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Nancy is post-doctoral TB research fellow with a strong interests in qualitative methods, patient education, health equity, and implementation science. Nancy completed her PhD from the Universtiy of Calgary in 2022 and has experience working as a TB nurse (15 years), a clinical trials project manager (7 years) and a knowledge translation project manager (1 year). Nancy is based in Canada and currently working under the supervision of Dr. Dick Menzies and Dr. Amrita Daftary. She is working on collaborative, international projects with the McGill International TB Research Centre, the Dahdaleh School of Global Health, the Tuberculosis Trials Consortium, and the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation. She initiated and is facilitating the SSHIFTB Social Science TB Journal Club.

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Journal Club

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Focus groups were conducted to support the co-development of a person-centred stigma intervention with TB-affected community members and health workers in South Africa.

This month's article will be presented by Dr Alanna Bergman, a nurse practitioner and post-doctoral research fellow in the Office of Nursing Research, University of Virginia

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Dr. Nancy Bedingfield will discuss SSHIFTB contributors’ paper:  

Stillo J. Connecting the DOTS: Should we still be doing directly observed therapy? Human Organization. 2024.Jan 2; 83(1). 18 – 30; https://doi.org/10.1080/00187259.2023.2286173

There is also an optional companion commentary, Koch E & Versfeld A. Quiet complicity: Anthropologists and the medicalization of TB, Human Organization. 2014, 83(1), 3-6.

Abstract can be accessed here

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Join us for our next Journal Club session happening on June 11 at 10am ET/ 4pm SAST/4pm CEST.

We will be discussing the following article below co-written by SSHIFTB founder Nora Engel:

James R, Theron G, Cobelens F, Engel N. Framing the detection of incipient tuberculosis infection: A qualitative study of political prioritisation. Tropical Medicine & International Health. 2022 Apr;27(4):445-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/tmi.13734


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