Biography
Cecily Miller, PhD, is a technical officer with the Global Programme on Tuberculosis & Lung Health at the World Health Organization, in the TB Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, Care & Innovation team. She is an infectious disease epidemiologist and has been with WHO since 2019, where she works on the development of global policy and implementation guidance for TB screening, detection and prevention. Prior to joining WHO, she worked for 10 years at the Center for Tuberculosis at the University of California San Francisco, focusing on clinical and implementation research of novel approaches to TB diagnosis and case detection.
Key Impacts
The contribution of screening to global TB notification
Despite a non-negligible contribution of screening activities to global TB notification and widespread availability of chest X-rays at peripheral levels, TB treatment coverage remains suboptimal. Chest X-ray coverage and screening activities need to be expanded in high-burden communities and countries, alongside greater access to accurate chest X-ray interpretation (including computer-aided detection software) and confirmatory testing.
Source: Conference 2024
Updated WHO Target Product Profiles for novel TB screening tools and technologies
Impact details available upon request.
Source: Conference 2024