Open Letter to WHO: Signatures
The below signatures are listed in support of the open letter requesting action from the WHO regarding COVID-19 and older people.
Add your signature to the list below by submitting it here.
| First Name | Last Name | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Abiodun | Adewole | University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
| Abla | Mehio Sibai | American University of Beirut - University for Seniors Program, Lebanon |
| Abla Mehio | Sibai | Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| Adelina | Comas-Herrera | CPEC, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Adrienne | Withall | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Akinloye | Josiah | International Longevity Alliance - Nigeria |
| Alexander | Tietz-Latza | Healthy Life Extension Society |
| Alexandre | Kalache | International Longevity Centre - Brazil |
| Alexandre | da Nova Brandão Francisco | Public Health National School of NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal |
| Alexey | Moskalev | Syktyvkar State University, Russia |
| Alun | Hughes | MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, and Institute of Cardiovascular Science, University College London, UK |
| Amanda | Bolster | Partnership for Influenza Vaccine Introduction |
| Amy | D'Aprix | Dr. Amy D'Aprix Consulting, Inc. |
| Anastasia | Egorova | Open Longevity Community and Science for Life Extension Foundation |
| Andre | Van Rensburg | University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Andre Pascal | Kengne | South African Medical Research Council |
| Andrea | Štefková | |
| Angelique | Chan | Centre for Ageing Research & Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore |
| Anjali | Raje | International Longevity Centre - India |
| Annette | Stegger | Stiftung Stark Im Alter |
| Annette | Reed | Centurion Hospice |
| Ante | Glibota | European Academy Of Arts, Sciences And Humanities, France |
| Anton | Kulaga | International Longevity Alliance |
| Antoni | Torres | Respiratory and Intensive Care Unit, University of Barcelona Hospital Clinic, Spain |
| Antonio | Cano | University of Valencia, Spain |
| Antti | Peltonen | Finnish Longevity Alliance |
| Armand | Keating | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Arvin | Bhana | South African Medical Research Council |
| Aubrey | de Grey | SENS Research Foundation |
| Benedicte | Schoepflin | CNPEA |
| Beverly | Bucur | Soroptimist International |
| Bjarne | Hastrup | Dane Age |
| Bonnie | Schroeder | The Council on Aging of Ottawa |
| Brian | Carpenter | Society of Clinical Geropsychology |
| Bridget | Penhale | University of East Anglia, UK |
| Brun | Ulfhake | Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden |
| Calogero | Caruso | University of Palermo, Italy |
| Carlos André | Uehara | Brazilian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics |
| Carrie | Hayter | Carrie Hayter Consulting PTY Ltd. |
| Catherine | Buckley | All-Ireland Gerontological Nurses Association |
| Catherine | Weil-Olivier | Paris VII University, France |
| Cesar | Victora | International Center for Equity in Health and Federal University of Pelotas, Brazil |
| Charles | Parry | South African Medical Research Council |
| Chiko | Makore | ARUP |
| Chris | Roles | Age International UK |
| Christie | Gardiner | The University of Newcastle, Newcastle Law School, Australia |
| Constança | Paúl | Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Portugal |
| Cynthia | Stuen | NGO Committee on Ageing |
| Daphné | Holt | Coalition for Life Course Immunisation |
| Daria | Khaltourina | Council for Public Health and the Problems of Demography and International Longevity Alliance |
| David | Pisarek | Wow Digital |
| David | Sinclair | International Longevity Centre - UK |
| David | Conn | Canadian Coalition of Seniors Mental Health |
| Debra | Whitman | AARP |
| Desmond | O'Neill | Centre for Ageing, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
| Diarmuid | O'Shea | Irish Gerontological Society |
| Didier | Coeurnelle | Technoprog and International Longevity Alliance |
| Dosse | Sossouga | Amis des Étrangers au Togo (ADET) |
| Ebode Ntsama | Marie Josiane | Yaounde Central Hospital |
| Edouard | Debonneuil | Longévité & Santé and International Longevity Alliance |
| Eduardo | Missoni | Center for Research on Health and Social Care Management, SDA Bocconi Management School, Italy |
| Edward | Leung | Hong Kong Association of Gerontology |
| Eli | Singer | NearNow |
| Elijah | Mwega | KARIKAKENYA |
| Eric | Gilson | Nice University, France |
| Ezra | Susser | Mailman School of Medicine, Colombia University, USA |
| Fiona | Mutoni | |
| Flor | Avila Fematt | National Institute of Geriatrics |
