Dr Sven Hoffner

Dr Sven Hoffner is a senior researcher at Karolinska Institutet and former head of the WHO TB Supranational Reference Laboratory Network in Stockholm, where he has been working since the start of the Supranational Reference Laboratory (SRL) network. He has an extensive international experience of strengthening the laboratory component in controlling drug resistant TB, including high burden settings in Eastern Europe.

He has organized a number of training workshops in the fields of lab management, Quality Management Systems (QMS), molecular diagnosis and biosafety/infection control, and organized external quality assurance of TB laboratories in Sweden and among countries supported by SRL-Stockholm.

Dr Sven Hoffner is a member of the core group of the WHO European Laboratory Initiative (ELI) and contributed to the development and implementation of the recently published new diagnostic algorithm for improved laboratory detection of TB and drug resistant TB. He takes part in many European and International research projects and published more than 200 scientific papers related to various aspects of drug resistant TB control.