Upcoming Presentations

About the monthly TB-WIP Series:

The Emory/Georgia TRAC hosts a monthly “TB Works in Progress” (TB-WIP) conference on the 3rd Friday of the month at 9am, where investigators present about current TB research and public health initiatives. Please contact the TRAC administrative core at TRAC@emory.edu for more information 

Past Presentations:

Samhita Kumar, MPH, Doctoral Student, Global Health & Development Program Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health "Integrating mental health and tuberculosis care systems in Montserrado County, Liberia" [Download Flyer]

Joshua D. Doyle, MD, PhD and Subhadra Nandakumar MS, PhD presented "Closing TB GAPs for People Living with HIV: TB Guidance for Adaptable Participant-Centered Service" [Download Flyer]

Matthew Magee, PhD, MPH presented "Preliminary Results from a Post-TB Study of Non-Communicable Diseases from the Country of Georgia" [Download Flyer]

Dr. Sarita Shah, Dr. Kenneth Castro and Samhita Kumar (Emory) folling their attendance of the United Nations High Level Meeting on TB presented 'UNITED NATIONS HIGH LEVEL MEETING ON TB - What does it mean for ending TB?' [Download Flyer]

Dr. Abdullaat Kadyrov and Dr. Gulmira Kalmambetova of the National TB Program in Kyrgyzstan present an overview of the TB program and current research activities in-country [Download Flyer]

Dr. Anneka Hutton (Emory) presented "Spatial Insights into Tuberculosis: Unraveling Infection Patterns in Human Tissue"

TRAC Special Seminar in collaboration with the Emory Global Diabetes Center "The Intersection of Tuberculosis and Diabetes"

Dr. Alex Rosenthal of NIAID "TB Portals Presentations"

Sophie Joseph of Lindo Labs at Emory dept of Anthropology "Genomic Evidence for Adaptation to Tuberculosis in the Andes Before European Contact" [Paper]

Dr. Anant Madabushi "Abstract Interpreter of Maladies: AL for Precision Medicine"

Dr. Chetan Seshadri, MD of the Seattle TRAC presented "'Resistance' to M. tb Infection: a Tale of Two Cohorts"

Dr. Abdullaat Kadyrov and Dr. Gulmira Kalmambetova of the National TB Program in Kyrgyzstan presented an overview of the TB program and current research activities in-country [Download Flyer]

ID Seminar featuring frequent TRAC Collaborator Dr. Francesca Conradie from South Africa "A brave new world: new Options for the treatment of Rifampicin Resistant TB"  [View flyer]

Dr. Kristin Nelson presents "Thinking Ahead: Implementation of New and Repurposed TB Vaccines" [view flyer]

Dr. Peter Cegielski and Joanne Wu (Emory): "Food for thought: Nutritional Status and Risk of Tuberculosis Compared with Other Infectious Diseases"

Dr. Leo Martinez (BU, inconjunction with the Emory Alliance for VAccine Epidemiology) "Infant BCG vaccinaiton and the risk for TB throughout the lifetime"

Dr. Juliette Sekandi (UGA) "Harnessing Digital Technologies to Support Treatment Adherence and Completionof Treatmentin Patients with Tuberculosis Disease in Uganda"

Dr. Liliana Salvador (UGA) "Mycobacterium Bovis Cross-species transmission and genomic signatures across scales"