World TB Day 2019

Our 2019 event took place on Friday, 22nd March at the Francis Crick Institute and was a joint collaboration between UCL, our hosts at the Crick, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

This year, we were very excited to partner with institutions in the USA and Vietnam to make the symposium a truly global event. Events began in London, and towards the end of our day, as the American West Coast woke up, we had an extended handover to San Francisco. The UCSF event ended at 5pm their time and a symposium in Hanoi completed the marathon symposium.

Full details of the speaker programme are below. Recordings of the talks are accessible via the following links:

Dr Eric Goosby (via Dropbox)
Dr Nim Pathy, Prof Taane Clark, Dr Claudio Köser (via Crick website - password "crick")
Dr Myrsini Kaforou, Dr Rishi Gupta, Dr Susanne Herbst (via Crick website - password "crick")
Prof Robert Wilkinson, Dr Molebogeng X. Rangaka, Dr Pete Dodd, Dr Peter MacPherson, Dr Delia Boccia, Dr Lucy Thomas (via Crick website - password "crick")
Transatlantic session including Dr Bob Wachter, Dr Payam Nahid, Dr Nguyen Viet Nhung, Prof Dame Sally Davies, Dr Richard Pan, Prof Liz Corbett and Prof Adithya Cattamanchi (via Crick website - password "crick")

8.45-9.15am	Registration and coffee
9.15-9.25am	Welcome address Prof Baron Peter Piot (LSHTM)
9.25-9.50am	Lancet Commission on TB Dr Eric Goosby (UCSF and UN Special Envoy on Tuberculosis) Video address Dr Nimalan Arinaminpathy (Imperial College) From global to national priorities: mathematical modelling in support of the Lancet Commission on TB
9.50-10.30am	Session 1: Antimicrobial resistance Prof Taane Clark (LSHTM) What can whole genome sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis tell us? Dr Claudio Köser (University of Cambridge) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it’. Defining susceptibility and resistance to anti-TB drugs.
10.30-11.00am	Coffee and networking break
11.00am-12:00pm	Session 2: TB pathophysiology & diagnostic biomarkers Dr Myrsini Kaforou (Imperial College) Host RNA biomarkers for TB: challenges and future directions Dr Rishi Gupta (UCL) Predicting incident tuberculosis: Can the transcriptome supplant the T-cell response? Dr Susanne Herbst (Francis Crick Institute) The role of the Parkinson's Disease kinase LRRK2 in innate immune responses to M. tuberculosis
12.00-1.15pm	Lunch break
1.15-1.55pm	Session 3: Vaccines and clinical trials Prof Robert Wilkinson (Imperial College and Francis Crick Institute) Vaccination against tuberculosis Dr Molebogeng X. Rangaka (UCL) TB preventive therapy: gaps and opportunities in the programmatic management of latent TB infection
1.55-3.00pm	Session 4: Determinants of mortality Dr Pete Dodd (Sheffield) Estimating the burden of TB deaths in low-resource settings lacking vital registration Dr Peter MacPherson (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) Spatial epidemiology of TB notifications and mortality in Blantyre, Malawi Dr Delia Boccia (LSHTM) Addressing Tuberculosis mortality: the role of cash transfers interventions Ms Debora Pedrazzoli (LSHTM) Trends and risk factors for death excess all-cause mortality among notified tuberculosis cases in the UK: an analysis of surveillance data (presentation given by Dr Lucy Thomas, PHE, in Ms Pedrazzoli's absence)
3.00-3.30pm	Coffee and networking break
3.30-3.45pm	Welcome to UCSF and summary of the Hanoi symposium Dr Bob Wachter (UCSF) Dr Payam Nahid (UCSF) Dr Nguyen Viet Nhung (Vietnam National Lung Hospital and NTP)
3.45-4.00pm	Address: TB and the antimicrobial resistance agenda Prof Dame Sally Davies (UK Department of Health & Social Care) TB and the Antimicrobial Resistance Agenda
4.00-4.30pm	Keynote address Dr Richard Pan (California State Senator)
4.30-5.25pm	Debate: Make TB prevention great again! This house believes treatment of LTBI should not be a high priority for low resource settings Prof Liz Corbett (LSHTM) In favour Prof Adithya Cattamanchi (UCSF) Against
5.25-7.00pm	Final thanks and handover to UCSF, followed by drinks reception