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2009 World TB Day Congressional Briefings
March 9, 2009
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World TB Day 2009 Congressional Briefing: Helping America Reduce the Global Burden of TB
March 19, 2009
Russell Senate Office Building, Room SR-385
Washington, D.C.
As the world's TB experts head to Rio de Janeiro for World TB Day under the theme "Simply, Stopping Tuberculosis," the U.S. government is in the midst of creating a five-year global TB strategy required under the Lantos-Hyde Act. The U.S. theme for the 2009 World TB Day is "Partnerships for TB Elimination."
The Global Health Council, the American Thoracic Society (ATS), Eli Lilly and the World Health Organization (WHO) held a briefing to discuss what the U.S. executive branch and its congressional overseers need to consider from some of its partners while developing and implementing its five-year global TB strategy.
Speakers:- Diana E.C. Weil, Coordinator, Policy and Strategy, Stop TB Department, WHO
- Dr. Gail H. Cassell, Vice President, Scientific Affairs, Eli Lilly
- Smita Baruah, Director of Government Relations, Global Health Council
Moderator:
Richard E. Chaisson, MD, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and International Health and Director of the Center for Tuberculosis Research, Johns Hopkins University
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Tuberculosis: An Update on a Growing Threat at Home and Abroad
March 19, 2009
US Capitol, House Side, Room HC-8
Washington, D.C.
The Council and partners from WHO, ATS, and the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation held a briefing on the House side of the Capitol on the status of the global fight against TB. Presenters updated us on the status of global multi-drug resistant (MDR) and TB/HIV co-infection; domestic TB; TB Control and the intersection with the global economic crisis; and current TB research and development.
Speakers: - Diana E.C. Weil, Coordinator, Policy and Strategy, Stop TB Department, WHO
- Payam Nahid, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- Jerald Sadoff, MD, President & Chief Executive Officer, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation
Moderator:
Dr. Phil LoBue, Division of TB Elimination, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
category: Global Health Council News : Advocacy Events
contributed by Liza Nanni on 10 March 2009
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