Chairs & Committees

Co-Chairs

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Dr. Ethel Maciel

Secretary of Health Surveillance and Environmental Health, Ministry of Health,
Brazil

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Dr. David Lewinsohn

Chair, Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Vaccines,
USA

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Organizing Committee

Patrick Agbassi

Global TB Community Advisory Board,
Côte d'Ivoire

Julio Croda

Fundação Oswaldo Cruz | Rede-TB,
Brazil

Mike Frick

Treatment Action Group,
USA

Birgitte Giersing

World Health Organization,
Switzerland

Ann M. Ginsberg

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
USA

Mark Hatherill

University of Cape Town,
South Africa

Ana Paula Junqueira-Kipnis

Federal University of Goiás | Rede-TB
Brazil

Hester Kuipers

IAVI,
Netherlands

Luciana Leite

Instituto Butantan,
Brazil

Helen McShane

University of Oxford,
UK

Rudzani Muloiwa

University of Cape Town | South African NITAG | WHO AFRO RITAG,
South Africa

Lewis Schrager

IAVI,
USA

Ezio Tavora

Rede-TB,
Brazil

Maiko Tonini

Ministry of Health,
Brazil

Gerald Voss

TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative,
Netherlands

Richard G. White

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine,
UK

Jennifer Woolley

Global Forum on TB Vaccines Secretariat,
USA

Carly Young

University of Cape Town |
WGNV Early Career Researcher Network,
South Africa

Track Committees

Engagement Committees

Strategic Advisory Committee

Tiemi Arakawa

National Tuberculosis Program, Ministry of Health,
Brazil

Lucica Ditiu

Stop TB Partnership,
Switzerland

Fernanda Dockhorn

National Tuberculosis Program, Ministry of Health,
Brazil

Jerome Kim

International Vaccine Initiative,
Republic of Korea

Hester Kuipers

IAVI,
Netherlands

Helen Rees

Wits RHI, University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa

Matteo Zignol

World Health Organization,
Switzerland

Planning Committee

Vania Araujo

Rede-TB,
Brazil

Ricardo Alexandre Arcêncio

Rede-TB,
Brazil

Erika Chimara

Rede-TB,
Brazil

Bridgette Connell

IAVI,
Netherlands

Tatiana Estrela

Ministry of Health,
Brazil

Marit Holleman

TuBerculosis Vaccine Initiative,
Netherlands

Shaun Palmer

IAVI,
Netherlands

Maiko Tonini

Ministry of Health,
Brazil

Jennifer Woolley

Global Forum on TB Vaccines Secretariat,
USA