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Ellen MH Mitchell
@emhmitchell.bsky.social
Thinking about TB, air, C02, public health, epi, transmission, frugal diagnostics, discrimination, stigma, measurement, social and reproductive justice, politics, and ultimate. Opinions my own.
Dr. Cuella Martin & Co show that clustering of MDR-TB in urban Rwanda isn't just ascertainment bias. Using google data we show it is about crowding & social contact.
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US State Department Restores Some Global Health Aid - But more is needed. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/h...
U.S. Restores Some Vaccine and Health Aid to Unicef, Gavi and World Food Programme
The amount is still far below what the U.S. spent previously on humanitarian and health aid, but resumes the flow of money for key efforts to fight malnutrition and disease.
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Obrigada, INS 🇲🇿pelo convite para falar sobre a epidemiologia da 🧪escassez de expectoração e o que podemos fazer para realizar exames de detecção da tuberculose🫁
Belgian diamond group that won tariff relief gifted Trump a lavishly encrusted ring apnews.com/article/antw...
Epic Facepalm
ALT: Epic Facepalm
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#Episky #TB #EPI Know a great pediatric public health researcher for ITM?? www.itg.be/en/jobs-and-...
Professor of Child and Adolescent Health
The Institute of Tropical Medicine (ITM) strives to advance science and health for all, through innovative research, advanced education, capacit...
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Great Job Welile & Anna defining the who, where, when of sputum scarcity doi.org/10.1016/j.ec... #Tuberculosis #Gender #Episky @sshiftb.bsky.social
Dr. Nlula's MPH TB thesis is out. She would be a great PhD student... dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Determinants of tuberculosis presentation and successful treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients in Geita, Tanzania
The Geita Region of Tanzania is known as critical focal point for tuberculosis (TB) control due to its persistently high disease burden and unique socio-economic landscape. Despite this, limited resea...
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@itmantwerp.bsky.social welcomes your abstracts for: www.colloq2026.be "Health in Motion: Infectious Diseases on the Move" in Addis. 🇪🇹 due: 19 May 2026.
ITM Colloquium 2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Official Website
Save the date: 66th ITM Colloquium 'Health in Motion: Infectious Diseases on the Move' taking place 15-17/11/2026 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Massachusetts Public Health: using legal tools to keep science as the basis for vax recs: www.idsociety.org/news--public...
Federal Judge Blocks Immunization Schedule Changes, Stays ACIP Member Appointments
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The March 2026 #SSHIFTB Newsletter is live! In this edition, we share the latest resources, opportunities, and events in the TB social science world: 🔹 Our upcoming World TB Day Webinar on Zoom (registration required) 🔹 Advice for qualitative researchers in the TB field mailchi.mp/sshiftb.org/...
SSHIFTB March 2026 Newsletter
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Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award: Optimising interventions for impact wellcome.org//research-fu...
Infectious Disease Clinical Trial Award: Optimising interventions for impact - Funding | Wellcome
Funding call supporting transdisciplinary teams led from Africa, South Asia or South-East Asia to conduct clinical trials that optimise licensed pharmaceutical interventions for infectious diseases.
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#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #pulmsky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky #neuroskyence #neurosci #PainResearch 🧪🛟 🫁💊
Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 8mo agoBREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
Good to be mindful of how much clinically DX TB is too much. Menzies et al. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/g...
TB or not TB? That is the question
A new study in "Nature Medicine" estimates that 2 million people are incorrectly told they have tuberculosis each year — and clinicians miss diagnosing TB in 1 million people. Why so many misdiagnoses...
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Last chance to submit your abstract for the 3rd Conference on Innovations in Tuberculosis! Join us in Tanzania and be part of the scientific exchange regarding clinically relevant advances in #Tuberculosis. 🗓 Deadline: 𝟭𝟯 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 🔗 amededu.co/4iJVMcP
Cool TB awards! Trialing the Lung Flute ECO in 5 new studies! #Tuberculosis/TB #EpiSky @itmantwerp.bsky.social 🫁 www.ghitfund.org/newsroom/pre...