| Frances | Zainoeddin | Gray Panthers |
| Gaëtan | Gavazzi | Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire Grenoble-Alpes, France |
| Gary | Finnegan | Vaccines Today |
| Georg | Füllen | Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research, Germany |
| Georgina | Ellison-Hughes | King's College London, UK |
| Glenda | Gray | South African Medical Research Council |
| Gloria | Gutman | Simon Fraser University Gerontology Research Centre, Canada |
| Graeme | Prior | Hall & Prior Health and Aged Care Group |
| Gulnar | Azevedo e Silva | Brazilian Association of Collective Health |
| Hamid | Sohrabi | Centre for Healthy Ageing, School of Psychology and Exercise Science, Murdoch University, Australia |
| Hanadi | Al Hamad | Hamad Medical Corporation |
| Hans | Jürgen Heppner | German Geriatric Society |
| Hilary | Williams | |
| Holly M | Brown-Borg | University of North Dakota, USA |
| Hom | Shrestha | Laurentian University, Canada |
| Huanxing | Su | University of Macau, China |
| Ian | Yates | COTA Australia |
| Ilia | Stambler | Israeli Longevity Alliance and International Longevity Alliance |
| Ina | Voelcker | BAGSO |
| Iris | Glaser | Leo Baeck Day School |
| Isabella | Aboderin | African Population and Health Research Center |
| J. Jaime | Miranda | Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru |
| Jack | Kupferman | Gray Panthers |
| Jackie | Kaufman | Vaccine Ambassadors |
| Jaco | Hoffman | International Longevity Centre - South Africa |
| Jagadish K | Chhetri | Nepalese Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (NSGG) |
| James | Beckford Saunders | International Longevity Centre - Australia |
| James | Appleby | The Gerontological Society of America |
| Jane | Falkingham | University of Southampton, UK |
| Jane | Simmonds | South African Medical Research Council |
| Janet | Killeen | Alzheimer Scotland |
| Janet | Teasdale | Mosaic Home Care & Community Resource Centres |
| Javier | Cabrera Guerra | Colombian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics |
| Javier | Garau | Hospital Universitari Mutua de Terrassa, Barcelona Clinic Rotger, Spain |
| Jean-Pierre | Michel | European Interdisciplinary Council on Aging |
| Joao Pedro | de Magalhaes | Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, UK |
| Joe | Bornstein | |
| Joel | Sadavoy | Reitman Centre, Sinai Health, Canada |
| John | Stalker | COTA Queensland |
| Joseph | Batac | |
| K.M. Venkat | Narayan | Emory University, USA |
| Karen | Hofman | MRC/Wits Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, Wits School of Public Health, South Africa |
| Kari | Henley | Age Without Borders |
| Karin | Adloch | York University, Canada |
| Kasturi | Sen | Wolfson College, UK |
| Katherine | Kortes-Miller | Lakehead University, Canada |
| Kathleen | Kahn | MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Kavita | Sivaramakrishnan | International Longevity Centre - USA |
| Kelly | Fitzgerald | NGO Committee on Ageing |
| Ken | Bluestone | Age International UK |
| Kevin | Prindiville | Justice in Aging |
| Kim | Wolf | University of Georgia, USA |
| Kimberley | Littlemore | eHealth Digital Media |
| Kiran | Rabheru | Canadian Coalition of Seniors Mental Health |
| Kunlin | Jin | University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA |
| Kyung-Jin | Min | Inha University, South Korea |
| Lauren | Bechard | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Laurence | Ion | International Longevity Alliance - Romania |
| Lee | Wei Lim | University of Hong Kong, China |
| Leocadio | Rodríguez Mañas | Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Spain |
| Lezlie | Lee Kam | OUT of the CLOSET! |
| Lia | Daichman | International Longevity Centre - Argentina |
| Linda | Robinson | Age NI |
| Linda RS | Shepherd | Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre |
| Lindsay | Prior | Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Liora | Kern | Influenza Hub |
| Lisa | Brown | Palo Alto University |
| Louise | Gillis | Canadian Council for the Blind |
| Lucie | Vidovicova | Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Czechia |
| Makandwe | Nyirenda | South African Medical Research Council, Burden of Disease Unit |
| Manjyot | Singh Sandhar | Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Marcus | Ong | Singapore General Hospital, and Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore |
| Margaret | Gillis | International Longevity Centre - Canada |
| Maria | Evandrou | University of Southampton, UK |
| Maria | Entraigues Abramson | International Longevity Alliance - USA |
| María José | Mendieta | University of Basel, Switzerland |
| Mario | Barbagallo | International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European Region |
