Dr. Knut Lönnroth Stop TB Department at the World Health Organization, Switzerland

Knut Lönnroth is working in the Stop TB Department of the World Health Organization, Geneva. He received his undergraduate training as a medical doctor at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden and went on to specialise in Social Medicine. He has an MSc in clinical epidemiology from the University of Newcastle, Australia... read moreand a PhD in Public Health from the Nordic School of Public Health, which focused on the role of the private health care sector in the management of priority public health conditions. He has been involved in a wide range of research on tuberculosis control, mainly focusing on health systems issues, TB determinants, TB co-morbidities, and TB case finding.