London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Left to right: Professor Toyin Togun, Professor Katharina Kranzer, Dr Claire Calderwood and Dr Guy Marks

The TB Centre Prize Steering Committee is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2025 Stephen Lawn TB-HIV Research Leadership Prize is Dr Claire Calderwood.

Claire is an Academic Clinical Lecturer in Respiratory Medicine at Imperial College London, UK. She completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in August 2025, with research based at the Health Research Unit Zimbabwe. Her research explores and seeks to develop interventions to address tuberculosis-related multimorbidity, including multimorbidity care for people with TB and family-centred approaches to TB screening and care.

Upon receiving her award at this year's UNION Conference in Denmark, Claire said:

"I am deeply honoured to receive the Steve Lawn TB–HIV Research Leadership Prize and would like to express my sincere thanks to the Prize Steering Committee, the LSHTM TB Centre, The Union and the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre. I am grateful to my mentors and collaborators at LSHTM, BRTI, the Zimbabwe National TB Programme and elsewhere, whose partnership has been central to this work. I also thank Wellcome for funding my doctoral research. This recognition reflects the collective efforts of an exceptional group of colleagues and community partners, and I am privileged to contribute to advancing integrated, person-centred care for people affected by TB."

Many congratulations, Claire!