Members of the Board
The following persons are Coordinating Board members. Details on the composition of the Board can be found here.
Interim Chair:
- Dr Amy Bloom, US Agency for International Development (USAID)
Stop TB Working Groups Chairpersons
- DOTS Expansion Working Group (DEWG)
Dr Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya
Technical Expert, National Leprosy and TB Programme
Ministry of Health
Kenya - TB/HIV Working Group
Dr Diane V. Havlir
Professor of Medicine and Chief of the HIV/AIDS Division and Positive Health Program
University of California
United States of America - Working Group on MDR-TB
Dr Aamir Khan
Director
MDR-TB Control Program
The Indus Hospital
Pakistan - Working Group on New TB Vaccines
Mr Michel Greco
Parteurop
France - Working Group on New TB Diagnostics
Dr Philippe Jacon (Co-Chair)
Chief Executive Officer
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
Switzerland
and
Dr. Daniela Maria Cirillo (Co-Chair) - Working Group on New TB Drugs
Dr. Mel Spigelman (Co-Chair)
Global Alliance for TB Drug Development
United States of America - Global Laboratory Initiative Working Group
Dr Thomas M Shinnick
Associate Director for Global Laboratory Activities, Division of TB Elimination
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
United States of America
Regional Representatives
- African Region
Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng
Lesotho - American Region
Dr Jarbas Barbosa da Silva Jr.
Secretário de Vigilância em Saúde
Ministério da Saúde
Brazil - Eastern Mediterranean Region
Dr Zuhair Hallaj
Syrian Arab Republic - European Region
Dr Tonka Varleva
Director
Prevention and Control of HIV/AIDS & TB Directorate
Ministry of Health
Bulgaria - South East Asia Region
To be announced - Western Pacific Region
Dr Nobukatsu Ishikawa
Director, Research Institute of TB (RIT)
Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Japan
High-TB-burden Countries
- China
Dr Hao Yang
Deputy Director
Department of Disease Control and Prevention
Ministry of Health
China - South Africa
Dr Aaron Motsoaledi
Minister of Health
Ministry of Health
South Africa - Swaziland
Swaziland
Mr Benedict Xaba
Minister of Health
Ministry of Health
Swaziland
Multi-Lateral Organizations
- World Health Organization
Dr Mario Raviglione
Director, STOP TB
World Health Organization
Switzerland - World Bank
Dr Montserrat Meiro-Lorenzo
Senior Public Health specialist
Health, Nutrition and Population
Human Development Department
United States of America - UNAIDS
Dr. Paul De Lay
Deputy Executive Director
United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Switzerland - GFATM
To be announced
NGO’s/Technical Agencies
- CDC
Dr Kenneth Castro
Director Division of TB Elimination
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
United States of America - The Union
Dr Nevin Wilson
Regional Director of the South East Asia Office
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
France - KNCV
Dr Peter Gondrie, MD, MPH
Executive Director
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation The Netherlands
and
Operation ASHA
Mr Sandeep Ahuja
Chief Executive Officer
Operation ASHA
India
Financial Donors
- USAID
Ms Cheri Vincent
US Agency for International Development (USAID) - CIDA
Ms Sara Nicholls
Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
Canada - Japan
Dr Masato Mugitani
Assistant Minister for Global Health
Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare
Japan - The Netherlands
Dr Ger Steenbergen
Senior Health Advisor and Thematic Expert
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Netherlands
Foundations
- B&M Gates Foundation
Dr Michael Kimerling, M.D.
Senior Program Officer, Tuberculosis
Gates Foundation
Global Health Program
United States of America
Corporate Business Sector
- Heineken International Health Affairs
Herbert Schilthuis, M.D.
Medical Adviser
Heineken International Health Affairs
The Netherlands
Communities affected by TB
- Ms. Carol Nawina Nyirenda
TB/HIV Activist
Zambia - Blessina Amulya Kumar (Board Vice Chair)
Public Health Consultant
New Delhi, India
STAG Chair
- Dr Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya
Technical Expert, National Leprosy and TB Programme
Ministry of Health
Kenya




