Since its formation in 2008, the Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) has provided a focus for TB within the framework of a multi-faceted, integrated approach to laboratory capacity strengthening through a network of international partners.
Organizationally, GLI is one of the seven Working Groups of the Stop TB Partnership. Functionally, it serves as an independent, technical expert advisory group to WHO, the Stop TB Partnership, development and funding agencies, and countries. Structurally, the GLI consists of individuals with expertise in multiple disciplines, representing constituencies of stakeholders and/or institutions involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening.
The GLI core group has representation from key constituencies including national and supranational reference laboratories, high TB and MDR-TB burden country programmes, technical partners, donors and civil society. The WHO Global TB Programme provides the GLI secretariat.
Download| Member | Affiliation | Constituency |
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Henry Byabajungu |
Technical Supervisor, Supranational Reference Laboratory Kampala, Uganda |
Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening, Supranational Reference Laboratory |
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Andrea Cabibbe |
Research Associate |
Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening, Supranational Reference Laboratory. |
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Roger Calderón Espinoza |
Laboratory Director |
Civil society organisations |
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Fernanda Dockhorn Costa |
General Coordination of Surveillance of Respiratory Transmission Diseases of Chronic Conditions |
High burden countries; |
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Alex Durena |
TB Diagnostics Technical Advisor |
TB Diagnostics Technical Advisor |
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Christopher Gilpin |
Global Laboratory Coordinator |
Technical partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening |
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Patricia Hall |
Lead, TB and Clinical Monitoring Team |
Technical agencies; |
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Kristin Kremer |
Senior Laboratory Scientist |
Technical partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening |
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Marguerite Massinga Loembé |
Senior Science Manager |
Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening |
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Sushil Pandey |
Chief Scientist Queensland Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory |
Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening, Supranational Reference Laboratory.
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Leen Rigouts |
Senior Scientific Expert Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium |
Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening, Supranational Reference Laboratory. |
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Léon Sawadogo |
Laboratory manager Centre National de Lutte Antituberculeuse (CNLAT) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso |
High burden country; National TB Programme. |
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Tetsuhiro Sugamoto |
Laboratory Scientist |
Technical agencies; Supranational Reference Laboratories |
| Karchung Tshering | Chief Laboratory Officer, National TB Reference Laboratory, Thimphu, Bhutan | High burden country, National TB Programme |
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Wayne van Gemert |
Technical Officer |
Technical partners |
| Carl-Michael Nathanson nathansonc@who.int |
Technical Officer Global TB Programme World Health Organization Geneva, Switzerland |
World Health Organization |