Catharina Boehme
Dr. Catharina Boehme is the Chief Executive Officer of FIND, an international non-profit organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that drives the development and delivery of diagnostic tests for diseases of poverty. Under her leadership, FIND has introduced 10 new point-of-care diagnostics that are used in the fight against infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. Catharina holds a MD from Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and Heidelberg University, Germany, as well as diplomas in Public Health and Executive Development. She is the Chair of the New Diagnostics Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership and serves on several Public Health Advisory Committees (WHO TB STAG; EU Horizon 2020 Dx; Australian Innovation Exchange Programme). She has more than 100 publications. Prior to joining FIND, she worked for the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Munich and established a TB diagnostic research unit at Mbeya Medical Research Program in Tanzania.
