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The Union and ATS are organizing a webinar series to discuss if the ambitious goals outlined in the WHO End TB Strategy and reinforced by the commitments made at the UN High Level meeting on TB in September 2018 to eliminate TB are, in fact, possible. Prior to the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic, the TB response was falling behind the necessary timeline but in the last year the impact of the COVID-19 on the TB response has set back fight against TB by over a decade, to 2008 levels. This webinar series will examine if TB Elimination is still a relevant goal and if it can be achieved by 2030, as per the WHO End TB strategy and what will be needed to make it happen. This webinar series is being offered free of charge, but donations to either or both organizations are welcomed.

[post_title] => The Union/ATS webinar: TB Elimination - Why Not Now? Session 1 [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => the-union-ats-webinar-tb-elimination-why-not-now-session-1 [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-05-21 12:09:37 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-05-21 16:09:37 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://sshiftb.org/?post_type=updates&p=1590 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => updates [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [2] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1489 [post_author] => 4 [post_date] => 2021-04-13 14:20:22 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-04-13 18:20:22 [post_content] => Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death across low- and middle-income countries. An epidemic entwined with social and economic circumstances, it is widely recognized that ending TB requires more than medical research and interventions. There are relatively few dedicated forums for social scientists engaged in TB research to share their experiences, showcase their results and learn together. This symposium provides the platform and opportunity to share results and lessons in addressing the TB epidemic in different countries and it will be the first step in building a global community of researchers who are seeking to understand the social dimensions of TB. Join us together with the ICMR - National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, India, to hear engaging speakers who have worked in diverse settings across the globe. Stay tuned for the agenda and the speakers! [post_title] => Leveraging social science in the global fight against Tuberculosis [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => leveraging-social-science-in-the-global-fight-against-tuberculosis [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-04-13 14:21:57 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-04-13 18:21:57 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://sshiftb.org/?post_type=updates&p=1489 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => updates [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [3] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1423 [post_author] => 5 [post_date] => 2021-03-24 01:05:54 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-03-24 05:05:54 [post_content] => To commemorate World TB Day 2021, Amrita Daftary will deliver a seminar to share news about a global initiative launched with funding from the Dahdaleh Institute to connect social science TB scholars, learners and advocates, and to introduce three students at York that she has engaged in TB research. The seminar is open to all, within and outside of the York community. The agenda is as follows: Amrita Daftary, PhD: Elevating the social science gaze on tuberculosis Nawang Yanga, MA candidate: A Comparative Analysis of Tuberculosis Policies and Programs in Tibetan Refugee Settlements in India and Indigenous Communities in Canada Rumia Owaisi & Laibah Hassan, BSc candidates: Exploring Video-Observed Therapy as a Patient-Centered Approach to Tuberculosis Care [post_title] => Elevating the social science gaze on tuberculosis [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => elevating-the-social-science-gaze-on-tuberculosis [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-03-24 01:05:55 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-03-24 05:05:55 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://sshiftb.org/?post_type=updates&p=1423 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => updates [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [4] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1328 [post_author] => 4 [post_date] => 2021-03-17 11:10:01 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-03-17 15:10:01 [post_content] => Join us for this webinar organized by Partners in Health Canada, Results Canada, and Stop TB Canada. Before the pandemic, tuberculosis (TB) was the world’s leading infectious disease killer, despite being both preventable and curable. COVID-19 and associated health system disruptions are proving to be devastating for people affected by TB. This World TB Day (March 24), join us for an open discussion with distinguished speakers who will share their valuable experience and insights on how we can work together to take meaningful, high-impact action to end both TB and COVID-19 once and for all. Register here. Topic: Together against TB: A World TB Day discussion on taking action to #endTB Speakers: Dr. Joia Mukherjee, Priya Amin, Tina Campbell Organizer: Results Canada, Partners in Health Canada, Stop TB Canada When: March 23, 2021 from 6-7:30 PM EST [post_title] => TOGETHER Against TB [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => together-against-tb [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-03-17 11:10:50 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-03-17 15:10:50 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => https://sshiftb.org/?post_type=updates&p=1328 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => updates [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [5] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1172 [post_author] => 4 [post_date] => 2021-02-23 13:37:28 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-02-23 18:37:28 [post_content] => Register here: https://forms.gle/Ru4rV28E3MJLGM4d6 Globally, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB in 2019, with women accounting for 32% of those affected. Though more men have TB, women are affected disproportionately. Women face greater stigma and discrimination due to TB than their male counterparts which can greatly exacerbate their social and economic insecurity. TB in women is responsible for increased illness and death in children. It has been associated with a six-fold increase in the risk of perinatal death and a doubling of premature birth and low birthweight. Evidence shows that TB increases the risk of HIV transmission from infected women to children. Women may also have less access to TB treatment and prevention services than men due to cultural norms and inequalities. A TB response that is gender-sensitive is imperative to tip the scale and achieve Health For All. More women in affected communities and women’s advocates need to be engaged in efforts to design and enhance access to TB services for women. TB prevention, diagnosis, and treatment should form core components of health interventions for women, particularly along their reproductive life cycle. This is vital, especially in high HIV and TB burden settings. This has also to be addressed for the LGBTQ+ community, the sex workers, women using drugs, and women with disabilities who have to go through additional stigma and discrimination in seeking healthcare. Human rights and equity challenges should be effectively addressed while rolling-out the End TB Strategy to ensure that socio-cultural barriers and stigma are effectively eliminated, providing women access to high-quality care, free of catastrophic costs and social repercussions. The WHO and GCTA are organizing a special #EndTB webinar to mark International Women’s Day under the theme #ChooseToChallenge. We need to challenge the current set-in-stone ways that impede a gender-sensitive equitable TB response and transition to a more multisectoral approach that enables universal access to care. What we need is a paradigm shift and this webinar is envisioned to be a starting point of that colossal shift. [post_title] => International Women’s Day Webinar 2021: Women #ChooseToChallenge A Gender Sensitive & Equitable Response to End TB [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => international-womens-day-webinar-2021-women-choosetochallenge-a-gender-sensitive-equitable-response-to-end-tb [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-03-11 14:18:58 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-03-11 19:18:58 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://sshiftb.org/?post_type=updates&p=1172 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => updates [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [6] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1152 [post_author] => 4 [post_date] => 2021-02-17 14:25:28 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-02-17 19:25:28 [post_content] => Register today: http://mcgill-idgh.ca/registration-information/ A course focused on the principles and rigorous application of qualitative methods in formative, operational, evaluation and policy research in infectious disease in diverse global settings.

