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Director: Dr Richard Menzies

The mission is to help end TB, within Canada and globally, by:

  1. Doing innovative, interdisciplinary research that could result in transformative new tools required to end TB globally
  2. Providing training & technical assistance that can support TB elimination within Canada and globally

What we do – specific research themes:

Fundamental mechanisms:

  • Host-pathogen interactions, innate immunity, vaccination models, latency

Diagnostic research:

  • Diagnosis of latent TB with new blood or skin tests
  • Diagnosis of active TB with urine or blood tests
  • Computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) of Xrays – using AI

Treatment research:

  • Drug-resistant TB – new drugs and new regimens – informing WHO and CDC guidelines for over a decade
  • Latent TB – randomized trials in new regimens, and management/scale-up

Operational/implementation research:

  • Case finding, community engagement
Geographies
Global

People

FounderSocial Science & Health Innovation for TuberculosisAssociate ProfessorAthena InstituteVrije Universiteit Amsterdam

FounderSocial Science & Health Innovation for TuberculosisAssociate ProfessorSchool of Global Health, Dahdaleh Institute of Global Health ResearchYork UniversityCAPRISA Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa

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