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Status
Active
Title of the centre:
  WHO Collaborating Centre for Smallpox and Other Poxvirus Infections

Director / Head: 
  Dr Christina Hutson
  Dr




Institution:
  Poxvirus Team, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Address:
  CDC 1600 Clifton Road, Building 23 Fourth Floor Office 135 Mailstop H23-4
  30333
  GA
Town:
  Atlanta
Country:
  USA
Region:
  AMRO
Phone:
  (1-404) 639 1081
Fax:
  (1-404) 639 1060
Web Site:
  http://www.cdc.gov
Date of Designation:
  01/Jan/1967
Last Redesignation:
  10/Aug/2021
Expiry:
  10/Aug/2025
Terms of Reference:
  1. To assist WHO in implementing the resolutions of the World Health Assembly regarding 1) the study, maintenance or destruction of all variola virus strains and related materials held at CDC, and 2) implementation of biennial WHO biosafety and biosecurity inspections of the variola virus repository and research laboratory 
  2. To formally register with WHO all variola virus strains held at CDC and recombinant plasmids containing variola virus DNA sequences produced in the laboratory and notify WHO of provision by CDC of plasmids to other entities, per current recommendations  
  3. To cooperate with WHO in implementing the smallpox research agenda and making the results of research using live variola virus available to the international community in a timely manner  
  4. To provide WHO with requested technical expertise to facilitate poxvirus research globally and support countries and laboratory networks, in collaboration with WHO, to ensure timely diagnosis of suspected orthopoxvirus cases  
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Subjects:
  1. Smallpox 
  2. Communicable diseases other than those specifically mentioned 
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Types of activity:
  1. Collection and collation of information 
  2. Research 
  3. Outbreaks and emergencies 
WHO Outputs:
  2.2.3 - Mitigate the risk of the emergence and re-emergence of high-threat pathogens
 
 
Responsible Officer:
  LEWIS Rosamund F.
Phone:
  +41 22 791 4043
Email:
  lewisr@who.int

Technical Counterpart:
  MENDEZ RICO Jairo Andres
Phone:
  +1 43070
Email:
  ricoj@paho.org
Access to annual progress reports and the current workplan (this is accessible to WHO Staff Members only):
  Link to eWork