{"id":635,"date":"2025-12-17T13:44:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/?p=635"},"modified":"2026-08-13T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:26:44","slug":"bumc-tiara-at-union-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/2025\/12\/17\/bumc-tiara-at-union-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"BUMC TIARA AT UNION 2025!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"247\" data-end=\"328\">Highlights from the Union\u00a0World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Conference in Copenhagen (November 18\u201321, 2025)<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized-636x477.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"477\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized-636x477.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"260\">Tuesday, November 18, 2025<\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"540\">\n<li data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"410\">\n<p data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"410\"><strong data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"391\">Using whole genome sequencing and other metadata to estimate factors associated with tuberculosis transmission in Lima, Peru<\/strong><br data-start=\"391\" data-end=\"394\" \/><em data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"410\">Anne Shapiro<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"412\" data-end=\"540\">\n<p data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"540\"><strong data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"520\">Smoked drug use drives TB transmission dynamics in a rural community in the Western Cape, South Africa<\/strong><br data-start=\"520\" data-end=\"523\" \/><em data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"540\">Sam Malatesta<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"545\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"547\" data-end=\"579\">Wednesday, November 19, 2025<\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"580\" data-end=\"1217\">\n<li data-start=\"580\" data-end=\"711\">\n<p data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"711\"><strong data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"683\">Progress Towards a PAN-TB Regimen: Insights from the PAN-TB Collaboration\u2019s XBQS Phase 2b\/c Trial<\/strong><br data-start=\"683\" data-end=\"686\" \/><em data-start=\"688\" data-end=\"711\">Chair: David Holtzman<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"865\">\n<p data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"865\"><strong data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"826\">Resilient TB contact tracing amid crisis: evaluating household-based screening during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/strong><br data-start=\"826\" data-end=\"829\" \/><em data-start=\"831\" data-end=\"865\">Amanda Brumwell, Meredith Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"867\" data-end=\"972\">\n<p data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"972\"><strong data-start=\"869\" data-end=\"950\">Scoring the Silent Threat: Age-specific risk models for pediatric TB contacts<\/strong><br data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"953\" \/><em data-start=\"955\" data-end=\"972\">Meredith Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"974\" data-end=\"1072\">\n<p data-start=\"976\" data-end=\"1072\"><strong data-start=\"976\" data-end=\"1051\">Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in TB Care: Breaking the Silence<\/strong><br data-start=\"1051\" data-end=\"1054\" \/><em data-start=\"1056\" data-end=\"1072\">Karen Jacobson<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1074\" data-end=\"1217\">\n<p data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1217\"><strong data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1198\">Who benefits from community-based active TB screening programmes? Diagnostic yields, early detection, and demographics<\/strong><br data-start=\"1198\" data-end=\"1201\" \/><em data-start=\"1203\" data-end=\"1217\">Lauren Linde<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-start=\"1219\" data-end=\"1222\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"1224\" data-end=\"1255\">Thursday, November 20, 2025<\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"2069\">\n<li data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"1430\">\n<p data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1430\"><strong data-start=\"1258\" data-end=\"1411\">Nutritional markers and poor weight gain during tuberculosis treatment are associated with persistent inflammation and post-tuberculosis lung disease<\/strong><br data-start=\"1411\" data-end=\"1414\" \/><em data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1430\">Akshay Gupte<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1432\" data-end=\"1607\">\n<p data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1607\"><strong data-start=\"1434\" data-end=\"1587\">A novel bioinformatics household linkage technique reveals populations at high risk for TB infection within a multi-state US community health network<\/strong><br data-start=\"1587\" data-end=\"1590\" \/><em data-start=\"1592\" data-end=\"1607\">Jeff Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1609\" data-end=\"1761\">\n<p data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1761\"><strong data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1740\">Cost and impact of decentralizing tuberculosis testing: price thresholds for molecular instruments in high-TB-burden settings<\/strong><br data-start=\"1740\" data-end=\"1743\" \/><em data-start=\"1745\" data-end=\"1761\">Brooke Nichols<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1763\" data-end=\"1889\">\n<p data-start=\"1765\" data-end=\"1889\"><strong data-start=\"1765\" data-end=\"1870\">Understanding the early natural history of post-TB lung disease: Insights from the TB Aftermath Study<\/strong><br data-start=\"1870\" data-end=\"1873\" \/><em data-start=\"1875\" data-end=\"1889\">Akshay Gupte<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1891\" data-end=\"2069\">\n<p data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"2069\"><strong data-start=\"1893\" data-end=\"2043\">Cost-effectiveness of targeted next-generation sequencing for TB drug-resistance testing as an alternative to the standard of care in South Africa<\/strong><br data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2046\" \/><em data-start=\"2048\" data-end=\"2069\">Brooke Nichols, PhD<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr data-start=\"2071\" data-end=\"2074\" \/>\n<h3 data-start=\"2076\" data-end=\"2105\">Friday, November 21, 2025<\/h3>\n<ul data-start=\"2106\" data-end=\"2315\">\n<li data-start=\"2106\" data-end=\"2180\">\n<p data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2180\"><strong data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2164\">A global survey of TB management policies in prisons<\/strong><br data-start=\"2164\" data-end=\"2167\" \/><em data-start=\"2169\" data-end=\"2180\">Amy Zheng<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"2182\" data-end=\"2315\">\n<p data-start=\"2184\" data-end=\"2315\"><strong data-start=\"2184\" data-end=\"2293\">Placing a nutritional lens on pediatric TB risk: variability in definitions and their association with TB<\/strong><br data-start=\"2293\" data-end=\"2296\" \/><em data-start=\"2298\" data-end=\"2315\">Meredith Brooks<\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/tb\/files\/2025\/12\/Copenhagen-Dinner-Pic_resized.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Highlights from the Union\u00a0World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Conference in Copenhagen (November 18\u201321, 2025) Across four days of sessions and posters, researchers shared new insights advancing tuberculosis (TB) prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and post-TB care. 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