Authorship and citation
Published 29 October 2026
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All the below members of the TB Unit contributed to the production of this report.
Suggested citation
Sharon E Cox, Orla Presslie, Mailis Maes, Jo Hardstaff, Amal Farah, Chukwunonye Aneke, Loes Wals Griffith, Emmanuella O Luce, Mia-Jayne Simmons, Adil Mirza, Sean D’Costa, Emily Shaw, Martin Dedicoat, Jessica Townsend, Sarah Murphy, Sarah Kaestle, Amy Smith, Suzi Coles, Lauren Ahyow, Kazim Beebeejaun, and Esther R Robinson. Tuberculosis in England, 2026 report (data up to end of 2025). October 2026, National TB Unit, UK Heath Security Agency, London.
Lead and senior authors for report series chapters
Executive summary
- Sharon E Cox
- Esther R Robinson
TB incidence and epidemiology in England, 2025
- Chukwunonye Aneke
- Emily Shaw
- Sharon E Cox and Esther R Robinson
TB prevention in England, 2025
- Orla Presslie (Pre-entry TB screening programme)
- Mia-Jayne Simmons (Pre-entry TB screening programme)
- Jo Hardstaff (NHS England Latent TB Infection Testing and Treatment programme)
- Loes Wals Griffith (Contact tracing of TB index cases, BCG)
- Kazim Beebeejaun and Sharon E Cox and Esther R Robinson
TB diagnosis and microbiology in England, 2025
- Mailis Maes
- Esther R Robinson
TB treatment and outcomes in England, 2025
- Amal Farah
- Sharon E Cox and Esther R Robinson
TB in children and adolescents in England, 2025
- Emmanuella O Luce, Amal Farah and Jo Hardstaff
- Suzi Coles
- Sharon E Cox and Esther R Robinson
Database management and data cleaning and curation
Overall database management and cleaning
- Adil Mirza
- Sean D’Costa
National TB Surveillance analytical 2000 to 2025 data set creation
- Orla Presslie
- Mailis Maes
- Amal Farah
- Sharon E Cox
HIV linkage
- Adil Mirza
NHSE LTBI data set 2025 curation
- Jo Hardstaff
- Loes Wals Griffith
Pre-entry TB screening data set 2025 curation
- Orla Presslie
- Mia-Jayne Simmons
ORCID
- Sharon E Cox: 0000-0002-9908-2936
- Orla Presslie: 0009-0005-7282-2235
- Mailis Maes: 0000-0002-0266-6557
- Jo Hardstaff: 0000-0003-3345-209X
- Amal Farah: 0009-0008-4811-3967
- Chukwunonye Aneke 0000-0001-5301-4543
- Emmanuella O Luce: 0009-0000-0232-4744
- Adil Mirza: 0009-0007-7759-9882
- Emily Shaw: 0000-0002-9591-8185
- Martin Dedicoat: 0000-0001-9833-4882
- Jessica Townsend: 0009-0009-7649-6405
- Sarah Murphy 0009-0009-8195-6330
- Suzi Coles: 0009-0006-9800-5302
- Kazim Beebeejaun: 0000-0001-9152-0957
- Esther R Robinson: 0009-0003-0913-3627