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Affiliations

FIND

TDR

Royal Tropical Institute

CDC

Médicin Sans Frontières

Merieux Alliance

The International Union of TB and Lung Diseases

McGill University

World Health Organization

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Institute of Tropical Medicine

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

The Royal Children's Hospital

Stellenbosch University

National Institutes of Health

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The Core Group provides leadership and sets the strategic direction for the work of the New Diagnostics Working Group. The Core Group is designed to facilitate and accelerate decision-making, and to act as a catalyst to effective implementation of the Global Plan to Stop TB. The Core Group is representative of the broad constituencies concerned with the development and implementation of new TB diagnostics and consists of the following members:

AcademiaArend Kolk, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Diagnostic developerMark Perkins, FIND, Geneva, Switzerland
Diagnostic manufacturerJean-Francois de Lavison, EDMA, Belgium
Nongovernmental organizationFrancis Varaine, MSF, Paris, France
Patient communitySavita Luka, New Delhi, India
Mayowa Joel, Lagos, Nigeria
WHO Stop TB PartnershipChristian Lienhardt, Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland
The UnionAnne Detjen, TREAT TB team, New York, USA
Global Laboratory InitiativeJohn Ridderhof, CDC, Atlanta, USA
National TB program managerCharles Sandy, NTP, Zimbabwe