Tuberculosis Centre
of Research Excellence
CXR is a major tool to support diagnosis of TB in children and yet interpretation especially in young children can be difficult, especially for primary and secondary facility level health workers who have had no or very limited training. CXR findings are now also very relevant to determine treatment duration for clinically diagnosed drug-susceptible or drug-resistant TB in children as CXR findings are central to determining severity of disease.
The Diagnostic CXR Atlas for Tuberculosis in Children is a Union initiative which has been translated into the following languages: Bahasa Indonesia, Chinese, Mongolian and Vietnamese.
WHO's report on comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the TB.
Helpful reference to justify the importance of TB vaccine development with number of messages for grant applications
The Roadmap towards ending TB in children and adolescents, along with partners and civil society, outlines a to improve the prevention, treatment, and care of TB in children and adolescents.
TB genomic epidemiology
Dr Ella Meumann is an infectious diseases physician at Royal Darwin Hospital and a PhD candidate at Menzies School of Health Research and Charles Darwin University. Her research is on the application of genomic sequencing to infectious disease epidemiology in the Top End of the Northern Territory and includes work on tuberculosis, melioidosis and Acinetobacter baumannii.
Working in the public health space and WHO consultancy
Dr Chris Lowbridge presents a session on his experiences as a TB researcher working in the public health space and WHO consultancy. This Session discussess what you can expect, as well as how to approach these positions.
You can sign up for mentoring to help you with your career planing here.
Image from original Nature survey (here)
Career planning for Post-Docs
Dr Diana Quan presents Nature’s inaugural survey of postdocs in academia worldwide and discusses the data indicating a pervasive sense of instability. The TB-CRE ECR group and Professor Warwick Britton discuss their own experiences with career planning within Academia, and what we can do to achieve success and decide what that means for us personally.
You can sign up for mentoring to help you with your career planing here.