Who We Are
The SMART4TB Consortium brings together experts in TB tools development, implementation science, capacity strengthening, civil society engagement and policy translation. Led by Johns Hopkins University, consortium members include University of California, San Francisco, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation and Treatment Action Group.
SMART4TB Leadership
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Finance and Contracts Director, SMART4TB
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Director of Clinical Operations, SMART4TB |
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Measurement & Evaluation Advisor, SMART4TB |
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Project Officer, SMART4TB |
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Program Coordinator, SMART4TB |
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Project Manager, SMART4TB |
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Director of Community Engagement, SMART4TB |
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Communications Director, SMART4TB |
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Biostatistician, SMART4TB |
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Deputy Project Director, SMART4TB |
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Capacity Strengthening Manager, SMART4TB |
Governance
SMART4TB’s governance structure includes a Scientific Advisory Board comprised of subject matter experts in all the consortium’s focus areas that meet regularly to advise on the consortium’s research agenda.
Grania Brigden
Senior TB Adviser, Global Fund
Wendy Carr
Branch Chief of the Clinical Research Branch in the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Kenneth Castro
Technical Advisor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Daniella Cirillo
Head of Emerging Bacterial Pathogens Unit at the San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Glenda Gray
CEO South African Medical Research Council
Razel Nikka Hao
Director of the Department of Health Disease Prevention and Control Bureau in the Philippines
Yuliia Kalancha
Executive Director of TB Europe Coalition
Benjamin Phelps
Deputy Division Chief in the Division of Prevention, Care, and Treatment and a Medical Officer at the USAID Office of HIV/AIDS
Suvanand Sahu
Deputy Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership Secretariat
Cherise Scott
Technical Manager, Unitaid
Soumya Swaminathan
Chairperson of MS Swaminathan Foundation, former chief scientist at the World Health Organization
Charles Wells
Head of Therapeutics Development at Gates Medical Research Institute
Matteo Zignol
Coordinator of the TB/HIV and Community Engagement Unit and Team Leader for the Research for TB Elimination team at the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme
The Strategy and Planning Committee helps direct the scientific strategy across the consortium and meets with SMART4TB staff quarterly for cross-consortium idea exchanges.
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Andrea DeLuca Payam Nahid Nilesh Bhatt Robert Bollinger Adithya Cattamanchi Denis Godlevskiy Binh Hoa Achilles Katamba Gopa Kumar Rupali Limaye |
Erica Lessem
Neil Martinson Linsday McKenna Bakyt Myrzaliev Priya Shete Sunil Solomon Carrie Tudor Gustavo Velasquez Jacque Wambui |
Engagement with local, national, regional, and global community partners is integral to SMART4TB. As part of this effort, SMART4TB has recruited three community advisory boards to help shape the research agenda and protocols to ensure alignment with community needs and priorities; support trial sensitization and when available, results dissemination with the broader TB community and other key stakeholders; and drive the translation of SMART4TB research into evidence-based, progressive policy and programming. This will include support for generating community demand for access to the benefits of scientific progress. SMART4TB’s community advisory boards are: Afrocab Treatment Access Partnership (AfroCAB), Asia Pacific Council of AIDS Service Organizations (APCASO) and Eurasian Community for Access to Treatment (ECAT).
SMART4TB will work with five strategically located collaborative platforms hosted by local organizations with strong connections to partners and regional TB prevention and care programs. The partners include the World Alliance for Lung and Intensive Care Medicine in Uganda (WALIMU), Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), YRG Care in India, and the Victory Network in Vietnam.
SMART4TB is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and is implemented under cooperative agreement number 7200AA20CA00005. The consortium is managed by prime recipient, Johns Hopkins University.