Technical Advisory Group

The Technical Advisory Group (TAG) is made up of independent specialists in their field who help guide and support MENTOR programmes to improve our technical and operational responses in complex settings. 

Members of the group have been specifically chosen from relevant disciplines to advise MENTOR HQ and country teams and further develop our technical capacity. They will help ensure we effectively address challenges in the humanitarian sector such as the growing number of protracted conflicts, annual increases in scale and complexity of global forced displacement, extreme weather events due to climate change, and changing disease epidemiology.  

Responses need to be tailored to address these realities, and to bolster the protection of people most at risk from tropical diseases. Designing and delivering a package of effective emergency shelter, vector control, and water and sanitation services, together with improved access to good quality emergency primary and secondary healthcare and nutrition services, is vital to save lives and improve epidemiological surveillance in very challenging and insecure contexts. This complex set of challenges requires technically effective and operationally agile solutions that can be delivered in urban, camp and rural environments.  

MENTOR is regularly called upon to advise other non-governmental organisations, governments and inter-governmental organisations, as well as the private sector as leading specialists in diseases and healthcare in humanitarian emergencies. We invest in building the capacity of these organisations and their commitment and engagement in tropical disease control. We advise on effective disease control approaches and are committed to innovating and evaluating new tools designed to prevent, diagnose, treat or record tropical diseases, with a range of partner organisations. 

Maintaining this level of technical leadership relies upon continuous learning, transparency, and exchange of ideas. The expert support of TAG specialists is anticipated to contribute significantly to the organisation’s thinking, planning and decision making.