Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (EIS 2019)

The mission of the Division of TB Elimination is to provide leadership in preventing, controlling, and eventually eliminating TB from the United States, in collaboration with partners at the community, state, and international levels.

Key activities:

• Monitoring progress toward TB elimination through national TB surveillance
• Strengthening the capacity of health departments and other partners to prevent, control, and eventually eliminate TB through improved communications, information dissemination, education, and training
• Using contact investigations to prevent TB among persons at highest risk, including those with HIV infection
• Building outbreak detection and response capability
• Investigating improved treatment regimens
• Providing technical assistance, including programmatic support, research, and the identification, treatment, and management of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB, extensively drug-resistant (XDR) TB, and TB among the most vulnerable populations (e.g., children, correctional populations, people experiencing homelessness)

Philip LoBue, MD

Director

Kathryn Koski, MSEd, MPH

Deputy Director

Carla Winston, PhD, MA

Associate Director for Science

Lori Armstrong, PhD

(EIS 1993)

Sandy Althomsons, MA, MHS

Maryam Haddad, MSN, MPH, FNP

(EIS 2001)

J. Steve Kammerer, MBA

Adam Langer DVM, MPH

(EIS 2006)

Roque Miramontes, PA-C, MPH

(EIS 2006)

Sapna Bamrah Morris, MD, MBA

(EIS 2006)

Thomas Navin, MD

(EIS 1982)

Ben Silk, PhD

(EIS 2008)

Kristine Schmit, MD, MPH

(EIS 2015)

Julie Self, PhD, MPH

(EIS 2015)

Rebekah Stewart, MSN, MPH, APRN

(EIS 2015)

Jonathan Wortham, MD

(EIS 2011)

Amish Talwar, MD, MPH

(EIS 2018)

Billy Walker, DVM, PhD

(EIS 2016)

Tracy Ayers, PhD

(EIS 2016)