Addressing TB in Detention Facilities: The TB REACH Experience

ICPA Healthcare Network Webinar: Prison Health is Public Health: A Critical Conversation: Addressing TB in Detention Facilities: The TB REACH Experience by Dr Jacob Creswell.

Author

Dr. Jacob Cresswell

Program Director Innovations and Grants, TB REACH, Switzerland

Dr. Jacob Creswell is Head of Innovations & Grants at the Stop TB Partnership in Geneva. He previously worked at WHO and started his career at US CDC on TB and HIV more than 20 years ago. Currently, he coordinates Stop TB REACH initiative which is focused on improving programmatic aspects of tuberculosis case detection and treatment outcomes. TB REACH has provided more than USD 180 million to partners in 56 countries. Jacob also leads Stop TB’s work in the Unitaid-funded START4ALL initiative aiming to deliver novel point of care diagnostics in seven countries and manages diagnostic evaluation trials and the digital technology hub work at Stop TB. He serves as a global expert on different aspects of improving tuberculosis detection including private sector engagement and active case finding. Jacob is currently working on the evaluation of new diagnostic and screening tools for TB including artificial intelligence and how they can fit into more efficient and effective diagnostic algorithms. Jacob has more than 100 scientific publications and his work has supported the development of several WHO Guidelines on TB including TB screening, private sector engagement TB in children, and artificial intelligence for chest X-ray.

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