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Peer Reviewers

Prof. Dr. med Rolf Korte
Jason Taylor Wright MSFS MA
Dr. Richard Zaleskis
Dr. Masoud Dara
Andrew Wilson
Annette Vester

Prof. Dr. med Rolf Korte

Rolf Korte is Honorary Professor at the Justus-Liebig University, Department of Hygiene and Environmental Health teaching tropical medicine, and international health. He is a senior health policy advisor to the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and the German development agency, GTZ.

Until recently he was Chair of the independent Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG) appointed by the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM). He is currently Member of the Joint Coordinating Board of the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR).

He was the Director of the Health and Education Department of the German development agency, GTZ, for many years and represented his organization in many fora including the World Health Assembly and technical bodies of WHO.

He served for many years as a co-editor of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. He led the establishment of Tropical Medicine and International Health, a European Journal, a merger of several national journals and still serves on the editorial board.

Rolf Korte was two times President of the German Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health (DTG) and Founding President of the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH). He obtained a public health degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and completed postgraduate training in Nutrition, Tropical Medicine and Quality Management, his special areas of interest.

He has published substantially in scientific journals.
He lived and worked in Kenya, Tanzania and Papua New Guinea.

Jason Taylor Wright MSFS MA

Jason Wright is Multilateral Team Leader and Liaison to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria and the Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of HIV/AIDS. From 2002 to 2008, he was Donor Coordinator Advisor in the USAID Bureau for Global Health.

From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Wright was HIV/AIDS Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Global Health Affairs. From 1997 to 1998, he was Special Assistant to the Director of the HHS Office of International and Refugee Health.

Mr. Wright has a Master of Science in Foreign Service (MSFS), a Master of Arts (MA) in History, and a Certificate in German Public and International Affairs from Georgetown University. He has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) summa cum laude in Political Economy (Historical Concentration) and German Language and Literature with a Minor in Political Science from Tulane University. He earned the Murphy Prize in Political Economy and the German Government Prize for Excellence in German. He spent his Junior Year Abroad at the Universität Hamburg.

Dr. Richard Zaleskis

Dr. Richard Zaleskis graduated from Riga Medical University with a Medical Doctor degree in 1976. Since then he has dedicated his entire practical and scientific career to the study and combat of tuberculosis (TB). In 1984 he graduated with a Ph.D. from the Central Research Institute of Tuberculosis in Moscow. Afterwards he worked at the Tuberculosis Chair of the Medical University in Riga – first as Assistant Professor, then Associated Professor and later as Head of the Chair as well as deputy director of the Latvian Centre for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases.

Since 1994 he works for WHO in different positions, and since 2000 for the Copenhagen based WHO Regional Office for Europe as a WHO Regional Adviser for TB Control.  

He is a member of: International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (UNION) and vice chair of UNION’s Tuberculosis Scientific section; Executive Committee and Council of UNION Europe region; Latvian Association of Pneumologists. He is the Author and co-author of number of papers and articles.

Dr. Masoud Dara

After graduation from Medical University and working in infectious diseases/TB hospital in Iran, Dr Masoud Dara obtained medical board from The United States in 1998. Dr Dara continued his carrier in public health with Médecins Sans Frontières implementing TB control projects in Central Asian Republics 1998-2000 and thereafter rebuilding health system of after-war Kosovo 2000-2001.

In 2001-2003 he joined the World Health Organization in the Russian Federation as a Medical Officer assisting the country improving TB control. Since 2003, Dr Dara has been working as a senior consultant at the international unit of KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation and WHO consultant/adviser. He has 12 years working experience in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East and West Africa, supporting national TB control programs in the civilian and penitentiary sectors, providing technical advice, program reviews, assisting in clinical and programmatic management of MDR-TB, TB/HIV, TB policy making and training of staff in the region.

He is a member of the MDR-TB, TB/HIV and TB Infection control working groups of Stop TB partnership, the scientific committee of “Patients-Centered approaches” a project funded by the EU in West Africa, the Health in Prison Project in Europe, GLC consultant, the Wolfheze programme committee and the Chair of International scientific working group on TB control in prisons. Dr Dara is the author and co-author of a number of articles and guidelines related to TB control.

Andrew Wilson is a writer and editor specializing in public health and development matters. He has worked extensively for different UN organizations, and was one of the authors of the Global Report on AIDS between 2002 and 2006. He currently lives in London, where he is also a serving magistrate.

Anette Vester is the focal point on harm reduction, injecting drug use and prisons in the WHO HIV department. Her main tasks are to develop the evidence base, normative guidance and advocacy documents, and provide advocacy and technical assistance on these issues at the global level.

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