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The Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization together with WHO regional and country offices: develops policies, strategies and standards; supports the efforts of WHO Member States; measures progress towards TB targets and assesses national programme performance, financing and impact; promotes research; and facilitates partnerships, advocacy and communication.
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Stop TB Partnership Coordinating Board

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Board Members

The following persons are Coordinating Board members. Details on the composition of the Board can be found here.

Stop TB Working Groups Chairpersons

  • DOTS Expansion Working Group (DEWG)
    Dr Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya (Board Vice Chair)
    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. Catherine (Kitty) Lambregts -van Weezenbeek.
    KNCV Tuberculosis
    the Netherlands

  • Working Group on New TB Vaccines
    Mr Michel Greco
    Parteurop
    France

  • Working Group on New TB Diagnostics
    Dr Giorgio Roscigno
    Chief Executive Officer
    Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)
    Switzerland

  • Working Group on New TB Drugs
    To be announced


  • Working Group on Advocacy, Communication & Social Mobilization
    Dr Paul John Sommerfeld
    Chair
    TB Alert
    United Kingdom

Regional Representatives

  • African Region
    To be announced


  • American Region
    Dr Gerson Oliveira Penna
    Secretary of Health Surveillance
    Ministry of Health
    Brazil

  • Eastern Mediterranean Region
    Dr Faizullah Kakar
    Deputy Minister of Public Health
    (Policy Planning and Preventive Medicine)
    Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan
    Afghanistan

  • European Region
    Dr Martien Borgdorff
    Executive Director
    Royal Netherlands Tuberculosis Association (KNCV)
    The Netherlands

  • South East Asia Region
    Dr Deepak Gupta
    Additional Secretary
    Ministry of Health and Welfare
    India

  • Western Pacific Region
    Dr Nobukatsu Ishikawa
    Director, Research Institute of TB (RIT)
    Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association
    Japan

High-TB-burden Countries

  • China
    Dr Xiao Donglou
    Deputy Director
    Department of Disease Control and Prevention
    Ministry of Health
    China

  • South Africa
    Mr Thamsanqa Mseleku
    Director-General
    Department of Health
    South Africa

  • Indonesia
    Mrs Dr Siti Fadila Supari, SpPJ.PD
    Minister of Health
    Ministry of Health
    Indonesia

  • Tanzania
    Professor David H. Mwakyusa
    Minister for Health and Social Welfare
    Minitry of Health and Social Welfare
    Tanzania

Multi-Lateral Organizations

  • World Health Organization
    Dr Mario Raviglione
    Director, STOP TB
    World Health Organization
    Switzerland

  • World Bank
    Mr Julian Schweitzer
    Director of Health, Nutition and Population
    Human Development Network
    The World Bank
    United States of America

  • UNAIDS
    Dr Catherine Hankins, MD MSc FR CPO
    Chief Scientific Adviser to UNAIDS and
    Associate Director, Social Mobilization to Information Department
    United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
    Switzerland

  • GFATM
    Dr Stefano Lazzari
    Senior Health Advisor a.i.
    The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
    Switzerland

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 Nils Billo
    Executive Director
    International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union)
    France

  • NGO
    To be announced

Financial Donors

  • USAID
    Dr Irene Koek (Board Chair)
    Chief, Infectious Diseases Division
    US Agency for International Development (USAID)
    United States of America

  • CIDA
    Dr Ernest R. Loevinsohn (Chair Emeritus)
    Director General, Food Aid Centre & Multilateral Policy
    Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)
    Canada

  • Japan
    Dr Takashi Toguchi
    Director, Assistant Minister for Technical Affairs
    Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare
    Japan

  • The Netherlands
    Dr Marja Esveld
    Senior Policy Advisor
    Health, Gender and Civil Society Department (DSI/SB)
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    The Netherlands

  • Italy
    Dr Guglielmo RIVA
    Health Advisor
    Directorate General for Development Cooperation
    Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    Italy

Foundations

  • B&M Gates Foundation
    Dr Peter M. Small, M.D.
    Senior Program Officer, Tuberculosis
    Global Health Program
    United States of America

Corporate Business Sector

  • bioMérieux
    Dr Jean-Francois de Lavison
    International Affairs and Public Relation
    Vice President
    bioMérieux
    France

Communities affected by TB

  • Mr Pervaiz Tufail
    Director
    National Group of TB People-Pakistan
    Pakistan

  • Mr Ezio Tàvora Santos-Filho
    Consultant Specialist
    TB/HIV Social Mobilization
    Brasil

STAG Chair

  • To be announced