LSHTM TB Centre extends a warm welcome to all new students starting London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine this week! If you're interested in #TB please consider applying to be one of our LSHTM TB Centre student reps. Full details here: tinyurl.com/ydr8m95h

France au Sénégal 🇫🇷🇪🇺, I sent an email to the #ConsularOfficer on 28.09.2023 with respect to #visaappointments for 4 of our #earlycareerresearchers from MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM who, despite all their efforts, have been unable to get an appointment! Kindly check the mail and assist! Merci!!

This time next week, we hope you will be enjoying our 1st LSHTM TB Centre seminar of the year with @hr_stagg 📅 17th Oct ⏰12.45 BST Hybrid event, free and open to all tinyurl.com/ykfdjz3a Dr Sedona Sweeney Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH

On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa Cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, gene mapping, vitro fertilization & more THREAD

📊 Join us on Nov 14 for the TB Modelling and Analysis Consortium Course at #UnionConf2023. 🌐 Enhance your expertise in TB research. Secure your spot today 💼 📅 Date: November 14, 2023 🕒 Time: 08:00 to 14:00 CEST 🔗 Register here: tinyurl.com/pgcw23

Final results of the TB-PRACTECAL clinical trial are out in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine! They show that the 24-week all-oral BPaLM regimen is safe and effective. Countries should be implementing it for treatment of pulmonary rifampicin-resistant #tuberculosis! ➡️thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

SIPP: Safe Inhalation Pipe Provision @lshtm is recruiting! Most qual data generated: provides time to write, build publications & co-create outputs. Supportive, multidisciplinary team. High impact: change policy & practice for a highly stigmatised population. Please apply / share. jobs.ac.uk/job/DEG315/res…

LSHTM TB Centre wonderful meeting with our new student liaison officers (SLOs) Sheila Agyeiwaa Owusu Aidan Desjardins #JulianaLeonardo #DanielsDenton #HarshithaRajamohan We are delighted to have you on board! Lara Goscé Dr Sedona Sweeney Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH

The Annual Stephen Lawn Memorial 2024 takes on an exciting new format! LSHTM TB Centre 📅 Tuesday 19 March 2024 ⏰15:00 - 16:30 GMT 'TB and HIV Colliding Epidemics: Voices on the Ground' tinyurl.com/yeyr6tf3 Prof Joy Lawn Linda-Gail Bekker The Union The Lancet

3 weeks today! World TB Day Symposium! UCL-TB LSHTM TB Centre Free & open to all Join online/remotely Registration is required tinyurl.com/czdzmdy2 Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney Rein Houben Finn McQuaid #tuberculosis #tb #WTBD2024

Just over two weeks to go! Don't miss this! Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney Desmond Tutu Health Foundation The Union Linda-Gail Bekker Prof Joy Lawn The Lancet richard horton

Join us for the watch party in London LSHTM TB Centre or online for this amazing event! tinyurl.com/yeyr6tf3 Prof Joy Lawn Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney Desmond Tutu Health Foundation The Lancet Linda-Gail Bekker

TODAY! ⏰15:00 - 16:30 GMT ⏰17.00 SAT We look forward to seeing as many people as possible for this ground-breaking event Free & open to all & many ways to join !tinyurl.com/yeyr6tf3 Registration required LSHTM TB Centre Desmond Tutu Health Foundation The Union UCT Health Sciences UCT IDM The Lancet

LSHTM TB Centre is participating World TB Day symposium about to start! tinyurl.com/czdzmdy2 UCL-TB Toyin Togun, PhD FFPH Dr Sedona Sweeney Rein Houben Finn McQuaid @hr_stagg Palwasha Yousafzai Khan @helen_ayles Rebecca Clark Katherine Horton Lena Faust #tuberculosis #worldtbday Yes! We can end TB!

And we are off! Dr Sedona Sweeney & #MarkLipman opening LSHTM TB Centre & UCL-TB #WorldTBSymposium

Just a reminder that 14 yrs ago there were no waiting lists over 18-weeks, no 12-hour A&E waits, no waiting an hour for an urgent ambulance, over 90% of cancer patients started treated within two months, everyone could see their GP within 2-days,… Then we got the Tories

We are just starting our LSHTM TB Centre Annual Retreat! An exciting day ahead - do follow us today for highlights & postings from #London #Uganda and #Gambia!

Delighted to kick-off the 2024 LSHTM TB Centre Centre #retreat in the spirit of #EquitablePartnerships, with simultaneous in-person satellite gathering & presentations London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in #London, MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM & MRC/UVRI and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, and other members remotely linked. Dr Sedona Sweeney Finn McQuaid

#MSFSci #TB#PRACTECAL clinical trial showed that #BPaLM regimen was superior to the standard of care and influenced #WHO #TB treatment recommendations. Detailed costs of clinical trials are rarely shared publicly. Enter #MSF clinical trial transparency policy.

New work in The Lancet Global Health showing how improvements to TB treatment regimens could offset higher drug costs by improving care and reducing costs for patients and health systems: bit.ly/3yyHRmI. Work was led by Tess Ryckman and informed WHO's target TB regimen profiles.