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.

GLI Core Group Governance and Operating Procedures
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GLI Core Group members

Member Affiliation Constituency

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

Andrea Cabibbe

Research Associate
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milano, Italy

Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening, Supranational Reference Laboratory.

Roger Calderón Espinoza

Laboratory Director
Partners in Health
Lima, Peru

Civil society organisations

Fernanda Dockhorn Costa

General Coordination of Surveillance of Respiratory Transmission Diseases of Chronic Conditions
Brasilia, Brazil

High burden countries;
National TB programmes

Alex Durena

TB Diagnostics Technical Advisor
United States Agency for International Development
Washington, United States

TB Diagnostics Technical Advisor

Christopher Gilpin

Global Laboratory Coordinator
Migration Health Division
International Organization for Migration
Geneva, Switzerland

Technical partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening

Patricia Hall
Vice-Chairperson

Lead, TB and Clinical Monitoring Team
International Laboratory Branch
Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Atlanta, United States

Technical agencies;
Supranational Reference Laboratories

Kristin Kremer

Senior Laboratory Scientist
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
The Hague, The Netherlands

Technical partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening

Marguerite Massinga Loembé​​​
Chairperson

Senior Science Manager
African Society for Laboratory Medicine - ASLM
Libreville, Gabon

Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening

Sushil Pandey

Chief Scientist

Queensland Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory
Herston, Australia

Technical agencies and implementation partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening, Supranational Reference Laboratory.

 

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.

Léon Sawadogo

Laboratory manager

Centre National de Lutte Antituberculeuse (CNLAT)

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

High burden country; National TB Programme.

Tetsuhiro Sugamoto

Laboratory Scientist
Research Institute of Tuberculosis
JATA(Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Tokyo, Japan

Technical agencies; Supranational Reference Laboratories

Karchung Tshering Chief Laboratory Officer, National TB Reference Laboratory, Thimphu, Bhutan High burden country, National TB Programme

Wayne van Gemert
Observer

Technical Officer
TB Diagnostics Market Strategies
Geneva, Switzerland

Technical partners

 

 

GLI Secretariat

Carl-Michael Nathanson
nathansonc@who.int
Technical Officer
Global TB Programme
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
World Health Organization