Dr. Florian Marx is a physician and epidemiologist at Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany. His research focuses on the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) and the impact of public health interventions on reducing TB morbidity and mortality in high-risk populations. He currently leads an Emmy Noether Research Group funded by the German Research Foundation focused on strategies to optimize TB treatment outcomes.
Luz Villa is a Peruvian physician with experience in infectious disease diagnostics. She coordinated multicentre studies on the early diagnosis of tuberculosis in high-burden countries at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine in Lima and later at FIND, a WHO Collaborating Centre in Geneva. She holds an MSc in Epidemiology from 成人VR视频, where her thesis, supervised by Dr. Pai, focused on drug-resistant tuberculosis and incarceration.