Today, we kick off a weeklong Foundations of Laboratory Leadership & Management training for 20 staff from our #Fajara, #Keneba & #Basse field stations.

The training will provide participants with skills for managing laboratory systems & enhancing leadership in #GlobalHealth research programs.

The Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity at @mcgill.ca @mcgillspgh.bsky.social

2026 Call for Nominations

www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...

Developing directed acrylic graphs to understand TB care engagement | LSHTM Directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) are a key epidemiological tool currently underutilised in TB studies, which often involve complex social factors. In describing her team’s recent DAG development

@tb-lshtm.bsky.social Seminar, free & open to all
📆 12 May
⏰ 12.45 BST
Developing directed acrylic graphs to understand TB care engagement www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

With coauthors @alexandra-richards.bsky.social @aschwalbc.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social from @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social @glasgow.ac.uk

🗞️ In two new publications, members of @tb-lshtm.bsky.social explore the gaps that people living with #TB can fall into at the beginning or end of the care pathway, including post-TB #PublicHealth

Read more 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Integrating tuberculosis control into maternal and newborn health services during pregnancy and postpartum is an urgent priority

Checkout this article I found at PLOS: dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

📈 Want to learn about infectious disease modelling?

Our @lshtm.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social course teaches the basics for modelling #InfectiousDisease outbreaks and control programmes in #PublicHealth

Runs from 15-27 June 2026 with online & in-person spots

Join 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

#Post-tuberculosis lung disease: no ICD code, no problem? Zintle was aged 23 years when she presented for the first time to our clinic in South Africa. Her oxygen saturation was 59% on room air, and for months she had been too short of breath to leave her ho...

#Post-tuberculosis lung disease: no ICD code, no problem? - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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...

@kchorton.bsky.social
@uofgshw.bsky.social
@lightontb.bsky.social

Today! Don't miss this! tinyurl.com/47w5nmtp

PLEASE NOTE: The correct time to join is 15.30 BST
not 14.30 GMT as advertisted on the flyer.

Tomorrow! If you're not lucky enough to be in Cape Town in person, @tb-lshtm.bsky.social is hosting a watch party in London or join remotely tinyurl.com/47w5nmtp
⏰ 15.30 BST
@theunion.org @thelancet.com @joylawn.bsky.social
@sedonasweeney.bsky.social @hr-stagg.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

Tuberculosis in Europe: progress - but not fast enough.

While rates have declined over time, current trends show we are not on track to meet the 2030 global tuberculosis targets.

#TB #Tuberculosis #IDsky #EpiSky #MedSky

🌏 Ahead of World TB Day, new research @lshtm.bsky.social highlights how TB survivors still face worse outcomes up to 14 years after diagnosis and treatment

Findings make compelling case for long-term follow-ups after TB treatments to #EndTB

Read more 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Claire Calderwood: integrated health screening for tuberculosis “Respiratory medicine is deeply connected to social and structural determinants of health in terms of the diseases that we try to prevent and we treat. I think that connection to people's lives and so...

Claire Calderwood: integrated health screening for tuberculosis - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Promotional card for a Profile on Claire Calderwood published in The Lancet. Quote on card reads "Holistic, person-centred care will make health services more responsive to the needs of people who use them, building trust in services for the future."

🆕 A Profile captures the work and advocacy of Claire Calderwood, winner of the 2025 Stephen Lawn TB–HIV Research Leadership Prize: spkl.io/63325AL4x3 #WorldTBDay @joylawn.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social

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.

Accelerating research and development of new vaccines against tuberculosis: 5-year progress on the global roadmap In 2021, a global tuberculosis vaccine research and development roadmap proposed a series of actions to accelerate the development of new, effective, and affordable vaccines that are urgently needed t...

On World TB Day...
#IDSky #TBSky @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Joint @tb-lshtm.bsky.social & @ucltb.bsky.social World TB Day Symposium 2026 has begun A full day of presentation of latest research findings, panel discussions, and engagement with people with lived experiences. "Yes, We Can End TB!"
@mrcunitgambia.bsky.social MRC/UVRI & LSHTM Uganda Research Unit

Our World TB Day Symposium 2026 is just one week away!

Join in person or online, 24 March for the annual UCL/LSHTM symposium, free and open to all.
Programme details and registration link: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

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📣 #PhD thesis now live in Research Online!

Heterogeneity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunoreactivity in urban Malawi: revisiting surveillance needs for tuberculosis elimination/ Rickman, H M

doi.org/10.17037/PUB...

#tuberculosis #Malawi

🗞️ Recent study with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelled the potential impact of funding cuts to TB #PublicHealth initiatives from international donors

Already implemented USAID cuts could cost $7.5 billion (USD) for healthcare systems & people living with TB

Read 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

@tb-lshtm.bsky.social amazing #StudentAmbassadors 2025-26 highlight why everyone interested in TB should join us for these two amazing events marking #WTBD2026
PS: they are both free and open to all!
@ucltb.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social @mrcctu.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

World TB Day Symposium 2026: 2 weeks to go

Join us in London or online on 24 March for the annual UCL/LSHTM symposium

Topics include:
• Beyond the lungs
• Global trends & health systems
• The potential for AI

Details and registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo...

@tb-lshtm.bsky.social

Do join us - a week today! Hybrid, Free and open to all
📆 10 Feb
⏰ 12.45 GMT

Beyond medicine: Social protection and the fight against tuberculosis in Brazil This seminar will present evidence on how conditional cash transfer programmes, such as Bolsa Família, influence tuberculosis incidence and mortality. It will explore how these effects vary by race

Beyond medicine: Social protection and the fight against tuberculosis in Brazil www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

Tomorrow! Eight amazing presentations, free and open to all.
Not to be missed.

Excerpts from Copenhagen: The UNION World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Each year, many LSHTM TB researchers participate in the UNION World Conference on Lung Health, the world's largest conference on TB and lung health. This year, the conference takes place in

Join us 📆 9 Dec ⏰ 12.45 @tb-lshtm.bsky.social seminar
Free & Open to all
@kchorton.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social @danieljgrint.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/2s4y3jcd

Excerpts from Copenhagen: The UNION World Conference on Lung Health 2025 Each year, many LSHTM TB researchers participate in the UNION World Conference on Lung Health, the world's largest conference on TB and lung health. This year, the conference takes place in

Join us 📆 9 Dec ⏰ 12.45 @tb-lshtm.bsky.social seminar
Free & Open to all
@kchorton.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social @danieljgrint.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/2s4y3jcd

Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework Climate change is likely to exacerbate a range of determinants that drive tuberculosis, the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, tuberculosis is often neglected in w...

Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...