The Council assists the Executive Committee in managing ISID's activities through participation on committees and working groups.  The Council is distributed according to World Health Organization regions to ensure that all regions of the world are represented in the governing structure of the Society.  Council members serve a six-year term.  The Nominations Committee proposes candidates to fill vacancies in the Council.  Society members vote on the recommendations of the Nominations Committee at the biennial meeting.  Any member in good standing may submit his or her name to the Nominations Committee for consideration for Council membership.

	Paul BROWN	Jamaica	University of the West Indies at Mona	Molecular microbiology
	Jun CHENG	China	Beijing Ditan Hospital	Infectious diseases, viral hepatitis
	Sergio CIMMERMAN	Brazil	Instituto de Infectologia Eemilio Ribas	Intestinal parasitosis, Intestinal Parasitosis and AIDS, Tropical Medicine
	Javier ENA	Spain	Consultant, Department of Medicine, Hospital Marina Baixa Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante	Tuberculosis, HIV infection
	Teshome GEBRE	Ethiopia	Regional Representative for Africa, The Task Force for Global Health Inc.	Health Care Management Specialist (with more focus on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases)
	Barry GILBERT	Australia	Private Public Health practice	Public health
	Bart GORDTS	Belgium	Head of infection control Ziekenhuisnetwerk Antwerpen (ZNA)	Healthcare associated infections, microbiology, information technology and expert systems
	Maria G. GUZMAN	Cuba	"Pedro Kouri" of Tropical Medicine Institute, Havana Head Virology Department Director PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for the study of dengue and its vector	Virology and specifically dengue (diagnostic, pathogenesis, vaccine research, epidemiology)
	Rana A. HAJJEH	USA	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Infectious Diseases in the Middle East
	Hsieh-Shong LEU	Taiwan	Taiwan Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Medical Center	Hospital Epidemiology, Patient care of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine
	Cristina MARINO	Columbia	Pediatric Infectologist and coordinates the Area of Pediatric Infectous Diseases at the Military Hospital in Bogota. Associate Professor	Vaccines and antibiotic stewardship
	Francois-Xavier MBOPI-KEOU	Cameroon	Director, National Public Health Laboratory, Ministry of Public Health Teaching Coordinator, University of Yaoundé I, Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases	Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Infectious Diseases & International Health
	Shaheen MEHTAR	South Africa	Stellenbosch University, Cape Town Chair of the Infection Control Africa Network	Infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship and community based infection control programmes
	Ziad A. MEMISH	Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia	Deputy Minister of Health for Public Health Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Mass Gathering Medicine	Public Health, Infectious Diseases
	Miguel O'RYAN	Chile	University of Chile	Pediatric Infectious Diseases
	Didier PITTET	Switzerland	University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine	Healthcare-associated infection, hospital epidemiology, patient safety, infectious diseases, public health
	Ranjan PREMARATNA	Sri Lanka	Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya	Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine, Dengue, Rickettsial Diseases, Lymphatic Filariasis, Malaria
	RK RATHO	India	Prof and Head, Department of Virology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and research, Chandigarh	Medical Virologist; working in the field of Epidemiology and molecular pathogenesis of Arboviral (Dengue, Japanese Encephalitis, Chikungunya) infections, Viral hepatitis E and viral infections in organ transplants
	Sally ROBERTS	New Zealand	Clinical Head of Microbiology, Auckland District Health Board	Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician
	Eduardo SAVIO	Venezuela	Asociación Panamericana de Infectologia	HIV infection. Viral hepatitis
	Atef M. SHIBL	Saudi Arabia	Consultant microbiologist, Coordinator of all national surveillance on antibiotic resistance.	Bacteriology (pathogenesis of different organisms)
	Yupin SUPUTTAMONGKOL	Thailand	Division of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok	Tropical infectious diseases (malaria, melioidosis and leptospirosis)
	Vladimir KRCMÉRY	Slovak Republic	St. Elizabeth University Tropical Institute	Tropical infectious Diseases, fungal infectious diseases
	Shabir A. MADHI	South Africa	National Institute for Communicable Diseases	Pediatrics ID, Vaccinology against respiratory pathogens, HIV-infected children
	Neelika MALAVIGE	Sri Lanka	Senior lecturer, Department of Microbiology, University of Sri Jayawardenapura, Sri Lanka and Academic visitor, Nuffield Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Oxford	viral immunology
	Marie-Christine ROY	Canada	Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus CHU de Québec	Microbiolgy & Infectious Diseases, and Infection Control
	Zeinab Hassan AL-WAHSH	Jordan
	Zulfiqar BHUTTA	Pakistan
	Pedro CAHN	Argentina
	Nii HANSON-NORTEY	Ghana
	Alison HOLMES	UK
	Aikichi IWAMOTO	Japan
	Alaine Umubyeyi NYARUHIRIRA	Rwanda
	Roberto SALVINO	Philippines
	Constance WENDT	Germany
	Sergio WEY	Brazil