About Us
Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2002, CREATE is a consortium of leading experts in TB and HIV who design novel public health interventions to reduce the burden of HIV-related TB at the population level.
The Consortium is led by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research, in Maryland, U.S.A., and includes the following Partners:
- Aurum Institute for Health Research - Johannesburg, South Africa
- Desmond Tutu Centre at Stellenbosch University - Tygerberg, South Africa
- Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - London, England
- The Zambart Project - Lusaka, Zambia
- Stop TB Partnership, WHO
CREATE also relies on the Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB), which is an independent group of outside experts who review CREATE projects annually.
Members:
- Philip C. Hopewell - University of California San Francisco, USA
- Francisco I. Pinkusfeld M. Bastos - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
- Andrew Nunn - Medical Research Council: Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK
- Dr. Karin Weyer - World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
CREATE Executive Committee:
- Richard E. Chaisson - CREATE Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research, USA
- Betina Durovni - THRio Principal Investigator - Transmissible Diseases Department at Secretariat of Health Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Gavin J. Churchyard - Thibela TB Principal Investigator, Aurum Institute of Health Research, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Peter Godfrey-Faussett - ZAMSTAR Principal Investigator, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Elizabeth Corbett - Clinical Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
- Lawrence H. Moulton - Biostatistics Core , Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
- Paul Nunn - Policy and Advocacy Core, World Health Organization, Switzerland
- Peter Small (ex-officio) - Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA
