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Biographies of the members of the Guideline Development Group for the

WHO TB Ethics Guidelines Revision Meeting

Disclaimer

In 2010, WHO published its “Guidance on ethics of tuberculosis prevention, care and control”. The

document provides guidance to health care workers, policy makers, patients and civil society on

ethical issues related with counselling, consent, testing, health care workers’ rights and obligations,

involuntary isolation and research in TB. While the document has become an important reference

point for informed ethical policy-making and public health practice, new issues surrounding TB and

ethics have emerged and/or gained more attention since its publication. Amongst others, these

issues relate to paediatric TB, TB and migrants, TB and prisoners, rights to health and scientific

progress in TB research, non-voluntary isolation, compassionate use for TB treatment, palliative care,

latent TB infection, and systematic screening of people in whom TB is suspected.

In order to reflect these new developments and challenges, the present meeting brings together

experts from clinical and programmatic management of TB, public Health, and ethics. The goal is to

arrive at an updated guidance that addresses emerging issues and offers operational advice for

dealing with the issues identified.

Contact persons for feedback from the public:

Dr. Ernesto Jaramillo ([email protected])

Dr. Andreas Reis ([email protected])

1. Tammam Aloudat

Name Tammam Aloudat

Affiliation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Switzerland

Current position Deputy Medical Director

Address Rue de Lausanne 78, 1201, Geneva, Switzerland

Tel +41-79-251-8020

Fax

Mail [email protected]

Brief biography

Tammam Aloudat Deputy Medical Director of MSF Switzerland. He is a Syrian medical doctor and

public health expert. He has worked for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

and for MSF in the field and headquarters directly supporting emergency medical assistance in

multiple contexts.

mailto:[email protected]


Tammam has a medical degree from the University of Damascus and a Masters degree in Public

Health in Developing Countries from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has

published multiple works on health and medical interventions in emergencies and conflict including

on epidemic control, natural disasters, non-communicable diseases, and psychosocial support. In

addition to his role in managing the medical department in MSF, he works on issues related to

quality of medical care in emergencies, health information systems, and medical ethics in

emergencies.

2. Farhana Amanullah

Name Farhana Amanullah

Affiliation The Indus Hospital and the Aga Khan University Hospital

Current position Consultant Pediatrician and Director Pediatric TB Program

Address 22 Fountain Apartments, Block 5 Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan

Tel 03009208705


Brief biography

I am an American Board Certified Pediatrician and Pediatric Nephrologist trained at the Children’s

Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston. My involvement in Child TB started in 2007 when I joined

the Indus Hospital, a free tertiary care unit serving an immediate underprivileged population of over 2.5

million. I joined the WHO Child TB core group in 2011, around the same time the Indus Hospital

Pediatric TB Program became the largest private child TB reporting center in the region. I have served

as a Child TB expert and provided Technical Assistance in Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Thailand and

Afghanistan. I have helped conduct a rapid assessment of Pediatric TB in Pakistan with TB Alliance. I

was a reviewer for the WHO child TB guidance 2014. I have helped acquire funding and initiate a mass

child TB screening project in rural Pakistan that has resulted in a 175% increase in TB case detection

since implementation. I recently joined the WHO Global TB Department’s guideline development group

and will be involved in the update of the drug-resistant TB section and the child TB component of the

ethics section. I am working on a project funded by a grant from the Harvard Foundation, in which we

hope to evaluate an enhanced screening and treatment program in Drug resistant TB households in

Karachi, Pakistan.

3. Ron Bayer

Affiliation Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health

Current position Professor, Sociomedical Sciences

Address New York NY 10032

Tel 212-305-1957

Fax 212-342-1986


Brief biography

Ronald Bayer, PhD, focuses his research on issues of social justice and ethical matters related to AIDS,

tuberculosis, illicit drugs, and tobacco. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S.

National Academy of Sciences, and has served on its committees dealing with the social impact of

AIDS, tuberculosis elimination, vaccine safety, smallpox vaccination and the Ryan White Care Act. Dr.

Bayer has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on ethical issues related to public health

surveillance, HIV and tuberculosis. His articles have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine,

the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, the American Journal of Public Health,

and The Milbank Quarterly.

4. Anant Bhan

Name Anant Bhan

Affiliation (Independent) Researcher, Bioethics and Global Health, Bhopal/Pune,

India

Current position Adjunct Visiting Professor, Yenepoya University, India

Address Flat 904, Building A-3, Mirchandani Palms, Rahatani, Pune-411017, India

Tel +91-20-27 30 6110

Fax N.A.


