The Tuberculosis Pandemic – A Call to Action
Science, Application, Politics
Swiss TPH Hybrid Symposium
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21-22 March 2023
Kreuzstrasse 2, 4123 Allschwil, Switzerland
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Despite being a preventable and curable disease, 1.5 million people die from TB each year. To re-awake public awareness, spark the global response and drive policy change, Swiss TPH organizes a symposium in spring 2023 dedicated to TB research. Topics will include:
- State of the TB pandemic
- Latest on basic and applied science
- Health system issues
- The poverty connection
- How decision makers can support progress
Information
08:30 | Registration (8:55 virtual check-in) |
Moderators: Sonia Borrell and Christian Auer, Swiss TPH | |
09:00 | Welcome Jürg Utzinger, Director, Swiss TPH |
09:05 | Introductory Remarks, Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland (remote) |
09:10 | TB in the World Today: Update on the Epidemic and Progress in the Response, Matteo Zignol, Director a.i., Global TB Programme, WHO, Switzerland (remote) |
09:50 | The Burden of TB: DALYs, Socioeconomic Consequences, Stigma, Christian Auer, Swiss TPH |
10:20 | Break (15 minutes) |
10:35 | Community Perspective, Rhea Lobo, TB survivor and Board Member (Community Delegation) of the Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland (remote) |
10:45 | Why Social Protection is Essential to End TB, Delia Boccia, WHO Consultant, Switzerland (remote) |
11:15 | TB Advocacy, Stijn Deborggraeve, Médecins Sans Frontières, The Netherlands, and Austin Arinze Obiefuna, Afro Global Alliance and Stop TB Partnership Board, Ghana |
11:35 | Global Plan to End TB – How Can We End TB and How Much it Will Cost, Lucica Ditiu, Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland (remote), and Peter Sands, Executive Director, the Global Fund, Switzerland (remote) |
12:05 | The TB Caucus: Its Mission, Nick Herbert, Co-Chair, TB Caucus and Member of UK Parliament (video), and Alesia Matusevych, TB Caucus, Portugal (remote) |
12:25 | The TB Caucus – a European Perspective, Tina Rudolph, Member of German Parliament (remote) |
12:45 | Reaction from a Swiss Politician, the UNION and WHO, Eva Herzog, Member of Swiss Parliament, Switzerland, Kobto Ghislain Koura, Director TB Department, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France (remote); Tereza Kasaeva, Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, WHO (remote) |
13:05 | Lunch Break (55 minutes) |
Moderator: Tiffany Bouchery, Swiss TPH
14:00 | Revisiting the Natural History of Tuberculosis. Why does it Matter? Alberto García-Basteiro, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Mozambique and Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Spain |
14:30 | Ecology and Evolution of MDR-TB, Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH |
15:00 | Advances in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Genomics to Inform TB Control, Iñaki Comas, Tuberculosis Genomics Unit, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain |
15:30 | Coffee Break (20 minutes) |
15:50 | Dissecting Immune Responses along the Spectrum of Tuberculosis ex vivo in a Human 3D Granuloma Model, Damien Portevin, Swiss TPH |
16:20 | Immunity to Tuberculosis: Re-evaluating What We Think We Know, Carolyn King, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland |
16:50 | TB Basic Biology: the Pathogen, Margarida Saraiva, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal |
17:20 | TB and Diabetes, Dorothy Yebuoah-Manu, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana (remote) |
17:50 | End of Day 1 |
Moderator: Claudia Daubenberger, Swiss TPH
08:40 | Check-in and Welcome (8:55 Virtual Check-in) |
09:00 | TB Diagnostics: Newer Tools and Outlook, Adam Penn-Nicholson, FIND, Switzerland |
09:30 | Active Case Finding, Community Screening, Klaus Reither, Swiss TPH |
10:00 | Prevention is better than Cure: Development of More Effective TB Vaccines, Tom Scriba, University of Cape Town, South Africa (remote) |
10:30 | Coffee Break (30 minutes) |
11:00 | The Emerging Phenotype of Ancestral Tuberculosis, Bouke de Jong, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium |
11:30 | The Current TB Drug Trial Landscape and the Need for Capacity Development, Nestani Tukvadze, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Georgia |
12:00 | Paediatric TB: Doing More with Less, Nicole Ritz, Children’s Hospital Lucerne and University Children’s Hospital Basel, Switzerland |
12:30 | Lunch Break (1 hour) |
Moderator: Astrid Knoblauch and Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Swiss TPH
13:30 | TB Treatment and Drug Development – the Value of Cohort Studies, Jerry Hella, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania (remote) |
14:00 | Responding to Rapidly Changing HIV and Tuberculosis Epidemiology in Africa, Peter McPherson, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK |
14:30 | Host Specificity in Human and Animal Tuberculosis through the Lens of Genomics, Daniela Brites, Swiss TPH |
15:00 | Coffee Break (20 minutes) |
15:20 | TB in Prisons, Jason Andrews, Stanford Medicine, USA (remote) |
15:50 | Addressing the intersection between Gender and Social Determinants to End TB, Bertie Squire, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK (remote); Chukwuebuka Ugwu, Zankli Research Centre, Bingham University, Nigeria (remote) |
16:20 | Strengthened Health Care Systems for Ending TB, Annabel Baddeley, WHO, Switzerland (remote) |
16:50 | General Discussion and Wrap-up, Marcel Tanner, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences; Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH |
17:15 | End of Symposium |
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Lucica Ditui
Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership
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Jürg Utzinger
Director, Swiss TPH
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Stijn Deborggraeve
Diagnostics Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières
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Tereza Kasaeva
Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, World Health Organization, Switzerland
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Tina Rudolph
Member of German Parliament
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Alberto Lopez García-Basteiro
Associate Research Professor, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Mozambique
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Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH
Head of Department, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH
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Margarida Saraiva
Group Leader, Infection, Immunity and Regeneration, i3S- University of Porto
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Adam Penn-Nicholson
Deputy Director of TB, Medical Affairs, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics
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Nestani Tukvadze
Director, TB Clinical Research Unit, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Georgia
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Peter MacPherson
Professor of Global Public Health, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK
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Daniela Brites
Scientific Project Leader, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH
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Chukwuebuka Ugwu
Early Career Researcher, Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
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Matteo Zignol
Director a.i., Global TB Programme, World Health Organization
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Rhea Lobo
TB survivor and Board Member, Stop TB Partnership
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Austin Arinze Obiefuna
Afro Global Alliance and Stop TB Partnership Board
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Nick Herbert
Co-Chair, TB Caucus and Member of UK Parliament
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Kobto Koura
Director TB, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France
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Iñaki Comas
Principal Investigator, Tuberculosis Genomics Unit, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain
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Marcel Tanner
President, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences; Director emeritus and Hon. President R. Geigy Foundation
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Damien Portevin
Group Leader, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH
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Dorothy Yebuoah-Manu
Director, Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana
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Klaus Reither
Head of Clinical Research Unit, Medicine, Swiss TPH
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Bouke de Jong
Head of Mycobacteriology Unit, Biomedical Science Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
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Jerry Hella
Deputy Head of Department, Interventions and Clinical Trials, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania
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Jason Andrews
Associate Professor, Medicine, Stanford University, USA
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Eva Herzog
Member of Swiss Parliament
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Delia Boccia
Consultant, Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization
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Peter Sands
Executive Director, the Global Fund
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Alesia Matusevych
Regional Europe and Central Asia Regional Manager, Global TB Caucus, Portugal
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Christian Auer
Public Health Specialist and Epidemiologist, Swiss Centre for International health, Swiss TPH
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Sonia Borrell
Project Leader, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH
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Carolyn King
Scientist, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
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Tiffany Bouchery
Assistant Professor, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH
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Thomas Scriba
Deputy Director, SATVI, Pathology, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Nicole Ritz
Head of Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Lucerne and University Children’s Hospital Basel
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Claudia Daubenberger
Unit Head, Clinical Immunology, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH
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Bertie Squire
Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK
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Xavier Bosch-Capblanch
Project Leader, Public Health, Swiss Center for Intrernational Health, Swiss TPH
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Astrid Knoblauch
Project Manager, Diseases and Programmes, Health Impact Assessment, Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss TPH
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Annabel Baddeley
Technical Officer, World Health Organization, Switzerland