Members of the International Committee for Congenital Anomaly Surveillance Tools include representatives of the major networks conducting birth defect surveillance and most regions of the world:

  • H. Dolk, EUROmediCAT, Ulster University, UK (Chair)
  • I. Barisic, EUROCAT, Department of Genetics, Children’s University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia
  • L. Barlow, The Makerere University-John Hopkins University Research Collaboration, Uganda
  • L. Botto ICBDSR, University of Utah, USA
  • E. Garne EUROCAT, Lillebaelt Hospital, Denmark.
  • P Guatibonza, Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC), Colombia
  • C. Halleux, WHO TDR, Geneva, Switzerland (Corinne Merle WHO TDR from August 2020)
  • L. Holmes, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA and WHO TDR Advisor 
  • C. Moore, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Atlanta, USA
  • I. Orioli, Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations (ECLAMC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  • N. Raina, World Health Organization, Regional Office for South East Asia (WHO SEARO), New Delhi, India
  • D. Valencia, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA
  • O. Lincetto, WHO MCA, Geneva, Switzerland (from January 2021); S. Walani WHO MCA, Geneva, Switzerland (from April 2022)
  • U. Mehta, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town (from April 2022)

Translation services

The committee wishes to thank the following people who have provided translation services so that that the Global Birth Defects Description and Coding (GBDDC) app could be provided in Spanish, Portuguese and French:

SPANISH TRANSLATION 

Dr Cecilia Mellado is a Chilean certified clinical geneticist, Associate Professor, and Head of the Genetic Unit, Division of Pediatrics at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Red Salud UC-CHRISTUS and the Public Hospital Complejo Asistencial Dr. Sotero del Rio. Santiago, Chile. Her clinical and research interests include general genetics, genetics of monogenic and complex genetic conditions, birth defects, perinatal genetics, and hereditary cancer.​ During the past years Dr. Mellado have been working at the Chilean Ministry of Health on the National Registry of Congenital Anomalies.

The Spanish translation of instruction videos and materials was provided by Mariana Piola at the ECLAMC/RELAMC coordination centre in Buenos Aires.

PORTUGUESE TRANSLATION

Dr Lavinia Schuler Faccini is Professor in the Department of Genetics at the Universidad Federal do Rio Grande do Sul / Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre in Brazil.

FRENCH TRANSLATION

Neil Derridj MD, PhD is a French pediatric cardiologist practicing at the Necker Hospital in Paris. He completed his doctorate in Public Health Epidemiology at Paris Cité University in the INSERM Unit UMR 1153 in Paris, France.

Dr Charlotte Dubucs is a French clinical geneticist and foetopathologist working in the University of Toulouse Hospital. Her clinical and research interests include general genetics with polymalformative syndrome, prenatal genetics, embryonic developmental anomaly, management of fetuses resulting from pregnancy failure (spontaneous terminations of pregnancy, termination of pregnancy for medical reasons, intra-uterin fetal death, and neonatal deaths). She is specialized on ocular defects.

Dr Eric Ipyn Nebie, MD, MSc is a public heath doctor based at the Centre de Recherche en Sante de Nouna(CRSN), Burkina Faso, and a PhD candidate in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.