Eric Goosby

Daru Hospital interim TB ward constructed in 2012 (AusAID/DFAT/Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Australia’s role in the global fight against TB: an interview with Eric Goosby

July 13, 2017

by Camilla Burkot, Eric Goosby

Eric Goosby

In January 2015, Dr Eric Goosby was appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis (TB). As Special Envoy, Dr Goosby works to raise the profile of the fight against TB and promote the adoption, financing and implementation of the WHO's global End TB Strategy and its international targets for tuberculosis prevention, care and control. Dr Goosby himself contracted latent TB while working as a young doctor in San Francisco.

Dr Goosby has dedicated his professional life to tackling global health diseases, particularly HIV/AIDS and TB. Dr Goosby's HIV/AIDS work runs the gamut from treating patients to directing the United States' largest foreign assistance program - the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). After serving four years in the US State Department as Ambassador-at-Large and US Global AIDS Coordinator, Dr Goosby returned to the University of California, San Francisco where he is Professor of Medicine and Director, Global Health Delivery and Diplomacy, Global Health Sciences.