World TB Day 2015

Every year, on the 24th of March, the world commemorates the day in 1882 that Dr Robert Koch announce his discovery of the tuberculosis bacteria. in 2015 the World Health Organisation announced the theme would be "What do we need to know to reach, treat and cure everyone with TB."

UCL and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) collaborated to run an event that would bring together researchers from around the world to address this theme. UCL PhD student Catherine Smith kindly blogged the event,and you can scroll down for a full list of speakers on the day with videos of their presentations and links to slides (where available).

Session 1: Plenary lectures/Scene setting

• Professor Ibrahim Abubakar (Introductory speaker)
• Dr Helen Fletcher (Introductory speaker)
• Professor Anne O'Garra (Plenary Lecture speaker)
• Dr Stephen D. Lawn (Plenary Lecture speaker)

Session 2: Global strategy

• Professor Timothy McHugh (Chair) 
• Dr Mukund Uplekar (.pdf file of slideshow)
• Professor Eskild Petersen (.pdf file of slidedhow)
• Dr Ruth McNerney (.pdf file of slideshow)
• Dr Katherine Fielding (.pdf file of slideshow)

Session 3: Debate - Tool vs Social Determinants

• Chair: Dr Marc Lipman (Senior Clinical Lecturer (Honorary Consultant), UCL Division of Medicine)
• Professor Andrew Hayward (Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Inclusion Health Research, UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care)  (.pdf file of slideshow)
• Dr Delia Boccia (Lecturer Social Epidemiology, LSHTM) (.pdf file of slideshow)

Session 4: National strategy

• Dr Helen Booth (chair)
• Duncan Selbie
• Dr Heinke Kunst
• Professor Graham Bothamley
• Mr Aaron Oxley

Session 5: Clinical trials

• Professor Andrew Nunn (Chair)
• Dr James Seddon (.pdf file of slideshow)
• Dr Bern-Thomas Nyang'wa
• Professor Francois Balloux

Concluding remarks

• Professor David Moore (Professor of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine, LSHTM)
• Professor Timothy McHugh (Professor of Microbiology, UCL)