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...
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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
Read an original commentary on qualitative evidence synthesis for TB, hear about SSHIFTB contributors and...
New TB Centre at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Welcoming a new TB centre at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, co-led by SSHIFTB...
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...
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Health Diagnostics—McGill University
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October 2023
Watch interviews with photovoice researchers in Nigeria and Papua New Guinea, read an original commentary...
A note on the SSHIFTB flower
In July 2023, SSHIFTB revived its website, centring a new logo of a flower, amongst...
Submit to WHO’s new TB Research Tracker
As you might have read , WHO recently launched a TB research tracker, an online...
April 2023
Reflect on TB as a syndemic of structural violence in the US and South Africa,...
The 2023 United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis: an opportunity to advocate for social science research
The 2023 United Nations High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis: an opportunity to advocate for social science...
Tuberculosis: A syndemic of structural violence, by Emmanuella Ngozi Asabor
South Africa has one of the highest incidence rates of tuberculosis.1 According to a 2017-2019...