Dr Katharina Kranzer

Clinical Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology, LSHTMe. Honorary Clinical Consultant Microbiologist, University College London Hospital

Katharina Kranzer is a Clinical Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Honorary Clinical Consultant Microbiologist at the University College London Hospital. She is based in Zimbabwe where she is leading a research programme focused on infectious diseases specifically tuberculosis, HIV and antimicrobial resistance. She is supporting laboratory capacity building and is a mentor for the Fleming fellows in Zimbabwe. Over the past 6 months has been actively involved in the national COVID19 response.

From 2015-2018 Dr Kranzer directed the National and WHO-Supranational Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory in Germany with a strong mandate for laboratory capacity building, mentoring and training in partner countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Prior to that she completed her clinical specialist training in London, conducted her PhD research focused on TB control in high HIV prevalence settings in South Africa and worked on HIV-related research in Northern Malawi.