Events

NDMC Talk series: Invited talk by Dr. Jonathan Golub and Dr. Samyra Cox, John Hopkins University

December 9, 2024

NDMC hosted an invited online talk by Prof. Jonathan Golub and Dr. Samyra Cox on “TB Aftermath: Optimizing post-treatment screening for TB”, on the 9th of December 2024.

Dr. Golub is a Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology, and International Health at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Cox recently completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Abstract

TB aftermath is a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial in Pune, India that assesses the comparative effectiveness, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness of phone vs. home-based screening after TB treatment. The study is led by investigators from DY Patil Vidyapeeth and Johns Hopkins University in collaboration with India's National TB Elimination Program. The study design and preliminary non-inferiority trial results were discussed. A simple tool for predicting TB recurrence that could help target post-treatment screening was also presented.