Brief biography

Anant Bhan is trained as a medical doctor with a masters’ degree in bioethics from the University of

Toronto, and is based in Bhopal and Pune, India. He works as a researcher in the fields of Bioethics

and Global Health. He is also Visiting (Adjunct) Professor in the Department of Community Medicine,

Yenepoya Medical College and the Centre for Ethics, Yenepoya University, Mangalore, India. In the

past, he has worked for NGOs and a government public health training institution in India, as well as a

consultant to a project on Ethical, Social and Cultural issues in health biotechnology based at the

University of Toronto. Anant has published extensively in various national and international medical

journals in the field of global/public health and bioethics. He is on the Editorial Board of ‘Public Health

Ethics’ (www.phe.oxfordjournals.org), a quarterly journal of Oxford University Press and also serves on

the International Advisory Board of the Asian Bioethics Review (http://www.asianbioethicsreview.com).

He is also a member of the Ethics Working Group of the US NIH-funded HIV Prevention Trials Network

(http://www.hptn.org/hptnresearchethics.htm). Anant has been a resource person for trainings in global

health, research ethics and public health ethics, and also serves as guest faculty in various educational

institutions in India and abroad. He currently is a member of four ethics committees in India (two of

which he also serves as the chairperson of), and has been as a reviewer for multiple journals,



http://www.phe.oxfordjournals.org/

http://www.asianbioethicsreview.com/

http://www.hptn.org/hptnresearchethics.htm

conference scientific committees and grant competitions. Anant is also a member of the Working Group

set up to revise the 2002 CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research involving

Humans, and the Interim Steering Committee of the Global Forum on Bioethics in Research.

5. Tsira Chakhaia

Name Tsira Chakhaia

Affiliation USAID TB Prevention Project, University Research Co., (URC)

Current possition Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) Advisor

Address 57 Shartava Street, 0178, Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel +995 593 620743

Fax NA


Brief biography

I am Tsira Chakhaia, Public Health Specialist with over 5 years of experience in public health, epidemiology, and clinical research mostly focused on Tuberculosis (TB). I hold higher education diploma from Tbilisi State Medical University, postgraduate diploma from Saint-Petersburg Postgraduate Medical Academy and Master's degree in Public Health from Braun School of Public Health & Community Medicine in the Hebrew University – Hadassah, Jerusalem, Israel. In 2010-2011 I worked as a public health specialist at the National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases (NCTBLD). I have experience in working for various public health projects related to TB including: coordinator of “Global Fund” project implemented by NCTBLD: “Improving Management of Resistant Tuberculosis in Georgia” (2011); Consultant of Treatment Adherence Monitoring of “Global Fund” Project implemented by NCTBLD: “Insuring Universal Access to Quality Treatment and Diagnosis of All forms of Tuberculosis Including Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Georgia” (2011); Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilization (ACSM) Advisor of USAID Georgia Tuberculosis Prevention Project (GTPP) implemented by University Research Co., LLC. Branch in Georgia (from 2011). I have extensive experience working with civil society organizations (CSOs) on different public health projects.

In addition, I am involved in different TB research projects. I was Principal Investigator of the studies: “Contact Investigation for Tuberculosis (TB) in Georgia, Tbilisi (Pilot Project) funded by the International Society for Infectious Diseases”. I am an author of a publication on TB contact investigation and co-author of several publications in international scientific journals. Currently I am clinical trial study coordinator.

Finally, I would like to mention that I have personal experience with TB disease, as I became a TB patient myself. During my treatment period I was trying to answer the questions I had as a Health Care Worker from the perspective of TB patient. After my personal experience, as the former TB patient, I have started to advocate OUR rights. For this purpose, I try to use every opportunity to share my experience to everybody who is involved in TB management, including decision makers, HCWs, representatives of CSOs and TB effected population. One of my biggest public speaking experiences was the speech about the challenges of TB treatment from the patient perspective at the 17th Wolfheze Workshops in Hague, the Netherlands.

In summary, currently I am public health specialist with personal TB experience and this experience helps me a lot while working on TB issues.

