In our latest paper in @plosmedicine.org, we explore trade-offs in diagnostic algorithm, coverage, and duration of community screening for #TB, highlighting the importance of symptom-agnostic approaches and the need for strategies to sustain impact when screening ends. plos.io/4tuD2SM

PLOS Medicine@plosmedicine.org · 4mo ago

In this mathematical modelling study, Katherine Horton & co assess #TB community screening approaches & their estimated effects on TB incidence & mortality, concluding that methods that capture both infectious & non-infectious TB are needed to achieve sustained case reductions🧪 plos.io/4tuD2SM

Great to see this work led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social with @lightontb.bsky.social in @commsmed.nature.com. Further evidence that addressing gender disparities in TB burden and care are necessary for both an equitable response *and* an effective response. ⬇️

Peter MacPherson@petermacp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New study led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social. Reducing men’s TB risk and improving treatment access could have big impacts on #TB incidence and deaths for men, women, and children. www.nature.com/articles/s43... @kchorton.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @lightontb.bsky.social

A year after my last day with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social my work on modelling the impact of increasing men's access to care and reducing excess risk of TB has gone live @commsmed.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The LIGHT Consortium @lightontb.bsky.social · 4mo ago

What if targeting TB in men could benefit entire populations? This new modelling study from @alexandra-richards.bsky.social suggests exactly that 👇 ✔️ More treatment coverage ✔️ Address social & structural risks 👉 Big reductions in TB incidence & mortality 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

In this modeling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries 🧪 #MedSky #TB plos.io/4ryyBFX

The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study

In a modelling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income ...

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I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it

I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.

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Our photos are telling a story are at a display at the #2025UnionConference #CommunityConnect, Bella Centre Balcony 3. 📷 Our photography exhibition features work that we have conducted using the photovoice study method. Learn more: light.lstmed.ac.uk/research-2

TODAY! Innovation from Nigeria at the Union Conference! #WCLH2025 Nathan Zoakah presents an e-poster on how community-based initiatives improved TB knowledge and attitudes in Nasarawa — using machine learning to assess impact. #TB #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth #Nigeria @zanklic.bsky.social

Is TB more common in cities or rural areas? New analysis presented by Seyed Alireza Mortazavi at #WCLH2025 today! • Urban > Rural in Africa • Rural > Urban in Western Pacific • Similar elsewhere 2.3 million participants 26 countries using a Bayesian model fitted to WHO data. 🤝 by @LIGHTonTB

All are welcome to join the Gender Equity in TB Working Group today at 12:30 in Room B4B @theunion.org! We'll share updates on working group activities and host a panel discussion on progress to date and ways forward to ensure an equitable and inclusive #TB response.

💬 Can community-wide TB screening help bend the curve in Uganda? Today at #WCLH2025, @alexandra-richards.bsky.social presents modelling on Uganda’s twice-yearly active case-finding campaigns. The work suggests these community efforts are meaningfully reducing #TB incidence and mortality.

At the World Conference on Lung Health in Copenhagen, @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social apologized on behalf of his country (USA) for the aid cuts that are devastating “On behalf of my country, I am sorry and also that I am ashamed. It seems small minded but that’s because it is small minded”

Day 1: the LIGHT Annual Consortium meeting kicks off this morning at the Crown Plaza in Copenhagen. Consortium partners from Nigeria, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and the UK meet to discuss the key research findings, research uptake and impact so far.

Sobering study on the devastating impact of aid cuts on tuberculosis incidence and mortality in low and middle income countries Governments of highest TB burden nations will need to wake up and invest more! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

We estimate substantial potential impacts on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality due to reductions in international donor funding. Expanded support from domestic and international donors is essential...

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Reduced international donor funding through not only the termination of #USAID, but also announced reductions in donor pledges to #TheGlobalFund from other countries, could lead to substantial potential impacts on #TB morbidity and mortality. Read how in our new study in @lancetgh.bsky.social 👇

Katherine Horton@kchorton.bsky.social · last yr.

