Direction
The WHO's Multi-Country Studies unit runs SAGE and is headed by Dr Somnath Chatterji. The unit is under the direction of Dr Ties Boerma in the Department of Health Statistics and Information Systems. Dr Chatterji is SAGE Principal Investigator, Dr Paul Kowal is co-Principal Investigator, Ms Nirmala Naidoo is the lead statistician, with regular contributions from other members of the WHO SAGE team. Country Primary Investigators (Wu Fan, Shanghai CDC, China; Richard Biritwum, University of Ghana, Ghana; Perianayagam Arokiasamy, IIPS, India; Ruy Lopez Ridaura, Mara Tellez Rojo, Aaron Salinas Rodriguez and Betty Soledad Manrique Espinoza, INSP, Mexico; Tamara Maximova, RAMS, Russian Federation; and, Refilwe Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya and Karl Peltzer, HSRC, South Africa) and survey teams lead the efforts in each of the participating SAGE countries, from data collection and dissemination, to analysis and manuscript preparation.
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