Marguerite Massinga Loembe

Dr. Marguerite Massinga Loembe is a consultant senior laboratory advisor with Africa CDC in charge of National Public Health Institutes and National Laboratory Networks reinforcement. She is a member of the Stop TB Partnership Global Laboratory Initiative (GLI) core group, and a rGLC laboratory consultant for programmatic management of drug resistant tuberculosis. Dr Massinga Loembe has more than 15 years experience working in Africa at the interface of clinical research (phase I to III trials) and national laboratory systems reinforcement for better infectious diseases control. She aims at fostering better linkages between researchers, policy makers and national health authorities to ensure better uptake of new recommendations, technologies and scale up new diagnostic tools.