Carlton Evans has been leading a TB control research team in Peru for over a decade, currently constituting about 30 employees and several mentored students. He divides his work between the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia where he is a professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he is an associate and Imperial College London, where he is a practicing clinician and full-time member of staff. Research focuses on strategies for preventing TB dissemination from patients to their contacts in resource-poor settings and aims to train future leaders in global health. Activities include co-directing the Johns Hopkins University Summer and Winter Institutes in TB/HIV control, leading multidisciplinary research and clinical teams, organizing international medical research symposia, serving on ethics committees, consultancies for MSF, WHO and the World Bank and chairing international conference symposia. Clinical work includes UK registration and accreditation as a consultant attending infectious diseases and internal medical physician and regular clinical practice in the UK National Health Service. Capacity building involves mentoring a dynamic research team including international interns, PhD and Masters students in a training network integrating: • modern biosecure laboratories at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia; • independent charities coordinating field work, administration, funding and ethics; • community and hospital research sites in Lima & rural Perú; • on-going projects with Peruvian, Fulbright, Fogarty and international exchange fellows. • co-directing established training courses each year at Johns Hopkins University and in Peru International collaborations include Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Peru, Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, the World Bank and the World Health Organisation.