National Expert Group on Vaccine Administration for COVID-19 (NEGVAC) is an expert committee constituted by the

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is an Indian government ministry charged with health policy in India. It is also responsible for all government programs relating to family planning in India. The Minister of Health and Family Welfare ...

(MoHFW), India to provide advice and guidance on all aspects of

COVID-19 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...

vaccination. The committee is also responsible for prioritisation of population groups in the country, deciding procurement and inventory management procedure, selection and delivery of vaccines etc.

Committee

NEGVAC was constituted in mid-2020 and first met on 12 August 2020. is chaired by member (Health),

NITI Aayog The NITI Aayog (; abbreviation for National Institution for Transforming India) serves as the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India, and the nodal agency tasked with catalyzing economic development, and fostering cooperative ...

, and co-chaired by the secretary of MoHFW. The committee has representative secretaries from: *

Vinod Kumar Paul Vinod Kumar Paul is an Indian pediatrician and physician scientist currently serving as Member, NITI Aayog. He earlier served as Professor of Neonatology at the Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delh ...

* Department of Expenditure * Department of Biotechnology * Department of Health Research * Department of Pharmaceuticals * Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology * Members representing five state governments * Technical experts Members include Samiran Panda, head of the Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases division in ICMR.

References

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