The 17th meeting of the STAG-TB took place at WHO Headquarters on 12-14 June, 2017. The meeting was organized by the WHO Global TB Programme (GTB), which provides the Secretariat for the advisory body.
Dr Ibrahim Abubakar, Director of the Institute for Global Health of the University College London, was appointed by the WHO Director-General as STAG-TB Chair for the period of 2016-2018. He worked with the WHO Secretariat in the development of the 2017 meeting agenda. For 2017, there were twenty two members of STAG-TB with strong gender, geographical and expertise balance. Twenty-one members, including the Chair, were in attendance for the meeting.
The STAG-TB members were joined by over 175 technical, academic and civil society partners and WHO staff from Headquarters, all six Regional Offices and many WHO Country Offices.