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Coordinating Committee of Scientific Activities (CCSA)

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The CCSA coordinates the development of the scientific programme of the Union World Conference and oversees approval of official statements and other policy-related decisions.

Carrie Tudor, Chair

Dr Carrie Tudor has worked in global health for over 20 years on various global health projects throughout Asia and Africa. She earned a BSN and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and a MPH from Emory University. Following her PhD, she completed a Fogarty Global Health Post-doctoral research fellowship at the KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for TB and HIV (now the African Health Research Institute). Her research interests are focused on the occupational risk factors for TB among healthcare workers, airborne infection prevention and control, and preventing TB and other infections in healthcare workers.

Dr Tudor is the TB Project Director for the International Council of Nurses working to build the capacity of nurses related to TB/MDR-TB and patient-centred care in China, the Russian Federation, and seven sub-Saharan African countries. Prior to joining the International Council of Nurses she was a Senior Research Coordinator at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine based in South Africa. Dr Tudor has served as the Chair of the Stop TB Partnership’s End TB Transmission Initiative (ETTi) working group since 2016 and has served as the Programme Secretary and Chair of The Union’s Nurses and Allied Professionals sub-section from 2014 – 2017. 

CCSA Committee members

Subgroup 1

  • Carrie Tudor, Chair
  • Razia Fatima, TB section Chair
  • Refiloe Masekela, Adult & Child Lung Health section Chair
  • Degu Jerene Dare, HIV section Chair
  • Sonu Goel, Tobacco Control section Chair
  • Richard Anthony, Bacteriology and Immunology sub-section Chair
  • Niesje Jansen, Nurses and Allied Professionals sub-section Chair
  • Frederick Quinn, Zoonotic TB sub-section Chair
  • Kobto Koura, Director, Department of TB
  • Gan Quan, Director, Department of Tobacco Control
  • Ajay Kumar, Director, Department of Research

Subgroup 2

  • Carrie Tudor, Chair
  • Rovina Ruslami, Conference Programme Lead, TB section
  • Bertrand Mbatchou Ngahane, Conference Programme Lead, Adult & Child Lung Health section 
  • Palwasha Khan, Conference Programme Lead, HIV section
  • Pin Pin Zheng, Conference Programme Lead, Tobacco Control section
  • Verma Ajoy Kumar, Conference Programme Lead, TB - Bacteriology & Immunology sub section
  • Fernando Sanches, Conference Programme Lead, Nurses and Allied Professionals sub section
  • Liliana Salvador, Conference Programme Lead, Zoonotic TB sub section
  • Zahedul Islam, Civil Society representative
  • Kobto Ghislain Koura, Institute representative