Dra. Celia M.Alpuche Aranda. She is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician with a PhD in Science-Microbiology and a Post-Doctoral fellowship at the Infectious Diseases Unit-Massachusetts Dra. Celia M.Alpuche Aranda. In Mexico, she was an attending physician and Chief Department of Enteropathogens Laboratory at the Hospital Infantil de México Federico Gomez, Mexico; coordinator of the Infectious diseases and Clinical Microbiology laboratory-Experimental Medicine Department-Medical School-National University of Mexico, Director of the Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference Laboratory of the MOH-Mexico (key element in 2009 influenza pandemic response), mentored undergraduate, master's and PhD students and she has published more than 100 peer review manuscripts. She is member of the National System of Investigators in México (SNI III). Currently, she is Director of the Research Center for Infectious Diseases at the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. She participates in technical and advisory groups at the national and international level (PAHO/WHO, United Nations, etc. Currently she is Coordinator of the NITAG, and the specific for COVID-19, she participate as a member of the WHO, SAGE Working group on COVID-19 vaccines.