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Within the Working Group on New Diagnostics nine sub-groups have been created. Each subgroup has two joint co-ordinators who develop work plans and targets for the sub group. There are five subgroups with primary responsibility for advancing technology and the remaining four provide necessary information around specific issues that should guide tool development and implementation. These subgroups will work together to achieve WGND goals and consist of the following:
- Optimizing TB smear microscopy
Co-Chairs:
- Luis Cuevas, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
- Paul Klatser, Royal Tropical Institute, Netherlands
- Culture-based diagnostics for TB
Co-Chairs:
- David Moore, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru
- Nicolas Durier, Family Health International, Thailand
- Nucleic-acid amplification techniques for TB
Co-Chairs:
- Tom Shinnick, CDC, USA
- Leen Rigouts, Institute for Tropical Medicine, Belgium
- Diagnostics for latent TB infection
Co-Chairs:
- Keertan Dheda, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Philip Hill, University of Otago, New Zealand
- Point of care tests for TB
Co-Chairs:
- Ruth McNerney, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Catharina Boehme, FIND, Switzerland
- Evidence synthesis for TB diagnostics
Co-Chairs:
- Rick O'Brien, FIND, Switzerland
- Karen Steingart, University of California, USA
- TB diagnostics and poverty
Co-Chairs:
- Bertie Squire, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
- Gillian Mann, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
- TB diagnostics and HIV
Co-Chairs:
- Colleen Adel Daniels, WHO Stop TB Dept., Switzerland
- Barbara Laughon, NIH, USA
- TB paediatrics
Co-Chairs:
- Anneke Hesseling, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Steve Graham, The Royal Children's Hospital, Australia
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