Luz Villa is a Peruvian physician with experience in infectious disease diagnostics. She coordinated multicentre studies on the early diagnosis of tuberculosis in high-burden countries at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine in Lima and later at FIND, a WHO Collaborating Centre in Geneva. She holds an MSc in Epidemiology from 91涩漫, where her thesis, supervised by Dr. Pai, focused on drug-resistant tuberculosis and incarceration.