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Qualitative methods can assess the social and behavioural contexts, and the complex determinants, impacts and outcomes of illness and disease control efforts, including public health programs, policies, and technologies. There is growing interest to integrate qualitative methods into traditional operational and biomedical research to understand challenges to healthcare seeking behaviour and healthcare service delivery, and to better understand how and why some interventions and technologies are successfully (or less successfully) implemented and utilized. This course will build participants’ research literacy to use qualitative methods to inform, innovate, contextualize, evaluate, and strengthen the delivery and utilization of healthcare services and technologies for infectious diseases (e.g., tuberculosis, HIV) in lower-and middle-income settings. The course utilizes case studies and practical exercises to engage learners in the following topics in qualitative research:

Study designs and methodologies
Theoretical frameworks
Focus groups, observation and interviews: designs, skills and implementation
Approaches and methods for analysis
Multiple methods: integrating and sequencing qualitative and quantitative methods
Sampling and participant recruitment
Data management and storage
Ethics and evaluation criteria
Dissemination

The course includes didactic expert lectures on qualitative study design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination, interactive group exercises to apply and practice the lessons learned, as well as short topical presentations and/or panel discussions. The 2021 virtual course will have synchronous (live) and asynchronous sessions. [post_title] => Qualitative Methods Postgraduate Course [post_excerpt] => [post_status] => publish [comment_status] => closed [ping_status] => closed [post_password] => [post_name] => qualitative-methods-postgraduate-course [to_ping] => [pinged] => [post_modified] => 2021-03-25 13:12:14 [post_modified_gmt] => 2021-03-25 17:12:14 [post_content_filtered] => [post_parent] => 0 [guid] => http://sshiftb.org/?post_type=updates&p=1152 [menu_order] => 0 [post_type] => updates [post_mime_type] => [comment_count] => 0 [filter] => raw ) [7] => WP_Post Object ( [ID] => 1151 [post_author] => 4 [post_date] => 2021-02-17 14:17:37 [post_date_gmt] => 2021-02-17 19:17:37 [post_content] => SSHIFTB had its foundational meeting just shy of World TB Day 2021, bringing together 25+ TB scholars and advocates from 15+ countries to inaugurate a virtual centre focussed on social science TB research.^† The mission of SSHIFTB is to enhance the visibility and impact of social science research and innovation in TB. The social sciences has few boundaries, and there already exist a multitude of organizations and centres undertaking tremendous impactful work in TB, some of which represents or naturally aligns with the social sciences. To distinguish SSHIFTB, create focus and add value for both a visitor and a contributor to the community, we resort to the traditional definition of social science research – that which borrows on the disciplines of anthropology, economics, geography, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, politics, psychology, and sociology, and its various sub-specialties. Further, while we borrow on, connect to and seek to inform other spheres of relevance such as TB advocacy, policy, programming and practice, the centre is primarily a space to host research-oriented thinking and action. The centre will function as a community of practice, dispensing away with geographic and institutional boundaries that could fragment the work we do. To create community, where we all feel a sense of belonging, meaningful solicitation and inclusion of all our voices is seen to be crucial. We accordingly present some of the ideas that were inspired by our first meeting below, as we develop a shared vision about the centre’s goals and potential outputs, and widen our reach to invite others to join. These ideas are based on our understandings of ongoing efforts in support of TB elimination – which we seek not to duplicate but complement – and a mindfulness to our resource base and various other commitments. They are:

