Data monitoring: formal committee
The independent Data Monitoring Board (DMB) will make recommendations concerning the study to the Trial Steering Committee. The DMB is chaired by Dr. Simon Kasasa Senior Lecturer, in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at Makerere University School of Public Health in the College of Health Sciences, and other members include Dr. Suzanne Kiwanuka, a review Coordinator for Centre for Systematic Reviews on Human Resources for Health; Dr Paul Otuba, National MDR-TB Coordinator at the NTP; and Dr. Dathan Byonanebye, a lecturer in the Department of Community Health and Behavioural Sciences, Makerere University. The DMB is independent from the sponsor and has no competing interests.