The Tuberculosis Pandemic – A Call to Action

Science, Application, Politics

Swiss TPH Hybrid Symposium


Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Despite being a preventable and curable disease, 1.5 million people die from TB each year. To re-awake public awareness, spark the global response and drive policy change, Swiss TPH organizes a symposium in spring 2023 dedicated to TB research. Topics will include:

  • State of the TB pandemic
  • Latest on basic and applied science
  • Health system issues
  • The poverty connection
  • How decision makers can support progress

 

 

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08:30

Registration  (8:55 virtual check-in)

Moderators: Sonia Borrell and Christian Auer, Swiss TPH

09:00

Welcome Jürg Utzinger, Director, Swiss TPH

09:05

Introductory Remarks, Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland (remote)

09:10

TB in the World Today: Update on the Epidemic and Progress in the Response, Matteo Zignol, Director a.i., Global TB Programme, WHO, Switzerland (remote)

09:50

The Burden of TB: DALYs, Socioeconomic Consequences, Stigma, Christian Auer, Swiss TPH

10:20

Break (15 minutes)

10:35 Community Perspective, Rhea Lobo, TB survivor and Board Member (Community Delegation) of the Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland (remote)
10:45

Why Social Protection is Essential to End TB, Delia Boccia, WHO Consultant, Switzerland (remote)

11:15 TB Advocacy, Stijn Deborggraeve, Médecins Sans Frontières, The Netherlands, and Austin Arinze Obiefuna, Afro Global Alliance and Stop TB Partnership Board, Ghana
11:35 Global Plan to End TB – How Can We End TB and How Much it Will Cost, Lucica Ditiu, Stop TB Partnership, Switzerland (remote), and Peter Sands, Executive Director, the Global Fund, Switzerland (remote)
12:05 The TB Caucus: Its Mission, Nick Herbert, Co-Chair, TB Caucus and Member of UK Parliament (video), and Alesia Matusevych, TB Caucus, Portugal (remote)
12:25 The TB Caucus – a European Perspective, Tina Rudolph, Member of German Parliament (remote)
12:45 Reaction from a Swiss Politician, the UNION and WHO, Eva Herzog, Member of Swiss Parliament, Switzerland, Kobto Ghislain Koura, Director TB Department, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France (remote); Tereza Kasaeva, Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, WHO (remote)
13:05 Lunch Break (55 minutes)

Moderator: Tiffany Bouchery, Swiss TPH

14:00

Revisiting the Natural History of Tuberculosis. Why does it Matter? Alberto García-Basteiro, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Mozambique and Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Spain

14:30

Ecology and Evolution of MDR-TB, Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH

15:00

Advances in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Genomics to Inform TB Control, Iñaki Comas, Tuberculosis Genomics Unit, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain

15:30

Coffee Break (20 minutes)

15:50

Dissecting Immune Responses along the Spectrum of Tuberculosis ex vivo in a Human 3D Granuloma Model, Damien Portevin, Swiss TPH

16:20

Immunity to Tuberculosis: Re-evaluating What We Think We Know, Carolyn King, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

16:50

TB Basic Biology: the Pathogen, Margarida Saraiva, Life and Health Sciences Research Institute, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

17:20

TB and Diabetes, Dorothy Yebuoah-Manu, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana (remote)
17:50 End of Day 1

Moderator: Claudia Daubenberger, Swiss TPH

08:40

Check-in and Welcome (8:55 Virtual Check-in)

09:00

TB Diagnostics: Newer Tools and Outlook, Adam Penn-Nicholson, FIND, Switzerland

09:30

Active Case Finding, Community Screening, Klaus Reither, Swiss TPH

10:00

Prevention is better than Cure: Development of More Effective TB Vaccines, Tom Scriba, University of Cape Town, South Africa (remote)
10:30 Coffee Break (30 minutes)
11:00 The Emerging Phenotype of Ancestral Tuberculosis, Bouke de Jong, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
11:30 The Current TB Drug Trial Landscape and the Need for Capacity Development, Nestani Tukvadze, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Georgia
12:00 Paediatric TB: Doing More with Less, Nicole Ritz, Children’s Hospital Lucerne and University Children’s Hospital Basel, Switzerland
12:30 Lunch Break (1 hour)

