Silvia Bino

Silva Bino, MD, Ph.D, is the Head of the Control of Infectious Diseases Department of the Institute of Public Health and an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine, Tirana University, Albania. She was the Director of National Public Health Institute from 2000-2006, and has devoted her career to novel strategies to control infectious diseases and strengthen surveillance systems in resource poor countries. Dr Bino coordinated surveillance, diagnostic, and response activities for pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 in Albania. She is also in the national group for IHR implementation, and has been involved in IHR implementation in Southeastern Europe. Dr Bino has been the Regional Coordinator of the network to strengthen surveillance and control of communicable diseases in South-eastern Europe, which has fostered strengthening of early warning systems, policy development, preparedness and response, applied epidemiology training and expert and institutional collaboration. Since 2000 she has been coordinating the Immunization program and helped to establish a syndromic Early Warning System in Albania. She has authored articles on infectious diseases published in professional and scientific journals and has participated in the writing of different guidelines, books and reports related to infectious diseases, influenza and public health surveillance. She has served as consultant to WHO and other UN agencies. Dr Bino was a member of Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization until April 2009, a member of review committee on the functioning of the international health regulations (2005) and on pandemic influenza A (H1N1) 2009 until 2011 and served as a member of PIP Advisory group until 2014. She earned her medical and doctoral degrees from Tirana University and followed with postgraduate training on infectious diseases, microbiology, epidemiology and public health in Switzerland, Belgium, the United Kingdom and the USA