Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2002, CREATE is a consortium of leading experts in TB and HIV who design novel public health interventions to reduce the burden of HIV-related TB at the population level.

The Consortium is led by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research, in Maryland, U.S.A., and includes the following Partners:

• Aurum Institute for Health Research - Johannesburg, South Africa
• Desmond Tutu Centre at Stellenbosch University - Tygerberg, South Africa
• Municipal Health Secretariat of Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - London, England
• The Zambart Project - Lusaka, Zambia
• Stop TB Partnership, WHO

CREATE also relies on the Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB), which is an independent group of outside experts who review CREATE projects annually.

Members:

• Philip C. Hopewell - University of California San Francisco, USA
• Francisco I. Pinkusfeld M. Bastos - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil
• Andrew Nunn - Medical Research Council: Clinical Trials Unit, London, UK
• Dr. Karin Weyer - World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

CREATE Executive Committee:

• Richard E. Chaisson - CREATE Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research, USA
• Betina Durovni - THRio Principal Investigator - Transmissible Diseases Department at Secretariat of Health Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Gavin J. Churchyard - Thibela TB Principal Investigator, Aurum Institute of Health Research, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Peter Godfrey-Faussett - ZAMSTAR Principal Investigator, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
• Elizabeth Corbett - Clinical Epidemiologist, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
• Lawrence H. Moulton - Biostatistics Core , Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA
• Paul Nunn - Policy and Advocacy Core, World Health Organization, Switzerland
• Peter Small (ex-officio) - Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USA