Dr. Michael Reid is co-author of "Building a tuberculosis-free world: The Lancet Commission on tuberculosis." He is an assistant professor of medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and also works in the UCSF Center for Global Health Diplomacy and Delivery.
There is rising optimism that technological innovations could solve many of the programmatic and logistical barriers that have hindered TB control efforts for the last 25 years.