6. Stéphanie Dagron

Name Stéphanie Dagron

Affiliation Institute of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Current position SNSF-Professor

Address Treichlerstrasse 10, CH-8032 Zürich

Tel : +41 44 63 415 42

Fax: +41 44 63 415 33

Mail: [email protected]

Brief biography

Stéphanie Dagron is since September 2013 a Swiss National Science Foundation-Professor at the

Institute of Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland. She has been recently offered a position as full-

professor in the field of international and European social security at the Law Faculty of the University

of Geneva starting in 2016. She and her team of three doctoral students mainly works on a large-scale

project in the field of global health law entitled “juridification of global health concerns: implications for

health prevention, treatment and health systems”. Between 2009 and 2013, Stéphanie has been

working as a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute of Biomedical Ethics, University of

Zurich, Switzerland. Her research project on the regulation of medicines was also funded through a

scholarship by the SNSF.

Originally from France, she holds doctoral degrees in law from the Universities of Poitiers (France) and

Saarbrücken (Germany), in topics related to international public law and European law. She studied law

in France (Poitiers), Germany (Marburg and Saarbrücken) and the United Kingdom (Cambridge). While

working on her dissertation she was a Max-Planck-Society fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for

International Law and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg (1999-2003) and a lecturer at the

Universities of Saarbrücken (1997-2000), Strasbourg in France (2001-2003) and Heidleberg (2003-

2009). She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for administrative law at the University

of Heidelberg (2003-2006), the Max-Planck Institute Heidelberg (2006-2007) and the German

University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer (2008-2009).

She has been teaching French and German public law as well as International and European Law.

Lately, she has focused on teaching in the areas of public health law, pharmaceutical regulation,

international health law and human rights. Her main research interests include human rights issues and

global health, pharmaceutical laws, global bioethics, international (health) law and social security,

comparative administrative law and global administrative law. Most recently, Stéphanie Dagron has

been working as a consultant for the WHO regional office for Europe on a project related to Human

rights and legislation applicable to Tuberculosis control in Eastern European Countries.

7. Bernice Elger

Name Elger, Bernice

Affiliation Universities of Geneva and Basel

Current position Associate professor (Geneva), Head of the Institute for Biomedical Ethics

(Basel)

Address CMU, 1 rue Michel Servet, 1211 Genève 4

Tel 022 379 55 89

Fax -


Brief biography

Bernice Elger is associate professor at the Centre for Legal Medicine (CURML) at the University of

Geneva and full professor and head of the Institute for Biomedical Ethics of the University of Basel. She

is member of two Swiss federal commissions, the commission on genetic testing (GUMEK) and the

commission on obligatory health insurance reimbursement (ELGK). After having studied medicine and

theology in Germany, the US, France and Switzerland, she obtained her medical diploma as well as a 6

year university degree in protestant theology in Germany. She also holds a specialty degree in internal

medicine (FMH) and has worked for 15 years as a clinician in prison medicine at the University of

Geneva. Since 1995 she has been teaching ethics and health law at the University of Geneva and,

since 2011, at the University of Basel. In 2004, she obtained a grant for advanced researchers of the

Swiss National Science Foundation for research in the US (University of Pennsylvania Center for

Bioethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Dept. of Clinical Bioethics at the NIH). In 2010, she was

awarded the Swiss “Prix” for research in primary care and in 2005 the Prix Bizot for her work on

biobanks (Habilitation University of Geneva). In 1999 she obtained the “Award of the Medical Faculty”

for her doctorate about medical paternalism and in 1997 the “Prix Arditi en éthique” for her work on

predictive medicine. She has widely published in medical and ethical journals about medical ethics in

prison, genetics, and research ethics concerning prisoners as well as research ethics related to the use

of biobanks and human tissue.

8. Andreas Frewer

Name Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Frewer, M.A., European Master in Bioethics

Affiliation Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Current position Professorship for Medical Ethics

Institutional Review Board, Medical Faculty, Erlangen-Nürnberg University

Managing Director Clinical Ethics Committee University Hospital Erlangen

Address Glueckstraße 10, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany

Tel : + 49 9131 8526430

Fax: + 49 9131 8522852


Brief biography

Prof. Dr. Andreas Frewer, M.A. is Professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

(Germany). He studied medicine, philosophy, and the history of medicine in Munich, Erlangen, Berlin,

Vienna, Oxford, and Jerusalem. He wrote his dissertation on medical ethics and history of medicine at

the Free University of Berlin (scl) and holds a European Master in Bioethics from the Universities of

Leuven, Nijmegen, Basel, and Padua (scl). Between 1994 and 1998 he worked as a physician at the

Virchow-Hospital and the Charité of Humboldt University (Berlin) in clinical medicine, nephrology,

oncology and intensive care. Between 1998 and 2002 he was Assistant Professor at the Institute of

Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Goettingen and a member of the Institutional Review

Board. Between 2002 and 2006 he was Professor for Medical Ethics at the Institute for History, Ethics,

and Philosophy of Medicine at Hanover Medical School (MHH), and 2004 Managing Director of the

Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Since 2007 Prof.

