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Committees

General Organizing Committee

• Chair: Abel Laerte Packer
  Director, BIREME/PAHO/WHO

Honor Committee

• Mirta Roses Periago
  Director, PAHO/WHO
• José Saraiva Felipe
  Minister of Health, Brasil
• Donald A.B.Lindberg
  M.D. Director, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Paulo Souto
  Governor, State of Bahia, Brasil
• José Antonio Rodrigues Alves
  State of Bahia Health Secretary 
• João Henrique de Barradas Carneiro
  Mayor city of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil 
• Naomar Monteiro de Almeida Filho
  Rector, Federal University of Bahia, Ministry of Education, Brasil
• Paulo Buss
  President, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Ministry of Health, Brasil
• Derek Law
  Head, Centre for Digital Library Research, Professor, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK

International Committee

• Chair: Tony McSéan
  Director of Library Relations, Elsevier, UK
• Arne Jakobsson
  President EAHIL - European Association for Health Information and Libraries
• Becky Lyon
  Deputy Associate Director for Library Operations, National Library of Medicine, USA
• Bruce Madge
  Head IFLA Health and Biosciences Libraries Section
• David Dickson
  Director, Science and Development Network - SciDev.Net, UK
• Ibrahima Bob
  President AHILA - Association for Health Information and Libraries in África
• Jorge Veiga de Cabo
  Director, Biblioteca Nacional de Ciencias de la Salud, ISCIII, Spain
• Laurie Scott
  President Canadian Health Libraries Association, Canada
• Lenny Rhine
  Director, Health Library, University of Florida, USA
• Llana Peled
  Director Bio-medical Libraries, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Maria Manule Prates
  Librarian, Fac. Biomedical Sciences, Univ. New Lisbon, Portugal
• Masaaki Tonosaki
  Representative Japan Medical Library Association, Japan
• Melanie Kammerman
  President ALIA - Association of Health Libraries Australia
• Michel J. Menou
  ASIS&T International Liaison, France
• Najeeb Al-Shorbaji
  Regional Advisor for Health Information, WHO EMRO, Egipt
• Neil Pakenham-Walsh
  Moderator HIF-net at WHO, Senior Programme Manager, INASP, UK
• Patricia L. Thibodeau
  President MLA - Medical Library Association, USA
• Yvonne Grandbois
  Director, WHO Headquarter Library, Switzerland

International Committee for the Promotion in Latin America and the Caribbean

National Committee

• Coordinator: José Agenor Álvares da Silva
  Executive Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Brazil
• Executive Secretariat: Marcia G. Rollemberg
  Ministry of Health Representative in the BIREME´s National Advisor Committee and the Advisor Committee of the Brasil - Public Health VHL
• Sérgio Alexandre Gaudêncio
  International Health Advisor/ Ministry of Health, Brazil
• Jean Pierre Ernest Küng
  Director Datasus/SE/Ministry of Health
• Ricardo Gamarski
  General Manager, Knowledge Management/Anvisa/Ministry of Health
• Vanize Schuler
  Manager of Tourism and Events, Embratur/Ministry of Tourism, Brasil
• Rubio Cezar da Cruz Lima
  Officer Coordinator, Science and Technology Secretariat for the Social Inclusion, MCT
• Claudio Sampaio IN MEMORIAM
  Director Central Library, UNIFESP/EPM

Sub Committee for promotion and Marketing

• Cooperating Centers of the Virtual Health Library Souces in Brazil

Local Committee

• Coordinator: Maria das Graças Miranda Ribeiro
  Director Central Library, Federal University of Bahia
  Representatives:
• Ana Maria Vaz Sampaio Fiscina
  Center of Research Gonçalo Muniz / Fiocruz
• José Carlos Barbosa Filho
  Director School of Public Health, Secretary of Health of Bahia State
• Luis Eugênio de Souza
  City of Salvador Health Secretary
• Débora Dourado Lopes
  State of Bahia Health Center
• Elza de Oliveira Araújo
  Representative, Private Offices for Health Services, State Council on Health, Secretary of Health for the State of Bahia 
• Helenemarie Schaer Barbosa
  Medical School, FUBA
• Eduardo Luis Andrade Mota
  Public Health Institut, ISC, FUBA
• Kátia Maria Carvalho Custódio
  Information Science Institut, FUBA 
• Maria de Fátima Mendes Martinelli
  Virtual Health Library Network in Bahia
• Maria Clara B.F. Melro
  Health Sciences Institut, FUBA
• Martha Silvia Martinez Silveira
  FTC, School of Medicine, FUBA

Programme Committee

• Chair: Abel L. Packer
  Director BIREME/PAHO/WHO
• Alberto Pellegrini Filho
  Public Health Researcher, Brasil
• Bruce Madge
  President, IFLA Health and Bisciences Libraries Section
• Elenice de Castro
  Coordinatos EVE/GA, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
• Hooman Momen
  Editor, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, WHO
• Pedro Urra
  Director, CNICM/Infomed, Cuba
• Reynaldo Felippe Nery Guimarães
  Vice President of Research and Tecnological Development, FIOCRUZ,
  MH, Brasil
• Paulo Ernani Gadelha Vieira
  Vice President of Institutional Development and Work Management,
  FIOCRUZ, MH, Brasil
• Gladys Faba Beaumont
  Director, Center of Information for Health Decision making, INSP, Mexico
  

Executive Secretariat

• Chair: Elenice de Castro
  Coordinator EVE/GA, BIREME/PAHO/WHO
• Angela Bueloni Cuenca
  Head, Library, Faculty of Public Health, University of São Paulo, Brasil
• Ilma Noronha
  Director, Center for Scientific and Technological Information, FIOCRUZ, MS, Brasil
• Jussara Long
  Head, Library Lincoln de Freitas Filho, National School of Public Health, FIOCRUZ, MH, Brasil
• Eliane Santos
  Manager VHL MS/Library/Cgdi/Saa/Se/MH
• Marylene Rocha de Souza
  Social Comunication Office/GM/MH