Slow Progress In Finalizing Measles And Rubella Elimination In The European Region

Affiliations

• ¹ Robin Biellik ([email protected]) is a retired World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist living in Geneva, Switzerland.
• ² Iria Davidkin is a retired senior researcher in the Viral Infections Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, in Helsinki, Finland.
• ³ Susanna Esposito is head of the Pediatric Highly Intensive Care Unit, Università degli Studi di Milano, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, in Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Andrey Lobanov is a retired WHO medical officer living in Moscow, the Russian Federation.
• ⁵ Mira Kojouharova is deputy head of the National Center for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, Ministry of Health, in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• ⁶ Günter Pfaff is head of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Reporting in the Baden-Württemberg State Health Office, in Stuttgart, Germany.
• ⁷ José Ignacio Santos is a professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Mexico City.
• ⁸ John Simpson is interim director of the Division of Emergency Preparedness, Resilience, and Response, Public Health England, in Salisbury.
• ⁹ Myriam Ben Mamou is coordinator of the Measles and Rubella Laboratory, Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment, WHO Regional Office for Europe, in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ¹⁰ Robb Butler is program manager in the Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• ¹¹ Sergei Deshevoi is a medical officer in the Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• ¹² Shahin Huseynov is a technical officer in the Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• ¹³ Dragan Jankovic is a technical officer in the Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
• ¹⁴ Abigail Shefer is a medical officer in the Global Immunization Division at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in Atlanta, Georgia. At the time of this work, she was a technical officer in the Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security, and Environment, in the WHO Regional Office for Europe.