Event
TB screening: policies, practices, challenges and opportunities webinar
When: 21 November 2022 at 10h00 GMT
Where: Webinar
Insights from a global survey of National TB Programmes conducted by UCL, WHO and FIND. For policy makers and researchers.
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Programme (Times all in GMT)
Co-chairs:
- Hanif Esmail (UCL)
- Morten Ruhwald, Director, Tuberculosis Programme (FIND)
10:00 – Introduction and overview of WHO systematic screening guidelines
- Cecily Miller – World Health Organization – Global TB Programme
10:15 – Results of Global NTP Survey on Policies, Practices and Challenges for TB Screening
- Liana Macpherson – University College London
10:40 – Implementing TB Screening – Pakistan Experience
- Razia Fatima – Pakistan National TB Programme
11:00 – Insights from Prevalence Surveys
- Rein Houben – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
11:20 – Digital Chest X-Ray and Computer Aided Detection for TB
- Sandra Kik, Consultant TB Epidemiologist – FIND
11:40 – TB screening: Operational Research Questions and Opportunities
- Hanif Esmail – University College London
Tickets aren’t required, but it would greatly help us to have a realistic idea of attendance so that we have a webinar licence that accommodates everyone.