Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (EIS 2021)
The mission of the Division of Tuberculosis Elimination (DTBE) is to provide leadership in preventing, controlling, and eventually eliminating tuberculosis (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)
DTBE Leadership and EIS Officers

Director

Deputy Director

Associate Director for Science

(EIS 2006)
Chief, Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Outbreak Investigations Branch


(EIS 2016)

(EIS 2014)

(EIS 1983)
Chief, Field Services Branch


(EIS 2020)

(EIS 2001)



(EIS 1995)



(EIS 2006)
Chief, Data Management, Statistics, and Evaluation Branch

(EIS 2006)


(EIS 2019)

(Secondary Supervisor)
(EIS 2015)

(EIS 2015)

(Secondary Supervisor)

(EIS 1978)
Chief, Clinical Research Branch

(EIS 2016)

(Primary Supervisor)
(EIS 2011)