Our work estimating the potential impacts of reductions in international donor funding for #TB is now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social: bit.ly/3TDl28T @raclark18.bsky.social @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @alexandra-richards.bsky.social @top-j.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social

Our work estimating the potential impacts of reductions in international donor funding for #TB is now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social: bit.ly/3TDl28T @raclark18.bsky.social @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @alexandra-richards.bsky.social @top-j.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

We estimate substantial potential impacts on tuberculosis morbidity and mortality due to reductions in international donor funding. Expanded support from domestic and international donors is essential...

bit.ly

Katherine Horton@kchorton.bsky.social · last yr.

#Tuberculosis prevention and care relies heavily on international donor funding in many settings. In our latest preprint, we examine the potential impact of reductions in international donor funding for #TB - by the US and by other major donor countries. 1/8 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

In meta analysis of data from nearly half a million people, we found that men have higher M. #tuberculosis immunoreactivity risk than women. Likely to be key driver of sex differences in global tuberculosis morbidity & mortality @hannahrickman.bsky.social 🛟🧪 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

World report on social determinants of health equity by the @who.int "Conclusion: Equity is a political choice" ⬇️ This is a timely impressive report in both its breadth & depth 👏 iris.who.int/bitstream/ha...

#Tuberculosis prevention and care relies heavily on international donor funding in many settings. In our latest preprint, we examine the potential impact of reductions in international donor funding for #TB - by the US and by other major donor countries. 1/8 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries

Background Tuberculosis services in many settings rely heavily on international donor funding. In 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was dismantled, and other countri...

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Climate-driven migration and displacement and their potential impact on TB in Latin America gh.bmj.com/content/10/4... @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

Tuberculosis and the climate crisis in Latin America: a predicament of poverty, migration and displacement

Tuberculosis (TB) has long been associated with poverty and displacement, through food insecurity, overcrowding, poor living conditions and reduced access to healthcare, which significantly increase t...

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New pre-print modelling impact of US funding cuts on HIV, #TB, MCH and family planning. We estimate impact of termination of US funding to NTPs via #USAID & The Global Fund may lead to 2.2 (1.5-2.9) million excess TB deaths between 2025 and 2040, reversing over a decade of progress. bit.ly/4lowp18

Our latest pre-print led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social shows that improving #TB treatment coverage among men to the level achieved among women could reduce morbidity and mortality in men, women, and children. Further evidence of the need for gender-responsive TB prevention and care!

Peter MacPherson@petermacp.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social & @kchorton.bsky.social from @lightontb.bsky.social Eliminating men’s excess risks for #TB & improving access to treatment to comparable rates to women could have major gains for men, women & children. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Great to be able to finally get this work out, closing out my time with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

Peter MacPherson@petermacp.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint led by @alexandra-richards.bsky.social & @kchorton.bsky.social from @lightontb.bsky.social Eliminating men’s excess risks for #TB & improving access to treatment to comparable rates to women could have major gains for men, women & children. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

A year ago, I was tasked with creating a timeline for @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social and we came across this amazing example of a way to keep track of a group with a long history. We now have a record of our history going back to 2011, and I hope that this can stay alive and continuously updated as well!

Janet E. Hill, PhD@hilllabsask.bsky.social · 2y ago

Time for the annual update of my lab Gantt chart. If you haven't started one, I highly recommend. Students see themselves in the context of lab history and I get a very useful memory aid!

Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy, an essay by me adapted from my book Everything Is Tuberculosis. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Trump Is Ceding Ground to a Deadly Enemy

By retracting foreign aid, the president could make tuberculosis untreatable again.

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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...

The advert is now live here: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-202... Until August 2027 we would be working on data analysis and modelling to try and untangle the dynamics of #AMR by age and sex exploring electronic health records 🧫📑👩‍💻. Get in touch if any questions!

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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Gwen Knight@gmknght.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m hiring! watch this space for a 2yr position on modelling and data analysis to determine how #AMR varies by age and sex @lshtm.bsky.social

I’m hiring! watch this space for a 2yr position on modelling and data analysis to determine how #AMR varies by age and sex @lshtm.bsky.social

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...

Within-country heterogeneity in patterns of social contact relevant for tuberculosis infection transmission, prevention, and care

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) transmission is driven by variable social, environmental, and biological factors, including the number and duration of indoor contacts. Social contact data can provide...

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