Infectious disease epidemiologist | TB mathematical modeller | Research Fellow @LSTHM | Associate Researcher @IMTAvH
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Alvaro Schwalb
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Today, I'll be presenting our work on estimating the global burden of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection at the Advanced TB Diagnostics course, part of the @mcgill.ca Summer Institutes in Global Health. I attended this course in 2019 and am very honoured to be among the speakers now!
⚕️ A recent @tb-lshtm.bsky.social modelling study found that 134 million people were living with a recent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection
Centre member @aschwalbc.bsky.social wrote about these findings & their implications
Read more 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
New publication now out in @lancetgh.bsky.social!
New #TB #vaccines are being trialled in older adolescents and adults, and we comment on the advantages and challenges of including younger adolescents who have historically been excluded.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Poverty is a major driver of TB.Conditional cash transfers combined with counselling improve pre-treatment loss to follow-up.In this economic analysis our modelling projections show that this intervention is cost-effective and can reduce incidence and mortality.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We are living in the weirdest timeline.
So...what would happen to the global TB epidemic if we "eliminated" undernutrition? Our paper out now @lancetgh.bsky.social, where we combined estimates from our review (doi.org/10.1093/ije/...) with population-specific BMI distributions to find out...(www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...)
Out now! Our preprint reviewing effects of extreme weather events on TB.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@mjsaunder.bsky.social with Lauren Linde & Leo Martinez @bostonu.bsky.social & many others @tb-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @lshtm-planet.bsky.social
Also, as a fun (?) fact, during that trip, I had a small accident in the flat I was staying in and lost a tooth, so in a way, I left a part of me in Montreal. 🤷♂️
Tuberculosis (TB) disproportionately affects low-income populations due to socioeconomic barriers. Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are promising str…
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The infant tuberculosis vaccine, BCG, prevents severe tuberculosis disease, but protection
is rarely durable beyond childhood. New tuberculosis vaccines are being developed
for the prevention of infec...
