The Technical Advisory Group on Vaccine Preventable Diseases (TAG) ceased its functions in November 2024 to give way to the Strategic Advisory Group on Vaccine Preventable Diseases (SAG VPD).
The SAG VPD is a group of individual experts convened by PAHO to provide technical, scientific, and/or strategic advice to PAHO. According to its advisory function, the SAG VPD advises and recommends –as opposed to approve or decide–. The SAG VPD helps to assess or to analyze, to critically appraise and evaluate a situation, but ultimately, it will provide the Director of PAHO with advice or recommendations that PAHO, in turn, may decide to follow or not to follow.
The SAG VPD is established by the Director of PAHO and composed of external experts acting in their personal capacities and not representing any external entity, authority, or government. The SAG VPD might be called upon to provide specific and time-limited advice or broad and ongoing advice on strategic issues.
Compilation of TAG recommendations for vaccine-preventable diseases
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Mpox
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Meningococcus
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Yellow Fever
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Rotavirus
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Polio
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Pneumococcus
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Pertussis
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Neonatal Tetanus
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Mumps
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Measles
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Influenza
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Hepatitis B
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Haemophilus Influenzae type B (Hib)
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for COVID-19
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Dengue
- 1999-2024 TAG recommendations for Cholera