Moderator: Astrid Knoblauch and Xavier Bosch-Capblanch, Swiss TPH

13:30

TB Treatment and Drug Development – the Value of Cohort Studies, Jerry Hella, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania (remote)

14:00

Responding to Rapidly Changing HIV and Tuberculosis Epidemiology in Africa, Peter McPherson, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK

14:30

Host Specificity in Human and Animal Tuberculosis through the Lens of Genomics, Daniela Brites, Swiss TPH

15:00

Coffee Break (20 minutes)

15:20

TB in Prisons, Jason Andrews, Stanford Medicine, USA (remote)
15:50 Addressing the intersection between Gender and Social Determinants to End TB, Bertie Squire, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK (remote); Chukwuebuka Ugwu, Zankli Research Centre, Bingham University, Nigeria (remote)
16:20 Strengthened Health Care Systems for Ending TB, Annabel Baddeley, WHO, Switzerland (remote)
16:50 General Discussion and Wrap-up, Marcel Tanner, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences; Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH
17:15 End of Symposium

Lucica Ditui

Executive Director, Stop TB Partnership

Jürg Utzinger

Director, Swiss TPH

Stijn Deborggraeve

Diagnostics Advisor, Médecins Sans Frontières

Tereza Kasaeva

Assistant Director-General, Universal Health Coverage, World Health Organization, Switzerland

Tina Rudolph

Member of German Parliament

Alberto Lopez García-Basteiro

Associate Research Professor, Centro de Investigação em Saúde de Manhiça, Mozambique

Sébastien Gagneux, Swiss TPH

Head of Department, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH

Margarida Saraiva

Group Leader, Infection, Immunity and Regeneration, i3S- University of Porto

Adam Penn-Nicholson

Deputy Director of TB, Medical Affairs, FIND, the global alliance for diagnostics

Nestani Tukvadze

Director, TB Clinical Research Unit, National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, Georgia

Peter MacPherson

Professor of Global Public Health, School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, UK

Daniela Brites

Scientific Project Leader, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH

Chukwuebuka Ugwu

Early Career Researcher, Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

Matteo Zignol

Director a.i., Global TB Programme, World Health Organization

Rhea Lobo

TB survivor and Board Member, Stop TB Partnership

Austin Arinze Obiefuna

Afro Global Alliance and Stop TB Partnership Board

Nick Herbert

Co-Chair, TB Caucus and Member of UK Parliament

Kobto Koura

Director TB, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, France

Iñaki Comas

Principal Investigator, Tuberculosis Genomics Unit, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, Spain

Marcel Tanner

President, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences; Director emeritus and Hon. President R. Geigy Foundation

Damien Portevin

Group Leader, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH

Dorothy Yebuoah-Manu

Director, Bacteriology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, University of Ghana

Klaus Reither

Head of Clinical Research Unit, Medicine, Swiss TPH

Bouke de Jong

Head of Mycobacteriology Unit, Biomedical Science Department, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

Jerry Hella

Deputy Head of Department, Interventions and Clinical Trials, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania

Jason Andrews

Associate Professor, Medicine, Stanford University, USA

Eva Herzog

Member of Swiss Parliament

Delia Boccia

Consultant, Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization

Peter Sands

Executive Director, the Global Fund

Alesia Matusevych

Regional Europe and Central Asia Regional Manager, Global TB Caucus, Portugal

Christian Auer

Public Health Specialist and Epidemiologist, Swiss Centre for International health, Swiss TPH

Sonia Borrell

Project Leader, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH

Carolyn King

Scientist, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Switzerland

Tiffany Bouchery

Assistant Professor, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH

Thomas Scriba

Deputy Director, SATVI, Pathology, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Nicole Ritz

Head of Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital Lucerne and University Children’s Hospital Basel

Claudia Daubenberger

Unit Head, Clinical Immunology, Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss TPH

Bertie Squire

Professor of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK

Xavier Bosch-Capblanch

Project Leader, Public Health, Swiss Center for Intrernational Health, Swiss TPH

Astrid Knoblauch

Project Manager, Diseases and Programmes, Health Impact Assessment, Swiss Centre for International Health, Swiss TPH

Annabel Baddeley

Technical Officer, World Health Organization, Switzerland