ITI’s Trachoma Expert Committee (TEC) is an independent body of seven internationally recognized experts in the fields of public health, ophthalmology, blindness prevention, and all aspects of the SAFE Strategy for trachoma control and elimination. TEC members provide invaluable advice and counsel to ITI on strategic, technical and operational issues.

Trachoma Expert Committee Members
Allen Foster (Chairman), OBE
- International President of CBM
- Co-Director of the International Centre for Eye Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Wondu Alemayehu, MD, MPH
- Independent Global Consultant and General Manager of Berhan Public Health and Eye Care Consultancy PLC
- Clinical Practice in Ophthalmology, Ethio-Vision Eye Clinic, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Former Associate Prof. of Ophthalmology, Dept. of Ophthalmology , Addis Ababa University; Country Director Project ORBIS International, Inc. – Ethiopia, a blindness prevention country program; and Global Consultant to Project ORBIS International, Inc.
Paul Courtright, DrPH
- Co-director, Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology
- Assistant Professor, Department of Health Care & Epidemiology/Ophthalmology, University of British Columbia
- Associate Member, UBC Center for Health Services Policy Research
Catherine Cross
- Independent Consultant for blindness prevention programs
- Former Manager of International Programmes for Sight Savers International
Joseph M. Feczko, MD
- Former Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer Inc
Anthony Solomon, MB BS (Hons), PhD, DTM&H, PGCAP, MRCP
- Lecturer, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Specialist Registrar, The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London, U.K.
- Director, Rombo Trachoma Research Project, Rombo District, Tanzania
Sheila West, PhD
- El-Maghraby Professor of Preventive Ophthalmology, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
- Director, Trachoma Research Program, Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology and the Center for Global Health, Johns Hopkins University.
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