TIARA TBIG Schedule for spring 2026
TBIG Schedule for spring 2026: January 22 | Internal | Dr. Akshay Gupte + Dr. Bob Horsburgh February 5 | External | Dr. Ben Lopman March 5 | External | Dr. Jonathan Campbell March 19 | 11:30-2:30pm **Mini-Symposium* Dr. Sarah Fortune & Others April 2 |Internal | Dr. Rachel Yorlets + Dr. Jeff Campbell April […]
TB UNMASKED – presentation by Dr. Jerry Ellner
Please skip forward to 6:40 — we had some technical difficulties up until then!
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 Using […]
PUBLICATION ALERT: Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence Among People Who Smoke Illicit Drugs: A Respondent- Driven Sampling Study in the Western Cape, South Africa
Congrats Dr. Malatesta, Dr. Jacobson and team! Tuberculosis Disease Prevalence Among People Who Smoke Illicit Drugs: A Respondent- Driven Sampling Study in the Western Cape, South Africa | The Journal of Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic
Updated schedule for fall 2025 TBIG
TBIG Schedule for Fall 2025: September 4, 2025: Intro Session (goals for upcoming year) – Internal September 18, 2025: Dr. Cynthia Tschampl, Brandeis University – External October 16, 2025: Lauren Linde and Rachel Yorlets – Internal October 23, 2025: David Gillerman and Sophie Reilly – Internal November 6, 2025: Dr. Allison Portnoy and Dr. Pranay […]
Updated WHO TB Guidelines
See updated WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis here!
TB Tracking App Earns Top Honors in Dean’s Innovation Challenge
Doctoral students Jiujia Zhang (ENG) and Lauren Linde (SPH) and SPH faculty members Leonardo Martinez and Meredith Brooks won the challenge with a scalable web-based app designed to optimize the placement of community-based TB screening units to maximize detection effectiveness. See more here: Tuberculosis Tracking App Earns Top Honors in Dean’s Innovation Challenge | SPH
Submissions for the 2026 END TB Conference are open!
Submissions for the 2026 END TB Conference are open! The 2026 END TB Conference is now accepting abstracts, challenging cases, and travel grant applications for this year’s conference held in Philadelphia, USA. The deadline for submission of abstracts, challenging cases, and travel grants is September 30, 2025. See more information about the conference here.
RESIST-TB Webinar: Everything is Tuberculosis with John Green
John Green will join the RESIST-TB community to discuss his 2025 NYT bestselling book, “Everything is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection” Sep 11, 2025 08:00 AM. Hardcover copies are available at your local independent bookstore, hardcover and digital editions through this link. Register for the webinar here.
Schedule for TBIG Fall 2025
TBIG Schedule for Fall 2025: September 4, 2025: Intro Session (goals for upcoming year) – Internal September 18, 2025: Dr. Cynthia Tschampl, Brandeis University – External October 16, 2025: Lauren Linde and Rachel Yorlets – Internal October 23, 2025: David Gillerman and Sophie Reilly – Internal November 6, 2025: Dr. Allison Portnoy and Amy Zheng- […]