European Tuberculosis Research Initiative: fourth meeting of the core group: 23 August 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark

The European Tuberculosis Research Initiative (ERI-TB) was launched by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in 2016 to advance tuberculosis (TB) research in the WHO European Region. It was intended as a platform to build the capacity of Member States of the WHO European Region to implement operational research, which is considered an important source for evidence-informed management of national TB programmes and relevant policy decision-making. This report summarizes the discussions and actions from the fourth meeting of the ERI-TB core group, held on 23 August 2019. It presents key achievements and latest updates on the ERI-TB scope of work for core group members; the new subgroup on drug-resistant TB research; and current and planned activities related to the WHO global strategy for TB research and innovation and to ERI-TB’s Structured Operational Research Training (SORT-TB) for 2019–2020.