Frewer is member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB/REC) and Managing Director of the Clinical

Ethics Committee (CEC) at University Hospital Erlangen (1500 beds). Together with Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.

Bielefeldt (UN SP) Prof. Frewer is chairing the research project “Human Rights in Healthcare” as a

special “Emerging Field Project” (EFI) of excellence.

Among his publications are more than 200 articles and several books on medical ethics, publications on

ethics committees, research ethics, end-of-life-issues, and on the wide spectrum of clinical ethics. Prof.

Frewer is a member of the German "Academy for Ethics in Medicine" (AEM), of international Editorial

Boards of the journals "Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics", and "Medicine, Health Care and

Philosophy". He is editor of the series "Culture of Medicine" (40 vols.), "History and Philosophy of

Medicine" (13 vols.), "Yearbook Ethics in Clinics" (8 vols.), “Human Rights in Medicine” (6 vols.) and

"Clinical Ethics" (5 vols.).

9. Mike Frick

Name Mike Frick

Affiliation Treatment Action Group

Current position Project Officer, TB/HIV

Address 261 5th Ave, Suite 2110, New York, NY, USA, 11217

Tel : +1.212.253.7922

Fax: +1.212.253.7923


Brief biography

Mike Frick is a project officer in TAG’s TB/HIV Project, where he conducts advocacy to support TB research and promote community engagement in TB research. He coordinates the Community Research Advisors Group, the community advisory board to the U.S. CDC’s Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, and leads resource-tracking activities for TAG’s annual Report on Tuberculosis Research Funding Trends. Before joining TAG, Mike worked at Asia Catalyst, where he supported grassroots activists across China conducting human rights documentation and advocacy on the right to health. In 2009, Mike was a Fulbright Fellow at Kunming Medical College. He holds a BA in international studies and Chinese from Kenyon College, and an MSc in global health and population from the Harvard School of Public Health.

10. Michel Gasana

Name Dr Michel GASANA

Affiliation RWANDA BIO MEDICAL CENTER

Current possition National Tuberculosis and Other Respiratory Diseases Division Manager

Address PO Box 2315 KIGALI

Tel + 250 788304628

Mail [email protected] or [email protected]

Brief biography

Dr Michel GASANA, MD, MPH (Health Policy and Organization of Health Services from the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium) brings over 25 years of multidisciplinary experience in Tuberculosis, public health, policy development and health management. He is leading from 2003 to now the National Tuberculosis Programme of Rwanda. .Throughout his career, Dr Michel GASANA has developed a solid understanding of the health sector strengthening system, decentralizing TB management activities at the health facilities level and integrating communities in TB control at the grassroots level.

He has been involved in many operational researches, attended different International conferences around the world and has been guiding Rwanda’s national TB program, based on scientific evidence to become a model of best practice. He initiated and implemented different strategies including TB/HIV integration activities, MDR-TB management activities and the involvement of TB Community Health Workers in the fight against TB countrywide. Dr Michel GASANA is a TB consultant for the WHO/African Region. He is currently a member of the STAG TB (Strategic and Technical advisory Group for TB). He was the President of the Africa Union Against TB and Other Respiratory Disease (The Union 2011-2013).

11. Hyeyoung Lim

Name Hyeyoung Lim

Affiliation The Global Fund

Current possition

Address

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Brief biography

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12. Sundari Mase

Name Sundari Mase

Affiliation US CDC

Current position Medical Team Lead

Address Field Services and Evaluation Branch Division of Tuberculosis Elimination National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Address: 1600 Clifton Rd, Atlanta, GA 30333, United States

Tel 404-639-5336 Fax 404-718-8308


Brief biography

Dr. Sundari Mase joined CDC January, 2008 as the Medical Team Lead for the Field Services and Evaluation Branch in the Division of TB Elimination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her area of expertise is MDR/XDR TB and she provides medical consultation and technical assistance for challenging MDR TB cases, contacts and investigations. Dr. Mase started her career in TB as a Medical Officer with the CA State TB Control Branch after completing medical school and residency at University of CA, San Francisco and working as an internist in private practice for 6 years. While at CA State she started up the state MDR TB consult service. She then became a regional MDR TB consultant for the Francis J. Curry International TB Center. She then served as Deputy Health Officer/TB Controller for Santa Clara County after which she was recruited to CDC. As Medical Team Lead, her duties also include serving as medical consultation liaison to the five CDC-funded Regional Training and Medical Consultation Centers, designing and implementing research studies, writing guidelines and policies, and supervising domestic field medical officer staff.

