LIV-TB 2022 Seminars
TB epidemiology and TB control in the UK and North West England
Dr Paul Cleary & Dr Merav Kliner
UKHSA North West
Thursday 17th Nov 2022, 12.30–13.30pm GMT
Online or Wolfson Building Room 8, LSTM
Enhanced tuberculosis screening using computer-aided chest X-ray and SILVAMP-LAM urine diagnosis in adults with HIV admitted to hospital (CASTLE study): A cluster randomised trial
Rachael Burke
Wellcome Clinical PhD fellow, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Thursday 20th Oct 2022, 12.30–13.30pm BST
Online or Wolfson Building Room 8, LSTM
Rachael.burke@lshtm.ac.uk
Acoustic analysis of cough as a novel technology for the screening and diagnosis of active pulmonary tuberculosis
Celso Khosa, MD, PhD
Scientific Director of CISPOC
Instituto Nacional de Saúde, Mozambique
Thursday 15th September 2022, 12:30–13:30 BST
CTID Directors Room, LSTM, or virtually
celso.khosa@ins.gov.mz
Adherence to anti-tuberculosis treatment: Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?
Helen Stagg, MA, MSc, PhD
Reader in Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 18th August 2022, 12.30–13.30 BST
Wolfson Room 8, LSTM, or virtually
helen.stagg@ed.ac.uk
Identification of novel electron transport chain inhibitors and chemical validation of combination strategies against Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Laura Jeffreys, BSc, PhD Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, LSTM, UK
Thursday 21st July 2022, 12.00–13.00, Wolfson Rm 8, LSTM
Laura.jeffreys@lstmed.ac.uk
TB pharmacology
Prof Rovina Ruslami, UNPAD, Indonesia
Sputum pooling for TB testing during the Covid-19 pandemic
Multicomponent Strategy with Decentralized Molecular Testing for Tuberculosis
Dr Achilles Katamba
Senior Lecturer, Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Uganda
Thursday 21st April 2022 12.30-1.30pm (BST)
Ending TB locally, regionally, nationally, and globally: where are we up to on World TB Day 2022
Ocular Tuberculosis
Professor Onn Min Kon
Professor Onn Min Kon is a respiratory physician and head of the tuberculosis service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. He is professor of respiratory medicine at the National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London. He is chair of the UK National Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis (MDRTB) clinical advice service.
Social and health factors associated with adverse treatment outcomes in people with MDR-TB in Sierra Leone
Dr Rashidatu Fouad Kamara
PhD candidate, Rey Juan Carlos University Madrid
Associate Lecturer, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone
Clinical Lead Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, Lakka Hospital, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Consultant World Health Emergencies, WHO