Biography

Elena Venero-Garcia is a Research Assistant at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She holds a BSc in Biomedicine and a Master’s in Epidemiology. Her work focuses on tuberculosis modelling, including its interaction with HIV. She contributes to projects that assess the impact of TB interventions across countries with varying epidemic drivers. She is part of a team developing evidence to support policy decisions in global health.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Cost impact of improving test performance in community screening

This study highlights the need to quantify test performance in real-world settings, including community screening, to avoid overestimating the impact on individuals and health system costs from overtreatment.

Source: Conference 2024

Research Summaries

PAPER
Which TB interventions give the biggest health and economic gains?
04 Sep 2025