Muhamed-Kheir Taha MD, PhD, is a Research Director at the Institut Pasteur Paris, France where he heads the Invasive bacterial infections unit. His scientific interests are in the fields of molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases and the pathogenesis of meningococcal and Haemophilus influenzae disease. He also heads the French reference centers for meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae as well as the WHO collaborating contre for meningitis.

Anna Skoczyńska (PhD, assoc. prof.) is head of the Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology and head of the National Reference Centre for Bacterial Meningitis in the National Medicines Institute in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests have been mainly focused on bacterial pathogens responsible for community-acquired invasive infections, Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae.

Assoc. Prof. Suzana Bukovski, MD, PhD is Head of the department of parasitology at the University Hospital for Infectious Diseases "Dr Fran Mihaljević". She is a specialist in the field of Microbiology from prevention through diagnosis and treatment, especially on field of rapid diagnostics of severe infective diseases with introduction of new methods.

Dr. med. Thiên-Trí Lâm is deputy head of the diagnostic department at the Institute for Hygiene Microbiology of the University of Würzburg and member of the German National Reference Laboratory for Meningococci and Haemophilus influenzae (NRZMHi). His research focus is on epidemiology and antibiotic resistance of invasive Haemophilus influenzae.