Associate Professor Nicolas Alan Menzies, from the School of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, joins Dr Andrew Burke to discuss his research on the contribution of post-TB sequelae to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years lost due to TB disease in the United States. Drawing on data from both U.S. and Brazilian cohorts, he explores how a significant portion of TB’s health burden, including elevated mortality and reduced...
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Associate Professor Nicolas Alan Menzies, from the School of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, joins Dr Andrew Burke to discuss his research on the contribution of post-TB sequelae to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years lost due to TB disease in the United States. Drawing on data from both U.S. and Brazilian cohorts, he explores how a significant portion of TB’s health burden, including elevated mortality and reduced...
Tuberculosis Nursing Challenges in Australia's Northern Territory with Dr Chris Lowbridge
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Tuberculosis Nursing Challenges in Australia's Northern Territory with Dr Chris Lowbridge
Today we speak with Dr Chris Lowbridge about the amazing work of the TB teams in the Northern Territory. Chris talks about the challenges of controlling tuberculosis across 1.42 million square kilometres, more than 100 local languages, and some very isolated communities.ReferencesMeumann, Ella M., et al. "Tuberculosis in Australia's tropical north: a population-based genomic epidemiological study." The Lancet Regional Health–Western Pacific 15 (2021).Vigneswaran, Nilanthy, et al. "Factors lea...
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Associate Professor Nicolas Alan Menzies, from the School of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, joins Dr Andrew Burke to discuss his research on the contribution of post-TB sequelae to life-years and quality-adjusted life-years lost due to TB disease in the United States. Drawing on data from both U.S. and Brazilian cohorts, he explores how a significant portion of TB’s health burden, including elevated mortality and reduced...