13. Naranbat Nyamdavaa

Name Naranbat Nyamdavaa

Affiliation Mongolian TB Coulation

Current position President

Address 401, Mongolian TB Coulation, Peace avenue 61/1,

Ulaanbatar 13345, MONGOLIA

Tel 976-99099471


Fax 976-11-456736


Brief biography

Education: 1989-1996, Faculty of General Medicine, Mongolian National Medical University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (MNMU)

1999-2002, Postgraduate Study in Master of Medical Bacteriology, Mongolian National Medical University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (MNMU)

2003-2005, Postgraduate Study in PhD, Health Science University, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (HSU) 2015, Assistant professor, Mongolian National University of Medical Science, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (MNUMS)

Professional career: 1996-2001, Bacteriologist, National Tuberculosis Center, NTC

2001-2006, Vice director, National center for Communicable Diseases, NCCD 2006-2007, TB officer, PCU, Mongolia of the Global fund fight AIDS, TB, Malaria, 2007-2008, Vice director, NCCD

2008-2010, Guest research, TB Reference Laboratory, Institute Medical Veterinary Science, Adelaide, South Australia

Since 2010, President, Mongolian TB Coalition

Publications: More than 100 publications in Mongolian, English, Russian including 10 books

14. Christoph Ostgathe

Name Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Ostgathe

Affiliation: Dep. Palliative Medicine, University Hopsital Erlangen

Current position: Chair, Head of Departement

Address: Krankenhausstrasse 12, 91054 Erlangen, Germany

Tel : 00499131 85 34064

Fax: 00499131 85 34066


Brief biography

Christoph Ostgathe is a physician specialised in Palliative Medicine. Until 2010 he worked as a senior

consultant at the University of Cologne. In 2010, he was appointed as Professor of Palliative Medicine

at the University of Erlangen. He works clinically, teaches students and does research in palliative care.

Here, his core area is health service research with a focus on relatives, tool development and adaption,

as well as ethical issues in end-of-life care. A particular emphasis is on palliative care for patients with a

diagnosis other than cancer and in particular vulnerable situations, for example when infected/colonised

with multi-resistant pathogens.

15. Poonam Dhavan

Name Dr. Poonam DHAVAN

Affiliation International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Current position Migration Health Programme Coordinator

Migration Health Division

Dept. of Migration Management

Address International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, Switzerland

Tel : Office: +41.22.7179546

Mobile: +41.797010971

Fax:


Brief biography

Dr. Poonam Dhavan is the Migration Health Programme Coordinator. Dr. Dhavan is the thematic resource person for the MHD thematic area of Health Promotion and Assistance to Migrants. In this position, she will be responsible for providing technical advice on migration health matters; plan, oversee and evaluate H2 activities; perform liaison and advocacy functions and integrate migration health into other work areas at IOM. Prior to this position, Dr. Dhavan was the Sr. Public Health and Research Specialist at the Migration Health Support Unit of IOM in Manila. Dr. Dhavan is a medical doctor, epidemiologist and global health specialist, trained in India and the United States of America, with over fourteen years’ medical and public health work experience. Before joining IOM, she has worked at the World Health Organization, the University of Texas Health Science Centre and the Public Health Foundation of India.

16. John Porter

Name Professor John DH Porter


Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Current position: Professor of International Health, Faculties of Infectious and Tropical

Diseases and Public Health and Policy, London School of Hygiene and

Tropical Medicine

Address Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT

Tel : 44 0207927 2298

Fax:


Brief biography

Trained in paediatrics in the UK and then in infectious disease epidemiology at the Centers for Disease

Control in the US. His work focusses on infectious disease control, in particular, TB, HIV and leprosy

through a perspective of health systems, policy and ethics. He teaches an ethics and rights course in

the Spring Term at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

17. Lee Reichmann

Name Lee B. Reichman, MD, MPH

Affiliation Rutgers New Jersey Medical School Global TB Institute

Current position Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, Senior Advisor

