World TB Day 2018 - WHO Global TB Programme event

To commemorate World TB Day 2018 the WHO Global TB Programme organized a special interactive event at WHO Headquarters in Geneva.
The theme for 2018 is: “Wanted: Leaders for a TB-free world”. It focuses on building commitment to end TB, not only at the political level with Heads of State and Ministers of Health, but at all levels from Mayors, Governors, parliamentarians and community leaders, to people affected with TB, civil society advocates, health workers, doctors or nurses, NGOs and other partners. All can be leaders in their own area/terrain.

Moderator: Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of the Global TB Programme, WHO
Speakers:
- Dr Soumya Swaminathan, Deputy Director-General Programmes, WHO
- Dr Ren Minghui, Assistant Director-General, Communicable Diseases, WHO
- Dr Naoko Yamamoto, Assistant Director-General for UHC and Health Systems Cluster, WHO
- Dr Svetlana Akselrod, ADG Non Communicable Diseases, HIV Department, WHO
- Ms Jacqueline Weekers, Director of IOM’s Migration Health Division
- Dr Emanuele Capobianco, IFRC Director of Health and Care
- Dr Jacob Creswell, Team Leader, Stop TB Partnership
- Dr Daniel Low-Beer, Coordinator, Strategic Information and Planning, HIV Department, WHO