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.

Marguerite Massinga Loembé​​​

Senior Science Manager
Independent Consultant - Health systems strengthening
Libreville, Gabon

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

Patricia Hall-Eidson

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

Constituency: Technical agencies;
Supranational Reference Laboratories

Henry Byabajungu

Technical Supervisor, 
Supranational Reference Laboratory Kampala
National TB Reference Laboratory
Kampala, Uganda                                  

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

 

Andrea Cabibbe

Research Associate

Supranational Reference Laboratory Milan
San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milano, Italy

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

Valerie Flore Dokeng Donfack

Head of Mycobacteriology Unit, 
Centre Pasteur du Cameroun (CPC)                                                                                                            

Yaounde, Cameroon

Constituency: High burden country, National TB Programme

 

Alex Durena

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

Constituency: TB Diagnostics Technical Advisor

 

Pamela Hepple

Regional Laboratory Coordinator
IOM Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific
Bangkok, Thailand

 

Constituency: Technical partners involved in global and country-level laboratory

 

Kristin Kremer

Senior Laboratory Scientist
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
The Hague, The Netherlands

Constituency: Technical partners involved in global and country-level laboratory strengthening

 

Sushil Pandey

Chief Scientist, 
Supranational Reference Laboratory Brisbane 
Queensland Mycobacterium Reference Laboratory,
Pathology Queensland, Queensland Health,
Brisbane, Australia

Constituency: 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 Reference Laboratory 

Antwerp, Belgium

Constituency: 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

Constituency: High burden country; National TB Programme

 

Tetsuhiro Sugamoto

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

Constituency: Technical agencies; Supranational Reference Laboratories

 

Karchung Tshering

Chief Laboratory Officer, 
National TB Reference Laboratory,                                                                                                            

Thimphu, Bhutan

Constituency: High burden country, National TB Programme

 

 

Wayne van Gemert

Diagnostics Technical Officer
Stop TB Partnership
Geneva, Switzerland

Constituency: Technical partners

Carl-Michael Nathanson

Technical Officer
Global TB Programme
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland

Constituency: World Health Organization