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

Affiliations

• ¹ Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• ² Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
• ³ Makkah regional Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
• ⁴ Ministry of Health, Bamako, Mali.
• ⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Aarhus University Hospital Skejby, Aarhus, Denmar.
• ⁶ Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• ⁷ Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; College of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Electronic address: zmemish@yahoo.com.