NDWG Annual Meeting 2019

Symposium jointly organized with FIND | 30 October 2019, 13:00-17:00, Hyderabad, India

Agenda

Chairpersons: Catharina Boehme, FIND, and Daniela Maria Cirillo, Ospedale San Raffaele, NDWG Co-Chairs

Session 1: Tackling the shadow of TB drug resistance

Uptake of new drug resistant TB treatment guidelines - what countries need from the diagnostics perspective to enable universal drug resistant TB care [fireside chat]

Introducing Seq&Treat to enable next-generation TB care [panel discussion] [Presentation] Anita Suresh, FIND

Session 2: Spotlight on Diagnostics for Latent TB Infection

Harnessing the potential of new LTBI tests [panel discussion] [Presentation]

Morten Ruhwald, NDWG and FIND

Session 3: A bright future for TB Diagnostic R&D?

TB diagnostics will not deliver themselves: we need to create demand [TED-style talk] [Presentation]

Madhukar Pai, McGill Global Health Programs

The TB diagnostics pipeline: needs & solutions [Presentation]

Samuel Schumacher, FIND