Professor Sáfadi is the Head of the Department of Pediatrics and also the Coordinator of the Postgraduate course in Health Sciences at Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, and for more than 10 years has been working as a Member of the Permanent Advisory Board on Immunization Practices for the Secretary of Health in the State of São Paulo and also for the Ministry of Health in Brazil. He is currently the Chairman of the Department of Immunization for the Society of Pediatrics, São Paulo, and the Chairman of the Department of Infectious Diseases for the Brazilian Society of Pediatrics. Prof. Sáfadi is also an active member of many societies, including the Latin American Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases (SLIPE), and European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases. He is currently a Member of the International Scientific Committee for World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases and was the first nominated Liaison Representative for SLIPE at the Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID) – Red Book - American Academy of Pediatrics from 2011 to 2015. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Meningococcal Initiative, and a Member of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Confederation of Meningitis Organisations recently merged with the Meningitis Research Foundation. He is an expert member of the SAGE Working Group on Meningococcal Vaccines and Vaccination from WHO. In 2021 Prof Sáfadi was nominated by the Ministry of Health to be the liaison representative for the Brazilian NITAG in the SAGE Immunization Group from WHO.

- 2nd Year Paediatrics Resident at Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Portugal - Special interest in Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology and Nephrology - Currently participating in multiple research projects in the Paediatrics' field at ICBAS/CHUP - Actively involved in the teaching programme of medical students at ICBAS - Certificate of Proficiency in English

I am a neonatologist and I am especially interested in perinatal infectious disease, neonatal neurology and neonatal cranial ultrasound.

Born in November 1967. Degree in Medicine in 1991 Specialist in Pediatrics 1997 Bachelor in Medicine 2002 Skill expertises in pediatric infectious diseases with a great interest in osteoarticular infections, tuberculosis & atypical mycobacteria, leishmania and streptococcal diseases Last year special interest in Pediatric Coronavirus disease ESPID Member and Member of Spanish Pediatric Infectology Society Participation in more than 50 papers, Spanish or international (20 as first author). Present in last 10 years in Spanish or international Pediatric Infectious diseases Congress as speaker

Medical education and qualifications: Specialization in Pediatrics, Aghia Sofia General Children's Hospital, Athens, Greece PhD candidate in Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in the field of Pediatric Asthma MSc in ‘’Pediatric Infectious Diseases’’, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical Degree, School of Health Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Ana Lucia Sartori is an Assistant Professor at the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT-Sinop) located in the Center-West Region of Brazil. She graduated in Nursing from Universidade Paranaense in 2007, Master in Nursing from Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) in 2009, and Ph.D. in Tropical Medicine and Public Health, with concentration competencies in the area of epidemiology from UFG in 2012. She teaches in child and adolescent health discipline from the nursing course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso. She develops a research project on the incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases in the State of Mato Grosso. She coordinates a University Extension Program on surveillance clinical signs and symptoms in suspected and/or confirmed patients for COVID-19 in the municipality of Sinop, Mato Grosso.

I am a pediatric resident interested in infectious disease and specially in congenital CMV research and clinical manegment. I am currently working with the team of the Immune and Infectious Disease Unit of Bambino Gesù Children's hospital on different topics related to congenital CMV infection such us Magnetic Resonance Imaging role, Immunological predicting factors, Neurodevelopmental outcome, etc. We are also interested in prevention of CMV transmission with new drugs, introduction of universal screening and the vaccine technology.