Advancing the global health security agenda in light of the 2015 annual Hajj pilgrimage and other mass gatherings

• Habida Elachola,
• Abdullah Assiri,
• Abdual Hafiz Turkestani,
• Samba S. Sow,
• Eskild Petersen,
• Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,
• Ziad A. Memish

Affiliations

Habida Elachola

Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah Assiri

Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdual Hafiz Turkestani

Makkah regional Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Samba S. Sow

Ministry of Health, Bamako, Mali

Eskild Petersen

Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmar

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq

Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Ziad A. Memish

Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia