head, Medical Intensive Care Unit of the National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi, Vietnam and also responsible for Clinical Research Division of the Research Institute for Child Health. His current duties involve direct patient care, teaching, research, and international collaboration activities. His research interests include clinical & epidemiology of sepsis/septic shock, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and infectious diseases in critically ill children."

"Dr Thwaites qualified from Cambridge University and the United Medical and Dental schools of Guy’s and St Thomas’ and trained in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology in Brighton, the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Viet Nam, Imperial College London, and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in London. His research interests focus on the management of severe bacterial infections, especially those involving the central nervous system. He has held Wellcome Trust Training (2001-2004) and Intermediate (2006-2011) Fellowships to study tuberculosis, and is currently chief investigator and co-investigator respectively for two large, multi-centre, NIHR-funded, randomised controlled controls investigating adjunctive rifampicin for S. aureus bacteraemia (the ARREST trial), and intravenous versus oral antibiotics for bone and joint infections (the OVIVA trial) in the UK. He is founder and Chairman of the UK Clinical Infection Research Group (UKCIRG).

Between 2011 and 2013 he was a Reader in Infectious Diseases at King’s College London and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. In October 2013 he returned to Viet Nam to take over from Jeremy Farrar as the Director of OUCRU"

"Dr Michael Chew is a Science Portfolio Advisor at the Wellcome Trust where he develops, implements and manages strategic funding activities in the scientific areas of infectious disease, immune-biology and global health. He oversees a number of large international projects including the Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programmes in Thailand and Viet Nam. He also manages the Trust’s Public Health and Tropical Medicine Fellowship scheme for scientists from low and middle income countries. He graduated BSc Zoology from University of Malaya before completing a PhD in Parasitology at Imperial College London. Prior to joining the Wellcome Trust he was a post-doctoral scientist at Imperial College, mainly working on the structure and biophysics of fibrous proteins like collagen and myosin, and developing techniques to investigate the role of non-fibrous connective tissues in micro-vascular permeability"