March 2025
In this issue of our newsletter, we draw your attention to a SSHIFTB World TB Day...
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From time to time, we use this space to share updates. This includes opportunities relevant to TB and the social sciences, or alerts about new resources or upcoming events that may intrigue and inspire your work.
Exclusive Interview with Blessina Kumar: The Impact of the USAID Stop-Work order on a TB Community Organization
Impact of the USAID Stop-Work order on a TB Community Organization The USAID Stop-Work Order...
December 2024
In this issue of our newsletter, we highlight a new paper by SSHIFTB contributors, World...
August 2024 Newsletter
Explore an anthropological perspective of TB in rural India, learn about social science insights on...
Ask Author Anything (well, almost!): Andrew McDowell answers questions from his readers on Breathless
Each year in India more than two million people fall sick with tuberculosis (TB), an...
SSHIFTB and Several Collaborators Sponsor Fiery Debate on TB Stigma in Africa
SSHIFTB, along with several collaborators, sponsored a fiery debate at the South African TB Conference...
Social science perspectives at the Symposium on Emerging Resistance to Novel Tuberculosis Drugs, Columbia University
SSHIFTB contributors Jonathan Stillo, Boitumelo Seepamore, Sachin Atre, and Amrita Daftary contributed social science insights...
Building Social Equity and Person-Centred Innovation in the Global End TB Response
Tuberculosis (TB) prevails most in LMICs and socially marginalized groups in higher-income countries. Airborne transmission...
March 2024 Newsletter
Read an original commentary on qualitative evidence synthesis for TB, hear about SSHIFTB contributors and...
Qualitative Evidence Synthesis for TB
Evidence synthesis is an established set of scientific methods to assemble, appraise, and summarize research....
Stigma and mental health in infectious diseases—meet the guest editors
See the Q&A here. In this Q&A, Amrita Daftary and Jeremiah Chikovore, guest editors for...
October 2023 Newsletter
Watch interviews with photovoice researchers in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea, read an original commentary...
Thoughts on Losing Bedaquiline: Ellen M.H. Mitchell
Lately I have been thinking a lot about bedaquiline (BDQ). Not the drug exactly, but...
Advocacy and the social sciences
Written by Janika Hauser. Whether you call it advocacy or not, social science is key...