| Marlene | Krasovitsky | EveryAGE Counts |
| Martin | Lipovšek | Slovenian Society for Vital Life Extension |
| Mary Ann | Tsao | International Longevity Centre Global Alliance |
| Mayur | Bhana | The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited |
| Md Mehedi Hasan | Khan | Department of Population Sciences, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
| Mercedes | Montgomery | Saskatoon Council on Aging |
| Michael | Hodin | Global Coalition on Ageing |
| Mike | O'Connor | Irish Society of Physicians in Geriatric Medicine |
| Mikhail | Batin | Open Longevity Community and Science for Life Extension Foundation |
| Monica | Petras | |
| Monica | Ferreira | International Longevity Centre - South Africa |
| Mubarak | Al Khalifa | Centre for Elderly Empowerment & Care |
| Nabil | Kronfol | Center for Studies on Ageing, Lebanon |
| Nadiya | Kazachkova | IGR clinic |
| Nancy | Pachana | The University of Queensland, Australia |
| Naomi S | Levitt | Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa and University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Nish | Chaturvedi | MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing, University College London, UK |
| Paloma | Oliveto | Correio Braziliense |
| Pam | Groenewald | South African Medical Research Council |
| Paolo | Vineis | MRC Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK |
| Patrick | Aitcheson | SAGE |
| Patrick | Roux | SAS-NA |
| Paul | Van Buynder | Griffith University, Australia |
| Peta | Cook | University of Tasmania, Australia |
| Peter | Evans | ExpertFile |
| Peter | Engelhardt | Aalto University, Finland |
| Philip | Weiss | ZN Consulting |
| Philippe | Thebault | Alliance du Coeur |
| Pilar | Collantes | Voces Ciudadanas |
| Punam | Mangtani | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK |
| Raffaele | Antonelli Incalzi | Italian Society of Geriatrics and Gerontology |
| Ralph | Martins | Edith Cowan University, Australia |
| Raul | Gutierrez | Alzheimer Iberoamerica |
| Renate | Heinisch | Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Seniorenorganisationen |
| Reshma A | Merchant | National University Hospital, Singapore |
| Robert | Dingwall | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
| Robert | Chunhua Zhao | Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & School of Basic Medicine Peking Union Medical College, China |
| Robert J | Shmookler Reis | University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA |
| Robi | Tacutu | Systems Biology Group of Aging, Institute of Biochemistry, Romania |
| Rosalee | Pisarek | |
| Rosy | Pereyra | International Longevity Centre Global Alliance |
| Sally | Greengross | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Samantha | Edmonds | Ageing with Pride |
| Samir | Bhana | |
| Sanjay | Kinra | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK |
| Sarah | Harper | Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK |
| Sasanka | Chakrabarti | Maharishi Markandeshwar University, India |
| Sebastiana | Kalula | International Longevity Centre - South Africa |
| Shah | Ebrahim | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK |
| Shinichi | Ogami | International Longevity Centre - Japan |
| Silvia | Perel-Levin | NGO Committee on Ageing and International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse |
| Siobhan | Casey | Age NI |
| Sonja | Pedell | Swinburne University of Technology, Future Self and Design Living Lab, Australia |
| Soraya | Seedat | Stellenbosch University, South Africa |
| Stefania | Maggi | Institute of Neuroscience of the National Research Council Padua, Aging Branch, Italy |
| Stephen | Tollman | MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa |
| Stuart G | Parker | Newcastle University, UK |
| Susan | McGrath | The Benevolent Society Australia |
| Susan B | Somers | International Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse |
| Susanna | Palkonen | European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations |
| Tanzeen H | Jafar | Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, USA |
| Tasneem | Kathree | University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Ted | van Essen | Nederlandse Influenza Stichting |
| Thomas | Rush | Diabetes Northern Ireland |
| Thomas | Scharf | Newcastle University, UK |
| Timofey | Glinin | Open Longevity Community and Science for Life Extension Foundation |
| Tineke | Abma | Leyden Academy on Vitality and Ageing, Netherlands |
| Vinny | Smith | Meningitis Research Foundation |
| Walter | Crompton | American Longevity Alliance |
| William | Reichman | Baycrest |
| Xenia | Scheil-Adlung | Health Law Institute |
| Yitzhak | Brick | Israeli Gerontological Association |
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