Cathy Hewison

Cathy Hewison is a medical doctor, working with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) since 1997, and since 2005 as a tuberculosis advisor in the MSF Medical Department (Operational Centre Paris), supporting MSF projects worldwide on different aspects of tuberculosis diagnosis, management and associated research. Cathy is also the leader of the MSF TB working group since 2020, representing MSF internationally and coordinating MSF TB activities. She has a particular interest in new drugs for drug resistant tuberculosis treatment and is involved in the endTB project, and in the management of TB in children, initiating the multicounty project TACTiC ( Test Avoid Cure TB in Children).