Acknowledgements

‘Guidance note on establishing a TB Free Workplace’ has been prepared by Central TB Division (CTD), MoHFW, GoI under the guidance of Ms.L.S.Changsan, Additional Secretary and Mission Director, National Health Mission (NHM), MoHFW, GoI and Dr. P. Ashok Babu, Joint Secretary (RCH & TB). The work on this entire document was well supported and guided by Dr. Rajendra P. Joshi-DDG (TB), CTD, MoHFW, GoI.

Our sincere thanks to Dr. Alok Mathur (ADDG-TB) for his constant support, Dr. Sanjay Kumar Mattoo (ADDG-TB) for the leadership and spearheading this initiative, Dr. Raghuram Rao (ADG-TB) and Dr. Nishant Kumar (Joint Director-Public Health) for their valuable inputs. We would also like to extend gratitude to Dr. Reuben Swamickan (Deputy Director, USAID India), Dr. Ranjani Ramchandran (NPO-WHO) and Dr. Jyoti Jaju (Project Director - iDEFEAT TB Project, The Union) for their expert guidance and whole-hearted support to this initiative. Learnings from the workplace interventions of various organizations and corporates through the GoI’s and USAID’s Corporate TB Pledge initiative are incorporated in the guidance note.

The writing group consists of: Dr Sanjay Kumar Mattoo, Mrigen Deka, Ashish Verma (Central TB Division), Dr Shibu Balakrishnan (WHO India), Dr. Bhavin Vadera (USAID), Dr Manu Mathew, Dr Rakesh PS, Mohd Shadab, Tripti Agarwal, Shreeja Nair, and Dr Nidhi Sumnyan (The Union).