Unmet needs in tuberculosis diagnosis and case management in LMICs

Image courtesy of GHESKIO

The Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University & The Mérieux Foundation USA are pleased to invite you to their symposium.

A week after the UN High-Level Meeting on the fight against tuberculosis, listen to the perspective of experts from the front lines in TB high-burden countries and partnerships at work to address the unique challenges they face.

The symposium will showcase innovative strategies that could potentially be expanded to other high-burden countries, including successful models for community-based interventions and novel approaches for TB prevention and childhood TB in the most vulnerable, hardest to reach populations. It will also look at the challenges facing national TB programs to address unmet needs and factors impeding their resolution.

Featured speakers:

• Welcome by Dr. Lynn Goldman, Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health
• Introduction by Dr. Jon Andrus, Adjunct Professor, Milken Institute School of Public Health
• Keynote presentation on today’s TB landscape by Dr. C. Robert Horsburgh, Jr., Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Global Health and Medicine, Boston University and Vice-President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IUATLD)
• Presentation on successes and challenges in two high-burden countries by Dr. Vanessa Rouzier, Director of Research at GHESKIO, Haiti & Dr. Sayera Banu, Senior Scientist & Head, Emerging Infections, Infectious Diseases Division at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (icddr,b), Bangladesh
• Roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Kevin De Cock, Former Director of the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) Center for Global Health and CDC program in Kenya ‘Improving TB prevention, detection and treatment in high-burden countries: successful models, innovative interventions and their implications for the future’ with panelists Dr. Vanessa Rouzier, Dr. Sayera Banu & Dr. Jacob Creswell, Head, Innovations and Grants, Stop TB Partnership
• Closing remarks by Dr. Amy Piatek, Senior Tuberculosis Technical Advisor, USAID

Thursday, September 28, 2023 - 11:00-12:30 (EDT)
Milken Institute School of Public Health Auditorium
950 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC 20052

Live streaming on Zoom

Participation is free