About the Authors

Christian Lienhardt

lienhardtc@who.int

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Knut Lönnroth

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Dick Menzies

Affiliation Montreal Chest Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Manica Balasegaram

Affiliation Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Jeremiah Chakaya

Affiliation Centre for Respiratory Diseases Research, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Nairobi, Kenya

Frank Cobelens

Affiliation Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jennifer Cohn

Affiliation Access Campaign, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Claudia M. Denkinger

Affiliation FIND Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland

Thomas G. Evans

Affiliation Aeras, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Gunilla Källenius

Affiliation Department of Clinical Science and Education, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Gilla Kaplan

Affiliation Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ajay M. V. Kumar

Affiliation International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, South-East Asia Regional Office, New Delhi, India

Line Matthiessen

Affiliation DG Research & Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Charles S. Mgone

Affiliation The European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP), The Hague, The Netherlands

Valerie Mizrahi

Affiliation Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Ya-diul Mukadi

Affiliation USAID, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Viet Nhung Nguyen

Affiliation National TB Programme, National Lung Hospital, Hanoi, Viet Nam

Anders Nordström

Affiliation Ambassador for Global Health, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Stockholm, Sweden

Christine F. Sizemore

Affiliation Tuberculosis, Leprosy and other Mycobacterial Diseases Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Melvin Spigelman

Affiliation Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, New York, New York, United States of America

S. Bertel Squire

Affiliation Centre for Applied Health Research & Delivery, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Soumya Swaminathan

Affiliation National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT), Indian Council of Medical Research, Chennai, India

Paul D. Van Helden

Affiliation DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, MRC Centre for TB Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg, South Africa

Alimuddin Zumla

Affiliation Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London Medical School, London, United Kingdom

Karin Weyer

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Diana Weil

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Mario Raviglione

Affiliation World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

CMD is employed by FIND, a nonprofit organization that collaborates with industry partners for the development, evaluation and demonstration of new diagnostic tests for poverty-related diseases. GKäl is co-founder of TBDiadirect AB, a start-up company aiming at developing the Uri-TB-direct diagnostic TB test. YM is working for USAID and has just received a donation of bedaquiline worth 30 million USD from Janssen. USAID is also funding several researches including clinical trials of short regimens for the treatment of MDR-TB, phase IIb clinical trials of novel TB drugs. SBS leads a multi-disciplinary research group with a focus on applied health research which generates knowledge for action in promoting equity in access to TB services. PDVH receives grants from the South African Medical Research Council and National Research Foundation to do unrestricted research on TB. In addition, PDVH received travel assistance for attendance at the European Society for Clinical Microbiology meeting in Copenhagen in 2015 to give a talk on his work. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of the World Health Organization (WHO) or of the European Commission.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: CL KL DM MR. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: CL KL DM MB JCh FC JCo CMD TGE GKäl GKap AMVK LM CSM VM YM AN CFS MS SBS SS PDVH VNN AZ KW DW MR. Agree with the manuscript’s results and conclusions: CL KL DM MB JCh FC JCo CMD TGE GKäl GKap AMVK LM CSM VM YM AN CFS MS SBS SS PVDH VNN AZ KW DW MR. All authors have read, and confirm that they meet, ICMJE criteria for authorship.