BUMC TIARA AT UNION 2025!
Highlights from the Union World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Conference in Copenhagen (November 18–21, 2025)
Across four days of sessions and posters, researchers shared new insights advancing tuberculosis (TB) prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and post-TB care. Faculty from Boston University and Boston Medical Center had many presentations throughout the conference.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
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Using whole genome sequencing and other metadata to estimate factors associated with tuberculosis transmission in Lima, Peru
Anne Shapiro -
Smoked drug use drives TB transmission dynamics in a rural community in the Western Cape, South Africa
Sam Malatesta
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
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Progress Towards a PAN-TB Regimen: Insights from the PAN-TB Collaboration’s XBQS Phase 2b/c Trial
Chair: David Holtzman -
Resilient TB contact tracing amid crisis: evaluating household-based screening during the COVID-19 pandemic
Amanda Brumwell, Meredith Brooks -
Scoring the Silent Threat: Age-specific risk models for pediatric TB contacts
Meredith Brooks -
Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in TB Care: Breaking the Silence
Karen Jacobson -
Who benefits from community-based active TB screening programmes? Diagnostic yields, early detection, and demographics
Lauren Linde
Thursday, November 20, 2025
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Nutritional markers and poor weight gain during tuberculosis treatment are associated with persistent inflammation and post-tuberculosis lung disease
Akshay Gupte -
A novel bioinformatics household linkage technique reveals populations at high risk for TB infection within a multi-state US community health network
Jeff Campbell -
Cost and impact of decentralizing tuberculosis testing: price thresholds for molecular instruments in high-TB-burden settings
Brooke Nichols -
Understanding the early natural history of post-TB lung disease: Insights from the TB Aftermath Study
Akshay Gupte -
Cost-effectiveness of targeted next-generation sequencing for TB drug-resistance testing as an alternative to the standard of care in South Africa
Brooke Nichols, PhD
Friday, November 21, 2025
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A global survey of TB management policies in prisons
Amy Zheng -
Placing a nutritional lens on pediatric TB risk: variability in definitions and their association with TB
Meredith Brooks