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A group photo of the Global Meningococcal Initiative.

The Global Meningococcal Initiative

We're a founding partner of the GMI, an international group of scientists and clinicians collaborating to prevent invasive meningococcal disease.

The Global Meningococcal Initiative (GMI) is an international group of scientists, clinicians and public health officials. The GMI was formed in 2009. It aims to help prevent invasive meningococcal disease by working together to build a body of scientific literature which supports increased education, research and collaboration worldwide.  

Meningococcal bacteria are the main cause of life-threatening bacterial meningitis and sepsis across the world. 

Meningitis Research Foundation was a founding partner of the GMI and sits on its steering group. Our role is to connect the GMI’s research with those who will directly benefit from the findings – patients, families and caregivers.  

Meningitis Research Foundation is delighted to have partnered with GMI for over 15 years, supporting the research published by the Initiative’s members to reach the communities and people who can use and apply the findings, so they directly help patients and their families across the world.
Vinny Smith, Meningitis Research Foundation Chief Executive and GMI steering group member

GMI steering group members 

  • Chair: Ray Borrow, UK Health Security Agency, Manchester, UK 
  • Muhamed-Kheir Taha, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France 
  • Julio Vázquez, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain 
  • Marco Safadi, FCM of the Santa Casa de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil 
  • Lee Harrison, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA 
  • Dominique Andree Yvette Caugant, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway 
  • Ener Cagri Dinleyici, Eskisehir Osmangazi University Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir, Turkey 
  • Vinny Smith, Meningitis Research Foundation, Bristol, UK 

 

“This partnership can be instrumental in helping to share and build a better understanding of the global picture of this dreadful disease. I look forward to seeing researchers and health professionals around the world accessing and using the information to help them in their work.”

Professor Ray Borrow, UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and GMI steering group member 

GMI’s publications 

This list includes all peer-reviewed scientific papers, posters and recommendations. Please note all links will take you to another website or journal platform.  

  • Meningococcal infections among refugees and immigrants: silent threats of past, present and future (2020)   

 

The work of the GMI is supported by an unrestricted grant from Sanofi. Its work is independent, with no funder having influence on its focus or editorial control on its output.