Total Investment of... | GHIT Fund | Global Health Innovative Technology Fund
Press Release: Total Investment of... GHIT Fund(Global Health Innovative Technology Fund)
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#TBSky -Cool new leprosy test shows how Leprosy PEP and ACF are consequential dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
Large-scale field application of a fingerstick blood test for Mycobacterium leprae infection: Monitoring population-wide effects of case finding and post-exposure prophylaxis on transmission in the Co...
Since 2018, the WHO recommends provision of single-dose rifampicin post-exposure prophylaxis (SDR-PEP) to contacts of leprosy patients. In the Post-ExpOsure Prophylaxis for LEprosy (PEOPLE) trial that...
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🔦Collections Spotlight🔦 Did you know that decommissioned Toronto street cars were once used to house Tuberculosis patients? This 1905 image shows the inside a converted street car at the Toronto Free Hosiptal for Consumptives. #Tuberculosis #histmed #Toronto #MuseumofHealthCare
🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity!🚨 Interested in researching how to improve risk prediction for people with #tuberculosis #TB and #multimorbidity? Joint project between @uofgshw.bsky.social 🏴 and @ki.se 🇸🇪, funded by UK MRC. Details here⬇️ www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - MRC DTP in Precision Medicine - Supervisors and Projects - Projects 2026 - Projects 26 - Peter MacPherson
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So much fun to learn about Outbreaks & Surveillance yesterday from these All-Stars @itmantwerp.bsky.social #TBSky #MPox #AMR #Arbovirus #airfilterforensics
#TBSky Great 🫁TB talks: @itmantwerp.bsky.social Access! Justice! Genomics! Transmission! Diagnostics! Y'All come: fs10.formsite.com/formulierenI...
Colloquium 2025 Registration_online possible
Register for the 65th ITM Colloquium.
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Shrestha: 4%TB prev in ppl w/DM in Nepal #NCDSky #TBSky doi.org/10.1186/s128...
Poor glycemic control among people with diabetes mellitus is associated with tuberculosis infection: a cross-sectional study in Nepal - BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) raises the risk of contracting Tuberculosis (TB) infection and progressing to TB disease. Screening people with diabetes for TB infection and offering preventive trea...
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Air quality & Autism Risk - Preliminary signal url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Prenatal Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter Components and Autism Risk in Childhood
This cohort study of births in a Canadian province examines whether higher prenatal exposures to fine particulate matter and its components are associated with risk of autism spectrum disorder.
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We are seeking a PhD student💡. 4-yrs 💶 for 🇲🇿 in locally co-designed #airborne infection control, #AMR surveillance in 🇿🇦 🇳🇬 Based in Maputo (FundacaoAurum) #TBSky #EpiSky @fvlscience.bsky.social Lusophone health/ lab w/ roots in 🇲🇿 #PublicHealth #EDCTP3 @itmantwerp.bsky.social Q: emitchell@itg.be
*Oportunidade de doutoramento em Ciências da Saúde* #TB #PhD #AMR #IPC projecto Tuberculosis Antimicrobial Stewardship Program (TASP), área de controle de infecções que em Moçambique c/ @fvlscience.bsky.social auruminstitute.org/what-we-do/a... @vuamsterdam.bsky.social @utoronto.ca
Aurum Mocambique
The Aurum Institute is a leading healthcare organisation that has been successfully battling the joint scourge of the HIV and TB for over 20 insightful years
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TB deaths up 5% in 6 months since USAID funds pulled from Napula, Mozambique: #USAID #TBsky #TBFighters #tuberculosis observador.pt/2025/09/24/t...
Tuberculose matou 71 pessoas na província moçambicana de Nampula em seis meses
As autoridades de saúde apontam a falta de financiamento como uma das causas do aumento da doença. Entre 2019 e 2024, do total de 108.242 casos notificados e tratados no país, 10.547 eram crianças.
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