Organising Team
David Jackson
Director Conferences and Events
Cathriona McCauley, MPH
Deputy Director Conferences and Events
Rhea Lobo
Communications and Engagement Consultant, Conferences and Events
Adriana Hinojosa
Main Programme Producer
Sara Margarida Santos
Programme Assistant
Karen Perea
Programme Assistant
Alex Metcalfe
Head of Communications, The Union
Alison Taylor
Corporate Sponsorship Fundraiser
Dr. Madhava Sai Sivapuram
Manager – Community Connect
Alpha Panda
Business Development Administrator
Joanna Szostakowska-Naidoo
Manager – TBScience
Oksana Saienko
Sales and Registration Co-ordinator
Magdalena Gajewska
Programme Assistant
Niamh
Communications Officer
Conference Scientific Committee (CSC)
Prof. Katharina Kranzer
Clinical microbiologist and epidemiologist
Dr. Kobto Koura
Director, Department of Tuberculosis, The Union
Garima Bhatt
Research Associate, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK
Dr. Julio Croda
Infectious disease physician-scientist
Pranay Sinha
Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Finn McQuaid
Associate Professor and mathematical modeller, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Dr. Joseph Baruch Baluku
Research Scientist, Makerere University Lung Institute and Head of the Division of Pulmonology, Kiruddu National Referral Hospital in Kampala, Uganda
Dr. Sadia Shakoor
Clinician-researcher, collaborative and interdisciplinary research into antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
Dr. Chishala Chabala
Lecturer and Consultant Paediatrician at the University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia
Dr. Simon Tiberi
Global Health Physician at GSK
Zahedul Islam
Director, Treatment, Procurement, and Supply Management Department, Alliance for Public Health in Ukraine
Dr. Jyoti S. Mathad
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York
Daria Podlekareva
Consultant, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Associate Professor in Copenhagen, Denmark
Assoc. Prof. Sarah Bernays
Social Scientist
Prof. Hojoon Sohn
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist
Union Community Advisory Panel (UCAP)
Zahedul Islam
Chair & Europe Representative
Eva Naznin
Asia Pacific Representative
Kinz Ul Eman
Middle East Representative
Priyanka Aiyer
South East Asia Representative
Tariro Kutadza
Africa Representative
Dr. Ajaz Akhtar
Affected Community Representative
Erman Varella
Affected Community Representative
Phumeza Tisile
Affected Community Representative
Prof. Katharina Kranzer
Clinical microbiologist and epidemiologist
Daria Podlekareva
Consultant, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Associate Professor in Copenhagen, Denmark
TBScience - Scientific Committee
Prof. Willem Hanekom, Chair
Executive Director, Africa Health Research Institute, Durban, South Africa
Prof. Elisa Nemes
Immunologist, South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative (SATVI) and Pathology Unit
Prof. Henry Mwandumba
Director of the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW)
Prof. Sarah Fortune
John LaPorte Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Chair at the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Dr. Bruno de Bezerril Andrade
Medical researcher with a focus on clinical research and human immunology
Assoc. Prof. Timothy Walker
Associate Professor and Wellcome Trust Clinical Career Development Fellow, OUCRU Oxford University Clinical Research Unit
Prof. Christian Lienhardt
Infectious & Tropical Diseases specialist and Clinical Epidemiologist
Dr. Kobto Koura
Director, Department of Tuberculosis, The Union
Dr. Bachti Alisjahbana
Infectious disease specialist and head of the infectious research center at Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia
Prof. Katharina Kranzer
Clinical microbiologist and epidemiologist
Daria Podlekareva
Consultant, Infectious Diseases and Clinical Associate Professor in Copenhagen, Denmark