To map social science TB research, in a process that includes identifying who we are and what we do, as a foundation upon which to reflect on gaps and draw inspiration.
To connect social science researchers, advocates and learners and facilitate exchanges of ideas, collaboration and integration of efforts.
To create a demand for social science evidence in TB research, policy and interventions, and develop an agenda on how gaps in TB elimination efforts may be addressed through meaningful investment into social science research and innovation.
To stimulate new thinking around social science TB work, and enhance the breadth and quality of such inquiry.
To support interdisciplinarity, that is, linkages within social science disciplines as well as connection to non-social science work.
To support intersectionality, that is, use TB as a case for broader social science inquiry (into inequity, neoliberalism, quality of care, cultural rights, antimicrobial resistance to name a few).
To support methodological innovation and operationalize such innovation in TB to critically address other health and social problems.
To engage community stakeholders, heighten patient voice and advocacy efforts, and problematize dominant narratives (patient centered care, antimicrobial stewardship to name a few)
To curate and synthesize social science evidence.
To mobilize action by translating social science evidence into the basis of TB interventions, moving from local to national to global.
To create teaching, training and mentorship opportunities for persons interested in social science TB research, and build exposure to non-traditional methods of social science inquiry.
To market the diversity of social science TB research and the impacts achieved to date, and work towards developing (new) collective outputs that can have synergistic impacts.

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Jun 30, 21 12:00 am

Fellowship Opportunity for PhDs in Social Behaviour Sciences Posted on May 27 2021

PhDs in Social Behavioural Sciences are eligible to apply. Skills in global health equity research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and experience working with disproportionately affected populations is preferred. Deadline is June 30, 2021. [ ... ]

May 26, 21 9:00 am

The Union/ATS webinar: TB Elimination – Why Not Now? Session 1 Posted on May 21 2021

The Union and ATS are organizing a webinar series to discuss if the ambitious goals outlined in the WHO End TB Strategy and reinforced by the commitments made at the UN High Level [ ... ]

Apr 19, 21 3:00 am

Leveraging social science in the global fight against Tuberculosis Posted on April 13 2021

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of death across low- and middle-income countries. An epidemic entwined with social and economic circumstances, it is widely [ ... ]

Mar 24, 21 2:30 pm

Elevating the social science gaze on tuberculosis Posted on March 24 2021

To commemorate World TB Day 2021, Amrita Daftary will deliver a seminar to share news about a global initiative launched with funding from the Dahdaleh Institute to connect social science TB scholars, learners [ ... ]

Mar 23, 21 6:00 pm

TOGETHER Against TB Posted on March 17 2021

Join us for this webinar organized by Partners in Health Canada, Results Canada, and Stop TB Canada. Before the pandemic, tuberculosis (TB) was the [ ... ]

Mar 8, 21 8:00 am

International Women’s Day Webinar 2021: Women #ChooseToChallenge A Gender Sensitive & Equitable Response to End TB Posted on February 23 2021

Register here: https://forms.gle/Ru4rV28E3MJLGM4d6 Globally, an estimated 10 million people fell ill with TB in 2019, with women accounting for 32% of those affected. Though [ ... ]

May 31, 21 8:00 am

Qualitative Methods Postgraduate Course Posted on February 17 2021

Register today: http://mcgill-idgh.ca/registration-information/ A course focused on the principles and rigorous application of qualitative methods in formative, operational, evaluation and policy research in infectious [ ... ]

Mar 12, 21 7:00 am

SSHIFTB Foundational Meeting Posted on February 17 2021

SSHIFTB had its foundational meeting just shy of World TB Day 2021, bringing together 25+ TB scholars and advocates from 15+ countries to inaugurate [ ... ]

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