Chairs and Committees
Global Forum Co-Chairs
- Danilo Casimiro, former Chief Scientific Officer, Aeras
- Nick Drager, TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative
- David Lewinsohn, Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Vaccines
- Soumya Swaminathan, former Secretary, Department of Health Research and former Director-General, Indian Council of Medical Research
Organizing Committee
- Nisheeth Agarwal, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (India)
- Krishnamohan Atmakuri, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (India)
- Sharon Chan, Aeras (China)
- Ann Ginsberg, Aeras (USA)
- Willem Hanekom, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (USA)
- Mark Hatherill, South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- Blessina Kumar, Global Coalition of TB Activists (India)
- David Lewinsohn, Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New Vaccines (USA)
- Jyoti Logani, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology (India)
- Manjula Singh, Indian Council of Medical Research (India)
- Ramandeep Singh, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute (India)
- Frank Verreck, TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative (Netherlands)
- Jennifer Woolley, Global Forum Project Director (USA)
India Advisory Committee
- R.R. Gangakhedkar, Indian Council of Medical Research
- Sarala Balachandran, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- K.N. Balaji, Indian Institute of Science
- T.S. Balganesh, GangaGen Biotechnologies Private Ltd
- Rohan Dhiman, National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, Odisha
- Rajesh Gokhale, National Institute of Immunology
- Randeep Guleria, All India Institute of Medical Science
- Suresh Jadhav, Serum Institute of India
- Manjul Joshipura, Cadila Pharmaceuticals
- Dhiraj Kumar, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
- Jyoti Logani, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Shekhar Mande, National Center for Cell Science
- Amit Misra, Central Drug Research Institute
- Anant Mohan, All India Institute of Medical Science
- Vinay K. Nandicoori, National Institute of Immunology
- Amit Kumar Pandey, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
- Kanury Rao, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
- Alka Sharmar, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Pawan Sharma, Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Manjula Singh, Indian Council of Medical Research
- Rupak Singla, National Institute of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
- Anil Tyagi, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
- Jaya S. Tyagi, All India Institute of Medical Sciences
- Vijaya Lakshmi Valluri, Bhagawan Mahavir Medical Research Centre
International Advisory Panel
- Peter Andersen, Statens Serum Institut (Denmark)
- Lijun Bi, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- Barry Bloom, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (USA)
- Gavin Churchyard, The Aurum Institute (South Africa)
- Keertan Dheda, University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital, (South Africa)
- Lucica Ditiu, Stop TB Partnership (Switzerland)
- Katrin Eichelberg, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (USA)
- Helen Fletcher, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK)
- JoAnne Flynn, University of Pittsburgh (USA)
- Glenda Gray, South African Medical Research Council (South Africa)
- Sanjay Gurunathan, Sanofi Pasteur (USA)
- Stefan H.E. Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Germany)
- Luciana Leite, Instituto Butantan (Brazil)
- Christian Lienhardt, Global TB Programme, World Health Organization (Switzerland)
- Souleymane Mboup, Institut de Recherche en Santé, de Surveillance Epidemiologique et de Formations (Senegal)
- Helen McShane, University of Oxford (UK)
- Norazmi Mohd Nor, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)
- Ole Olesen, European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (Netherlands)
- Tom Ottenhoff, Leiden University Medical Centre (Netherlands)
- Johan Vekemans, Initiative for Vaccine Research, World Health Organization (Switzerland)