Address 225 Warren Street, 2nd Floor, East Wing, Newark, New Jersey 07103

Tel 973-972-3270

Fax 973-972-3268


Brief biography

Dr. Lee Reichman is Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. After receiving his medical degree from New York University and his first year of residency at Bellevue Hospital in New York, he served as a Peace Corps physician in Bolivia. He then completed residency and a pulmonary fellowship at Harlem Hospital Center and earned a Masters in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Reichman served as Director, Bureau of Tuberculosis Control and Assistant Commissioner of Health at the New York City Department of Health. Subsequently, he joined the faculty at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now Rutgers), New Jersey Medical School as Director of the Pulmonary Division. He was the Founding Executive Director of the Global Tuberculosis Institute for 21 years and currently continues to share his extensive TB expertise as Senior Advisor to the Institute. Dr. Reichman has published over 200 articles, scientific


reviews and book chapters about TB and has served on several national and international committees, advisory boards, professional organizations and societies including the U.S. Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis, the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), the American Lung Association, American Thoracic Society, and the World Health Organization Stop TB Partnership (Founding Member of The Advocacy and Communication Working Group).

18. Maria Rodriguez

Name Maria de los M Rodriguez de Dominguez

Affiliation Programa de Control de la Tuberculosis - MOH Dominican Republic

Current possition MDR TB National Thecnical Unit coordinator

Address Ministry of Health. Dominican Republic

Tel 1 809 399 741, 1 829 563 6816, 1 809 732 8046

Fax 1 809 541 3422

Mail [email protected] [email protected]

Brief biography

Pulmonologist started working for the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) in 1992 at the local hospital Las Caobas. From 2004-2014 supported the NTP in the programatic management of MDR TB and currently I works as the coordinator of the Technical Unit of MDR in Dominican Republic. Dr. Rodriguez have also participated as a facilitator in several TB DR courses implemented by the Union in the region of The Americas. As international consultant, she is a member of f the rGLC of the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and have been part of several evaluating missions of PMDT.

19. Diego S. Silva

Name Diego S. Silva

Affiliation Simon Fraser University

Current position Assisstant Professor

Address Faculty of Health Sciences

Simon Fraser University

Blusson Hall, Room 11008

8888 University Drive

Burnaby, B.C., Canada

V5A 1S6

Tel 778-782-3464

Fax




Brief biography

Diego joined the FHS in September 2015 as Assistant Professor specializing in bioethics and public health ethics. He completed his PhD, which focused on ethical and political issues in the prevention and treatment of tuberculosis (TB) in persons with severe and persistent mental illnesses, at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto in 2013. Prior to his appointment at SFU, Diego was a Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health (CRICH) at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto where he worked with the Gates Foundation on various global health projects. Most recently, he was part of a project that analyzed the ethics and governance issues related to translational research as a Research Fellow at the Hannover Medical School in Hannover, Germany. Diego’s main research project currently focuses on ethical and political challenges related to new TB technologies.

20. Verina Wild

Name Dr. Verina Wild

Affiliation LMU Munich and University of Zurich

Current position Postdoctoral researcher

Address Dr. Verina Wild

Lehrstuhl Philosophie IV

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

D - 80539 München

Tel 0049 17671801590

Fax


Brief biography

Dr. Verina Wild is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Philosophy at the Ludwig-Maximilians-

University of Munich, and Senior Teaching and Research Associate at the Institute for Biomedical

Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich. Her current research interests are social and

global justice in health / public health ethics, health of migrants and ethics of health incentive programs.

Verina is currently supervising four PhD students who are working in the area of migration, health and

ethics.

In Aug-Oct 2011 she was visiting research fellow at the "Center for the History and Ethics of Public

Health" of the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University New York. From 2008 – 2010

she was member the steering group for the Clinical Ethics Committee at the University Hospital

Zurich and has intermittently served as Clinical Ethicist. For her work on drug research on pregnant

women she received the German Young Scholars Award in Medical Ethics. She was DAAD / Carlo

Schmid stipendiary at the Ethics and Health Unit, World Health Organization Geneva. Before

becoming a scholar in bioethics she worked as a physician in internal medicine in Berlin, Germany

and gathered work experience in Tansania, Scotland, Spain, Argentina.

21. Justin Wong

Name Dr. Justin Wong

Affiliation MoH Brunei

Current position

Address

Tel

Fax

Mail

Brief biography

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