Biography

Karina Kielmann is a medical anthropologist and health systems researcher, currently based in the Institute for Global Health & Development, Queen Margaret University. Her research is situated at the community-health systems interface, and focuses on how to make health systems more responsive and accountable to the needs of individuals living with TB, drug-resistant TB, and related co-morbidities. Recent work has examined how we can improve health systems readiness assessments for decentralized and integrated care for DR-TB and TB-NCD co-morbidities by incorporating patient and provider experiential knowledge in the tools used.