Dr Elmira Gurbanova

Dr Elmira Gurbanova is a medical doctor from Azerbaijan. She works for the Main Medical Department of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan as Head of the WHO collaborating centre on prevention and control of tuberculosis in prisons and at the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Since 2010, Dr Gurbanova has gained practical experience of TB and multidrug and extensively drug resistant TB (M/XDR-TB) clinical management, as well as programmatic management of drug-resistant TB (PMDT) in the Azerbaijan TB Control in Prisons Programme, which is internationally accepted as centre of excellence on PMDT among prisoners. Dr Gurbanova also has more than 5 years' international experience in about 10 countries as a WHO consultant on a series of GLC monitoring missions in the WHO European Region and as an international trainer in related fields.