Eric Goosby, MD
Dr Eric Goosby was appointed the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on Tuberculosis, 2015-2018. As Special Envoy, Dr Goosby worked to raise the profile of the fight against TB and promote the adoption, financing and implementation of the World Health Organization’s global End TB strategy and its international targets for TB prevention, care and control, and focused on establishing the first-ever UN High Level Meeting on TB in 2019. Dr Goosby has dedicated his professional life to tackling global health diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and TB. Between 2009 and 2013, he served in the US State department as the Ambassador-at-Large and the US Global AIDS Coordinator, directing the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery, Diplomacy and Economics, Institute for Global Health Sciences.