Members of the technical advisory group, the Foodborne Disease Burden Epidemiology Reference Group (FERG), for 2021–2025, included:
Rob Lake, chair of FERG, Institute of Public Health and Forensic Science, New Zealand; Shannon Majowicz, chair of the FERG enteric disease task force, University of Waterloo, Canada; Paul Torgerson, co-chair of the FERG parasitic disease task force, University of Zürich, Switzerland, and Lucy Robertson, co-chair of the FERG parasitic disease task force, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway; Antonio Agudo, co‑chair of the FERG chemicals and toxins task force, Catalan Institute of Oncology, Spain, and Lea Sletting Jakobsen, co‑chair of the FERG chemicals and toxins task force Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Mirjam Kretzschmar, chair of the FERG computational task force, University Medical Center Utrecht, Kingdom of the Netherlands; Sara Monteiro Pires, chair of the source attribution task force, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; Elaine Scallan Walter, co‑chair of the FERG country support task force, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, United States of America (USA), and Karen Keddy, co‑chair of the FERG country support task force, University of Pretoria, South Africa; and Martyn Kirk, co-chair of the FERG impact measurement task force, Australian National University, Australia, and Sandra Hoffmann, co-chair of the FERG impact measurement task force, George Washington University, USA.
Other FERG members are: Mohammed Al Huthiel, Saudi Food and Drug Authority, Saudi Arabia; Fadi Al Natour, Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority, United Arab Emirates; Li Bai, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, China; Beau Bruce, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA (until January 2025); Brecht Devleesschauwer, Sciensano, Belgium; Sithar Dorjee, Khesar Gyalpo University of Medical Sciences of Bhutan, Bhutan (until October 2023); Teresa Estrada-Garcia, Center for Research and Advanced Studies, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico; Luria Leslie Founou, Centre of Expertise and Biological Diagnostic of Cameroon, Cameroon; Kunihiro Kubota, National Institute of Health Sciences, Japan; Ashok Kumar, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India; Lapo Mughini‑Gras, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Kingdom of the Netherlands; Tety Rachmawati, National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia; and Banchob Sripa, Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
Arie H. Havelaar, University of Florida, USA, provided overall senior technical guidance.
Major contributions to data management and computation of estimates were made by Sciensano, Belgium, through a team led by Brecht Devleesschauwer comprising Carlotta Di Bari, Kim Fernandez and Louise Vaes. Appreciation is also extended to the structured expert judgement study team led by Tina Nane, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Kingdom of the Netherlands, with contributions from Willy Aspinall, Aspinall Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Roger Cooke, TU Delft, Kingdom of the Netherlands; Tine Hald, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark; and the other research assistants, including Bodille Blomaard, Judith Capel, Si‑Jing Chen, Floor Jacobs, Tyren Koning, Vangelis Nakos, Sofia Pereira, Alessandra Primavera, and Femke Schürmann, TU Delft, Kingdom of the Netherlands. WHO thanks the 146 experts who participated in the study and the 64 elicitors for conducting the interviews. WHO thanks Harold van den Berg, WHO Collaborating Centre at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Kingdom of the Netherlands, for his contribution to the study.