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World TB Day 2019

Our 2019 event took听place on Friday, 22nd March at the and was a joint collaboration between 果冻影院, our hosts at the Crick, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

This year, we were very听excited to partner with institutions in the USA and Vietnam to make the symposium a truly global event.听 Events began in听London, and towards the end of our day, as the American West Coast woke up, we had an extended听handover to San Francisco.听 The UCSF event ended at 5pm their time and a symposium in Hanoi completed the marathon symposium.

Full details of the speaker programme are below.听 Recordings of the talks are accessible via the following links:

  • Dr Eric Goosby ()
  • Dr Nim Pathy, Prof Taane Clark, Dr Claudio听K枚ser ()
  • Dr Myrsini Kaforou, Dr Rishi Gupta, Dr Susanne Herbst ()
  • Prof Robert Wilkinson,听Dr Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Dr Pete Dodd, Dr Peter MacPherson, Dr Delia Boccia, Dr Lucy Thomas ()
  • Transatlantic session including听Dr Bob Wachter, Dr Payam Nahid, Dr Nguyen Viet Nhung, Prof Dame Sally Davies, Dr Richard Pan, Prof Liz Corbett and听Prof Adithya Cattamanchi听()
8.45-9.15amRegistration and coffee
9.15-9.25amWelcome address听听 听
(LSHTM)听
9.25-9.50am

Lancet Commission on TB
(UCSF and UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis)

(Imperial College)
From global to national priorities: mathematical modelling in support of the Lancet Commission on TB

9.50-10.30amSession 1: Antimicrobial resistance
(LSHTM)
What can whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis tell us?
(University of Cambridge)
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it鈥�. Defining susceptibility and resistance to anti-TB drugs.
10.30-11.00amCoffee and networking break听
11.00am-12:00pm听Session 2: TB pathophysiology & diagnostic biomarkers
(Imperial College)
Host RNA biomarkers for TB: challenges and future directions
(果冻影院)
Predicting incident tuberculosis: Can the transcriptome supplant the T-cell response?
(Francis Crick Institute)
The role of the Parkinson's Disease kinase LRRK2 in innate immune responses to M. tuberculosis
12.00-1.15pmLunch break听

1.15-1.55pm		Session 3: Vaccines and clinical trials
(Imperial College and Francis Crick Institute)
Vaccination against tuberculosis
(果冻影院)
TB preventive therapy: gaps and opportunities in the programmatic management of latent TB听infection
1.55-3.00pm听

Session 4: Determinants of mortality
(Sheffield)
Estimating the burden of TB deaths in low-resource settings lacking vital registration
(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)
Spatial epidemiology of TB notifications and mortality in Blantyre, Malawi
(LSHTM)
Addressing Tuberculosis mortality: the role of cash transfers interventions
(LSHTM)
Trends and risk factors for death excess all-cause mortality among notified tuberculosis cases in the UK: an analysis of surveillance data (presentation given by Dr Lucy Thomas, PHE, in Ms Pedrazzoli's absence)

3.00-3.30pmCoffee and networking break听
3.30-3.45pm听Welcome to UCSF and summary of the Hanoi symposium
(UCSF)
(UCSF)
(Vietnam National Lung Hospital and NTP)
3.45-4.00pm听Address: TB and the antimicrobial resistance agenda
(UK Department of Health & Social Care)
TB and the Antimicrobial Resistance Agenda
4.00-4.30pmKeynote address
(California State Senator)
4.30-5.25pm听Debate: Make TB prevention great again! 听This house believes treatment of LTBI should not be a high priority for low resource settings
(LSHTM)
In favour
(UCSF)
Against
5.25-7.00pmFinal thanks and handover to UCSF, followed by drinks reception