The Conference Scientific Committee coordinates the development of the scientific programme of The Union World Conference on Lung Health.
Professor Katharina Kranzer is a clinical microbiologist and epidemiologist. Katharina is currently based in Zimbabwe, a high TB/HIV and MDR-TB burden country, where she leads several TB focused studies on diagnostics, transmission, comorbidities, rehabilitation and social protection. She has a keen interest in capacity building both with regards to laboratory and research capacity.
Katharina leads two large fellowship programs across six African countries funded by the Wellcome Trust and EDCTP focused on PhDs and postdocs. From 2015-2018, she directed the National and Supranational TB Reference Laboratory (SRL) in Germany. In her capacity as SRL Director she supported training, quality control and drug resistance surveys in several Central Asian and African countries.
Conference Scientific Committee members
- Katharina Kranzer, Chair
- Simon Tiberi, Conference Programme Lead, TB section
- Chishala Chabala, Conference Programme Lead, Adult & Child Lung Health section
- Jyoti Mathad, Conference Programme Lead, HIV section
- Garima Bhatt, Conference Programme Lead, Tobacco Control section
- Zahedul Islam, Civil Society representative
- Kobto Ghislain Koura, Union Director, Department of TB