Commemorating World TB Day 2020: “IT’S TIME” — It’s time to End the Global TB Epidemic

• Simon Tiberi,
• Giovanni Battista Migliori,
• Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya,
• Tereza Kaesava,
• Seif Salem Al Abri,
• Christian Wejse,
• Delia Goletti,
• Nathan Kapata,
• Giovanni Sotgiu,
• Jamshed Bomanji,
• Jean-Pierre Zellweger,
• Rumina Hasan,
• Muhammad Irfan,
• Imran Ahmed,
• Natalia Pshenichnaya,
• Irina Vasilieva,
• Dorothy Yeboah-Manu,
• Jan-Willem Alffenaar,
• Hannah Yeijin Kim,
• Rosella Centis,
• Daniela Maria Cirillo,
• Riccardo Alagna,
• Lia D’Ambrosio,
• Xiaojing Cui,
• Bin Cao,
• Markus Maeurer,
• Anthony D. Harries,
• Giuseppe Ippolito,
• Mario Raviglione,
• Alimuddin Zumla,
• Eskild Petersen

Affiliations

Simon Tiberi

Blizard Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom; Division of Infection, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom; Corresponding author at: Division of Infection, Royal London Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.

Giovanni Battista Migliori

Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, Tradate, Varese, 21049, Italy

Jeremiah Muhwa Chakaya

Department of Medicine, Therapeutics, Dermatology and Psychiatry, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Tereza Kaesava

Global TB Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Seif Salem Al Abri

Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman

Christian Wejse

Department of Infectious Disease, Aarhus University Hospital and School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Delia Goletti

Translational Research Unit, National Institute for Infectious Diseases “L. Spallanzani” IRCCS, Department of Epidemiology and Preclinical Research, Rome, Italy

Nathan Kapata

UNZA-UCLMS Research and Training Program, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia; Zambia National Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

Giovanni Sotgiu

Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Statistics Unit, Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Jamshed Bomanji

Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCLH NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Jean-Pierre Zellweger

Swiss Lung Association, Bern, Switzerland

Rumina Hasan

Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Irfan

Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan

Imran Ahmed

The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Natalia Pshenichnaya

Rostov State Medical University, Department of Infectious Diseases, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

Irina Vasilieva

National Medical Research Center of Phthisiopulmonology and Infectious Diseases, Moscow, Russia

Dorothy Yeboah-Manu

Department of Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Accra, Ghana

Jan-Willem Alffenaar

Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Hannah Yeijin Kim

Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Rosella Centis

Servizio di Epidemiologia Clinica delle Malattie Respiratorie, Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS, Via Roncaccio 16, Tradate, Varese, 21049, Italy

Daniela Maria Cirillo

Emerging Pathogens Unit, TB Supranational Reference Laboratory, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Riccardo Alagna

Emerging Pathogens Unit, TB Supranational Reference Laboratory, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy

Lia D’Ambrosio

Public Health Consulting Group, Lugano, Switzerland

Xiaojing Cui

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, No 2, Beijing, China

Bin Cao

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases, No 2, Beijing, China

Markus Maeurer

Immunotherapy Programme, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, 1400-038 Lisbon, Portugal; I Med Clinic, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany

Anthony D. Harries

Centre for Operational Research, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France

Giuseppe Ippolito

National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani-IRCCS- Via Portuense, Rome, Italy

Mario Raviglione

University of Milan, Italy, and Global Studies Institute, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Alimuddin Zumla

Department of Infection, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UCL Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Eskild Petersen

Directorate General for Disease Surveillance and Control, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman; Institute for Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark; ESCMID Emerging Infections Task Force, Basel, Switzerland