2010- Governmental commission on climate change and infectious diseases
2009 Commission on climate change and animal inf. diseases to the governmental investigation on the handling of animal inf.
diseases(Djursmittoutredningen), Agricult. Ministry
2007- 2010 The trend surveillance and analysis Group (omvärldsråd) at SVA.
2006-2007 The working group on “Sweden facing climate change -threats and opportunities",
Sustainable Ministry, producing SOU 2007:62
2004- 2008 The working group Uppsala Food and Nutrition Centre (ULC), (SLU, Uppsala University, National Food Adm.)
2004-2008 The coordination group for research and development of Organic Farming, Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, SLU
2006 Invited speaker “EHEC and biosecurity in the environment” Society for Science in Veterinary Medicine, Seminar/70 years
celebration, Uppsala.
2006 Moderator Seminar “Some vine and some water - about tomorrows climate and food security”. (ULC), Uppsala

American Society for Microbiology, since 2002
American Association of Immunologists, since 2002
Mexican Society of Immunology, since 2000
Mexican Society of Parasitology, since 2006

1994-2002 Secretary and treasurer of the German Society of Nephrology
2000-2001 President of the German Physiological Society
2003-2006 Student Dean for preclinical studies, University of Tübingen
2007/2008 President of the German Society of Nephrology

Member of the Dutch Society for Microbiology.
Member of the American Society for Microbiology.
Member of the Steering Board of the International Leptospirosis Society (ILS), 1994 to 1996.
Secretary of the ILS, September 1996 to October 2002.
Secretary of the Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Leptospira, 1999 to 2005.
Registered as Medical Microbiology Research Scientists since 2001.
Member of the board of editors of the journal Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials (ACMA) since 2006
Member of the editorial board of the journal Guts Pathogens since 2009
Academic editor of the journal PLoS ONE since 2010

Japanese Society of Tropical Medicine
Japan Society of Medical Entomology and Zoology
The Japanese Society of Veterinary Science
The Japanese Society of Veterinary Parasitologists

1997- Present: Life member - Graduate Biochemists Association (GBA), Bangladesh.
2008-2009: Member - American Society for Microbiology (ASM), USA.

Tanzania Public Health Association
Medical association of Tanzania
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
American Society of Microbiology
British Society of Parasitology

American Society of Microbiology
American Society of Clinical Pathologists

Iranian Genetic Society
Iranian Biotechnology Society
Iranian NanoBiotechnology Forum
Iranian Medical Entomology Society