Biography

Erin McConnell is a Senior TB Project Associate at Treatment Action Group (TAG), based in New York. At TAG, she works with community advocates to capacitate, support, and engage communities to shape TB research, policy, and practice. Erin also focuses on health financing advocacy, with emphasis on sovereign debt as a barrier to healthy communities. Prior to joining TAG, Erin worked in drug and vaccine development for infectious diseases and served as a policy analyst focused on medicine access and justice. She holds a BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Reed College and an MPH from Boston University.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Sovereign debt relief and reform as pathway to domestic resource mobilisation for investments in TB

Impact details available upon request.

Source: Conference 2024