News
PUBLICATION ALERT: Family first: integrating principles of family-centered care to improve the tuberculosis care cascade.
Congratulations to Dr. Brooks and multiple members of the TIARA team!
PUBLICATION ALERT: PET–CT benchmarked detection and 5-year progression of asymptomatic tuberculosis: a longitudinal, prospective cohort study
Congrats to Dr. Jacobson and the rest of the the authorship team!
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(26)00056-1/fulltext
World TB Day 2026
Today is World TB Day
Tuberculosis kills more than 1.3 million people every year and yet it remains one of the most treatable infectious diseases we know. The gap between what's possible and what's happening is a research problem. It's a systems problem.
This #WorldTBDay, we're renewing our commitment to the interdisciplinary science that can close that gap — connecting immunologists, clinicians, microbiologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians and community health researchers around a shared mission: ending TB for good.
The theme this year is Yes, We Can End TB. We believe it.
UPDATED 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
- April 16 | External | Dr. Hemant Shewade
- April 30 | External | Dr. Carina Marquez
- May 7 | External | Dr. Jane Carter
- May 21 | External | Dr. Karen Du Preez
GRANT ALERT: Mechanisms of the alternative macrophage activation in TB
Congrats Dr. Igor Kramnik on his recent R21!
Dr. Meredith Brooks and Dr. Lindsey Locks win 2026 Human Capital Initiative Collaborative Grant Award
The Human Capital Initiative Announces the Winners of the 2026 Collaborative Grant Award: Lindsey M. Locks and Meredith Brooks – “Integrating Nutrition into Pediatric Tuberculosis Prevention in Ghana: A Policy-Oriented Implementation Readiness Assessment”
See more information and a link to their project description here!
PUBLICATION ALERT: Adaptive bandit algorithms increase efficiency of mobile tuberculosis screening programs
Congrats to Jiujia, Dr. Meredith Brooks and others!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-31829-x
PUBLICATION ALERT: Uncovering household tuberculosis infection testing and care patterns using a novel bioinformatics linkage strategy
Congrats to Dr. Jeff Campbell and others:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/boston-medical-center_uncovering-household-tuberculosis-infection-activity-7428112479689502720-5Z2m?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACA0_UAB153puAtRpfjE6nbfKy59ZOoV8uM
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. Hemant Shewade
- April 16 | Internal | Dr. Amyn Malik + Dr. Amy Zheng
- April 30 | External | Dr. Carina Marquez
- May 7 | External | Dr. Jane Carter
- May 21 | External | Dr. Karen Du Preez
TB UNMASKED – presentation by Dr. Jerry Ellner
Please skip forward to 6:40 -- we had some technical difficulties up until then!