Catharina Boehme is the Assistant Director-General for External Relations and Governance[1] of the World Health Organization.

[3] Early in her career, Boehme worked at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in Munich and established a tuberculosis diagnostic research unit in Tanzania.

In this capacity, she worked on a collaboration with other partners within the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator to make tests for COVID-19 more broadly available.

[5][2] In 2021 Boehme joined the World Health Organization as Chef de Cabinet to Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

[6] Boehme's early research was on an enzyme within the parasite that causes malaria,[7] and the development of new testing methods for the detection of tuberculosis.