Salome Charalambous is the group chief scientific officer at the Aurum Institute in South Africa. She is a medical doctor with an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK). She has been involved in TB and HIV programme implementation and research since 1998, and has published in the areas of TB case finding, TB/HIV integration and HIV programme management. Prof. Charalambous was also part of the African co-ordinator team for TB Sequel and is currently the director of the TB Sequel Project. In addition, she has been involved in policy development as the head of the Secretariat of the South African National TB Think Tank.