A virtual centre focused on social science TB research and innovation.
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‼️Inviting #TB scholars, students and advocates to find us on Bluesky, Linkedin, and on the #SSHIFTB website!
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Social Science & Health Innovation for TB retweeted
Happening right now: Highlights from NAR – Reframing Directly Observed Treatment
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
10:30 am - 1:00 pm (Pacific Time) (1:30-4:00pm Eastern Time)
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#tb @StopTBUSA @TBFighters @realTBpeople @TBECoalition
Join over 400 attendees now! "Reframing Directly Observed Treatment" @TheUnion_TBLH @UCSF ucsf.zoom.us/j/94018665760?p…
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"To protect PWTB from financial insecurity, it is imperative to strengthen the referral protocol among public and private health sectors, increase awareness regarding free TB diagnosis and treatment to the general population." 🇮🇩
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Check out these postdoctoral (and PhD!) opportunities at @Sydney_Uni's TB Centre of Research Excellence, including a chance to work with @sarah_bernays on community-engaged implementation science projects
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Deadline: April 30
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We hosted our first-ever hackathon in Geneva, focused on ending #TB stigma. For two days, participants including #TB survivors, community leaders, and private sector innovators worked together to create fresh impactful solutions to combat #TB stigma, which remains a major ..
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Happening now! Join to hear @ashna_ashesh @jonathanjstillo @HeleneMarivdW #StephenMolldrem #FaithMugodi @sshiftb @nc_engel @jerrychikovore #WorldTBDay2025
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March 24 is #WorldTBDay2025 Day to raise awareness and push forward on investments, commitments and health care delivery to #endTB. Please join us for this webinar on Tue! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Wishing all people and communities affected by TB well. @sshiftb @nc_engel
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‼️Join our upcoming hour-long online #WorldTBDay event on Tuesday March 25 at 8:00am EST / 1:00pm CET.
This year’s World TB day theme ‘Yes! We Can End #TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver’, is a bold call for hope, urgency, and accountability.
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@DaftaryAmrita advocating for addressing TB in women this #WorldTBDay with medical and nursing students and faculty @ufrj with #AneteTrajman @DIGHR_YorkU @YorkUnews @YUGlobalHealth #TBWomen
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This #WorldTBDay, @ResultsCda volunteers are lighting up OVER 52 monuments across 🇨🇦 in red to raise awareness of TB, the world's deadliest infectious disease ‼️
ARE YOU IN ONTARIO? Fuel their fight to #EndTB by visiting a spot near you on March 24th!
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‼️Join our upcoming hour-long online #WorldTBDay event on Tuesday March 25 at 8:00am EST / 1:00pm CET.
This year’s World TB day theme ‘Yes! We Can End #TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver’, is a bold call for hope, urgency, and accountability.
🔗 sshiftb.org/events/sshiftb-2…
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Prof @DaftaryAmrita and PhD student @Yuliya_Chorna (@YorkUAnth) publish with @TBECoalition on multisectoral accountability and action to address the TB epidemics in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Ukraine
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‼️Join our upcoming hour-long online #WorldTBDay event on Tuesday March 25 at 8:00am EST / 1:00pm CET.
This year’s World TB day theme ‘Yes! We Can End #TB: Commit, Invest, Deliver’, is a bold call for hope, urgency, and accountability.
🔗 sshiftb.org/events/sshiftb-2…
Are you interested in applying Qualitative Methods to infectious disease research?
@McGillGHP
#SSHIFTB co-founders @DaftaryAmrita + Nora Engel to lead course on the rigorous application of qual methods for infectious disease in global settings
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Attention Toronto TB social scientists/enthusiasts:
Join Prof. Michael Bresalier at @YorkUniversity @YorkU_HESO to examine a "Post-Colonial History of Selective BCG Vaccination in Britain"
Happy International Women's Day!
This years theme is "For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment"
Read more below:
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‼️The #SSHIFTB March 2025 newsletter is live
🔹INTERVIEW: Dismantling the Dogma of DOT with @BrianCitro
🔹@blessi_k reflects on the crisis following the #USAID stop-work order
🔹Peruse the latest #TB social sci publications, events, and more
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Social Science & Health Innovation for TB retweeted
Exciting to see the momentum on #WorldTBDay2025 grow! @sshiftb
🚨 #Alert - #WorldTBDay2025 toolkit is out! To know more about what's new this year and the exciting #PhotoContest, click here: mailchi.mp/stoptb.org/world-…
▶️Click to access the toolkit: stoptb.international/WTBD202…
#YesWeCanEndTB #CommitInvestDeliver #EndTB
#SSHIFTB contributor @DrTomWingfield, an expert in TB and social medicine at the UK's @LSHTM_TB , expresses that "it is hard to underplay the impact of the decision to dismantle USAID"
Experts warn of threat to global health as US freezes overseas aid bbc.in/4hsJCDP