Handaa Enkh-Amgalan is an author, speaker, and TB advocate. In 2021, she published Stigmatized: A Mongolian Girl's Journey from Stigma & Illness to Empowerment to raise awareness about TB’s human impact. In 2023, she delivered the opening speech at the UN General Assembly’s TB meeting, influencing global policy. She serves on the WHO Civil Society Task Force on TB and works in the humanitarian sector, specializing in refugee empowerment.

Vidya Krishnan, author of The Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History, is an investigative journalist based in India, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2021. She writes for Caravan magazine, The New York Times, and The Atlantic.

Dr. Melino Ndayizigiye, MD, MMSc, is the executive director of PIH Lesotho. He advises the WHO Foundation and supports PIH and Lesotho’s Health Ministry through the National Oxygen Task Force, TB, HIV, and health system strengthening. He also contributes to the Global Oxygen Alliance. Dr. Melino earned his medical degree from the University of Burundi and an MMSc from Harvard.

Dr. Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, is the Inaugural Chair, Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health. He was previously Director of the McGill International TB Centre. He is Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.