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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 16 | Internal | Dr. Amyn Malik + Dr. Amy Zheng
- April 30 | External | Dr. Carina Marquez
- May 7 | External | Dr. Jane Carter
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
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Using whole genome sequencing and other metadata to estimate factors associated with tuberculosis transmission in Lima, Peru
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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
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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
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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
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Placing a nutritional lens on pediatric TB risk: variability in definitions and their association with TB
Meredith Brooks
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!
Updated schedule for fall 2025 TBIG
TBIG Schedule for Fall 2025:
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- 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 Sinha - Internal
- November 13, 2025: Dr. Igor Kramnik - Internal
- December 4, 2025: Dr. Jerry Ellner - External
- December 18, 2025: Genevieve Dupuis & Dr. Jackie Dinh - Internal
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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:
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- 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- Internal
- November 13, 2025: Dr. Igor Kramnik - Internal
- December 4, 2025: TBD - External
- December 18, 2025: Genevieve Dupuis & Dr. Jackie Dinh - Internal
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