🎧Listen to The TBPod with @petermacp.bsky.social discussing an urban-rural tuberculosis prevalence meta-analysis, revealing substantial regional variation and a global trend towards urbanisation of #TB
Podcast - www.buzzsprout.com/851944/episo...
Paper - journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
Very pleased to be awarded an NIHR Global Health Research Professorship! Will work with partners in Malawi to investigate new approaches to using AI to support #TB diagnosis.
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Professor Peter MacPherson, smiling at camera wearing glasses and a blue shirt.
@petermacp.bsky.social has received an @nihr.bsky.social
Global Health Research Professorship.
He will work with partners in Malawi to investigate a new approach to artificial intelligence testing for tuberculosis #TB
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In our latest paper in @plosmedicine.org, we explore trade-offs in diagnostic algorithm, coverage, and duration of community screening for #TB, highlighting the importance of symptom-agnostic approaches and the need for strategies to sustain impact when screening ends.
plos.io/4tuD2SM
Awesome - looking forwards to it.
We are staying on the Kintyre Peninsula, and took the ferry across to Gigha (community owned island in inner Hebrides) yesterday.
Other favourites are Mull and North Uist.
Always welcome if coming past Glasgow.
Me and the family on a remote Scottish island today.
Exactly. These data are from prevalence surveys, where people are randomly selected from urban and rural areas and offered TB testing, aiming to precisely estimate prevalence. So shouldn’t be affected by testing capacity.
We found that #TB epidemics are becoming increasingly urbanised.
Important implications for supporting effective public health interventions to end tuberculosis epidemics.
🧪 #MedSky
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In this systematic review & meta-analysis, Mortazavi & colleagues (@petermacp.bsky.social) investigate urban vs rural differences in #TB prevalence between 2000 and 2024 in 26 low- and middle-income countries, finding that TB epidemics have become increasingly urbanized 🧪 #MedSky
plos.io/3O79BqY
In meta-analysis of national and subnational #TB prevalence surveys, we found that between 2000-2024, tuberculosis epidemics are rapidly urbanising.
doi.org/10.1371/jour...
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New study led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social.
Reducing men’s TB risk and improving treatment access could have big impacts on #TB incidence and deaths for men, women, and children.
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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What if targeting TB in men could benefit entire populations?
This new modelling study from @alexandra-richards.bsky.social suggests exactly that 👇
✔️ More treatment coverage
✔️ Address social & structural risks
👉 Big reductions in TB incidence & mortality
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
This #WorldTBday is a honour to be in Blantyre, Malawi, where we kicked off recruitment into the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded ZAMSA-TB study.
The team are developing new epidemiological methods to measure future vaccine effectiveness in the community.
Our first TBPod episode of 2026 is live! 🎧
Dr Peter MacPherson breaks down HIV–TB care, urban TB trends & diagnostic advances.
Listen below! www.buzzsprout.com/851944/episo...
Our analysis of #TB exposure and transmission patterns is now in @pnas.org. @petedodd24.bsky.social and I found a majority of TB transmission globally is attributable to contact with adult men, while contributions to transmission by age are more variable across regions.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Apply by 11th May to do a PhD @lshtm.bsky.social Work with epidemiologists, social scientists & modellers to understand quality of life measures in Syphilis and develop evidence on cost-effectiveness of interventions & public health strategies.
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In this modeling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries 🧪 #MedSky #TB
plos.io/4ryyBFX
1/📢 In our new publication, we estimate that in 2022, 134 million people worldwide had a recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and were at high risk of progressing to TB disease. Read the full paper in PLOS Medicine (tinyurl.com/mtbinfection). #TBSky
Very please to share the results of the SaDAPT Trial.
In Malawi and Lesotho, same-day initiation for ART for #HIV in people with #TB symptoms was non-inferior to ART initiation after TB investigations, and with no safety concerns.
authors.elsevier.com/c/1mb~68MsVo...
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One of the pleasures of my academic job is my role as an Academic Editor for PLOS Medicine.
Next up in our 'meet the editors' is Academic Editor Peter MacPherson (@petermacp.bsky.social), Professor of Global Public Health and Head of Public Health at the University of Glasgow. Peter also specializes in infectious disease epidemiology, tuberculosis, HIV, and evidence synthesis 🧪 #MedSky
I have been messing around with biscale plots here… but not sure whether they work on not. Could work with a hex plot too I guess
We are recruiting! We are looking for statistical methodologists at Research Fellow / Senior Research Fellow level for our new Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Clinical Trial Innovation. If you know of anyone who might be interested, please share!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
I biked to work today in the snow in Glasgow. It was delightful!
Our Editor’s Choice commentary in @cidjournal.bsky.social finds that reported TB symptoms are an inadequate classifier of disease state, as they are heavily influenced by context and substantial interviewer variability, and may have alternative causes.
Read more here👇🏻
doi.org/10.1093/cid/...
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity!🚨
Interested in researching how to improve risk prediction for people with #tuberculosis #TB and #multimorbidity?
Joint project between @uofgshw.bsky.social 🏴 and @ki.se 🇸🇪, funded by UK MRC.
Details here⬇️
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Latent #tuberculosis (TB) infection screening programmes for migrants from high to low TB incidence countries can be effective and cost-saving in a variety of settings.
New study by @petermacp.bsky.social @alice-e-taylor.bsky.social @publichealthscot.bsky.social
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Ahead of The Union World Conference on Lung Health, Katherine Horton provides @the-independent.com with insights into the devastating impact of the funding cuts on global health, particularly tuberculosis.
Be sure to read about the threat of UK aid cuts: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Every year, ~500,000 people develop TB in Nigeria — but 30% go undiagnosed.
Dr. Chukwuebuka Ugwu’s DESTINE study shows how gender-tailored, locally co-created TB interventions can close this gap.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/JOFzgHOwFFk?...
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