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raclark18.bsky.social
Research Fellow in the TB Modelling Group at LSHTM modelling TB vaccines👩🏼‍💻💉📚🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Reminder for the #LSHTM #VaccineCentre seminar happening tomorrow! 👇🏻

Climate change is likely to exacerbate determinants which drive TB, the world’s leading infectious disease killer. Commissioned by WHO, we developed an analytical framework outlining potential causal relationships between climate change and TB: medrxiv.org/cgi/content/... @lshtm.bsky.social @who.int

Please join us next week for the February #LSHTMVaccineCentre seminar! Featuring talks by Dr Allison Portnoy (@aportnoy.bsky.social) & Dr Kayoko Shioda from @busph.bsky.social on reaching #zero-dose children and target trial emulation 📆 Thurs 27 Feb 🕗 14–15:00 GMT 📍 Online tinyurl.com/23x2z4an

PhD opportunity @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social modelling intersection of TB (world #1 infectious killer) & climate change. Do apply to be part of a great group doing impactful work! www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a... @lshtm.bsky.social @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social

Come do a PhD with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social! We have 3 TB Modelling projects, applications due 11 March: ➡️Influenza and risk of TB ➡️Climate change on TB in migrant & displaced populations ➡️Housing & infections among the homeless More info here: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

PhD position (London, UK) Quantify the effects of climate change on TB with @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2253

Hot off the press! 🔥 Our new systematic review digs deep into #TB cluster randomised trials, exploring how contamination can influence results, and offers insights for improving trial design #TBSky #IDSky #MedSky doi-org.ez.lshtm.ac.uk/10.5588/ijtl...

Reducing #TB burden requires understanding local contexts. Our new preprint emphasizes the importance of considering social contact patterns for interventions like active case finding, infection prevention & control, & cluster trial design #TBsky #IDsky #GlobalHealth www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting to see our work lead by @cfmcquaid.bsky.social highlighted in @thehindu.com!

New modelling study from colleagues @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social shows HUGE potential for new TB vaccines to reduce TB cases in people with #HIV. Vaccination regardless of HIV status could avert up to 1 MILLION cases in South Africa by 2050 #TBSky #EndTB

Nutritional care for TB-affected households is likely to be highly cost-effective & could avert a substantial amount of disease and death in India – our paper out now in Lancet Global Health @raclark18.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📣 New publication in #AIDS led by Tom Sumner estimating the impact of new TB #vaccines on the burden of TB in PLHIV in #SouthAfrica 🇿🇦 @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social Read the full paper now 👉 tinyurl.com/ezhc9ppx

Our ASCENT modelling paper on Digital Adherence Technologies (DAT) for TB treatment is now out in BMJ Global Health gh.bmj.com/content/9/12... DATs may have limited epidemiological impact but can reduce costs and have important budgetary implications. @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

Undernutrition is a key driver of TB accounting for 1/5 cases, but relationship is poorly understood. New sys review of this based on 42 studies (>26 million people) by Matt Saunders et al: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @reinhouben.bsky.social @raclark18.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

The LSHTM #TB Modelling Group is offering 3 #PhD studentships through the MRC LID scheme. Exciting projects, world-class mentorship. Apply now! Details in thread🧵 mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk @lshtm.bsky.social #TBSky

Come join us for a PhD in the TB Modelling Group at LSHTM! 🎉

Starting off #Union2024 with the introduction to TB modelling course. This time commemorating 10 years of the course with cake!

1/📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/yc6kbay9 - we estimate that 156 million people globally carry a recent, viable M. tuberculosis (Mtb) infection and are at high risk of progressing to TB disease.