COVID-19 vaccines under the International Health Regulations – We must use the WHO International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis

• Eskild Petersen,
• Daniel Lucey,
• Lucille Blumberg,
• Laura D. Kramer,
• Seif Al-Abri,
• Shui Shan Lee,
• Tatiana de Castro Abreu Pinto,
• Christina W. Obiero,
• Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales,
• Richard Yapi,
• Aisha Abubakar,
• Paul Anantharajah Tambyah,
• Allison Holmes,
• Lin H. Chen

Affiliations

Eskild Petersen

European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ESCMID, Basel, Switzerland; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark; International Society for Infectious Diseases, ISID, Boston, USA; Corresponding author at: Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Palle Juul-Jensens Boulevard 82, DK-8200 Aarhus N.

Daniel Lucey

Department of Medicine and Infectious Disease, Georgetown University Medstar Hospital, Washington DC, USA; Infectious Disease Society of America, IDSA, Arlington, USA

Lucille Blumberg

National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Service and University of Pretoria, South Africa

Laura D. Kramer

New York State Department of Health, The Arbovirus Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, Slingerlands, New York, USA; Department of Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Albany School of Public Health, Albany, New York, USA; International Society for Infectious Diseases, ISID, Boston, USA

Seif Al-Abri

Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Oman

Shui Shan Lee

JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Stanley Ho Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China

Tatiana de Castro Abreu Pinto

Instituto de Microbiologia Paulo de Goes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Christina W. Obiero

Clinical Research Department, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya; Department of Global Health, University of Amsterdam Faculty of Medicine, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales

Public Health and Infection Research Group, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Tecnologica de Pereira, Pereira, Colombia; Grupo de Investigación Biomedicina, Faculty of Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Autónoma de las Americas, Pereira, Colombia

Richard Yapi

Centre d’Entomologie Médicale et Vétérinaire, CEMV – Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire

Aisha Abubakar

Department of Community Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria

Paul Anantharajah Tambyah

International Society for Infectious Diseases, ISID, Boston, USA; Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Translational Research Program, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Allison Holmes

International Society for Infectious Diseases, ISID, Boston, USA; National Institute for Health Research, Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK; Department of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Lin H. Chen

International Society of Travel Medicine, ISTM, Atlanta, USA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Travel Medicine Center, Division of Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, USA