Diagnostics – Funding Announcement

Following the successful application of the team at Harvard University, TB MAC is pleased to announce an award to fund “Modelling to support the scale-up of TB case detection within countries”, a direct result of our meeting 2 “Impact and Cost Effectiveness of Current and Future Diagnostics”. Led by Nick Menzies and Joshua Salomon at the Harvard School of Public Health, this project will investigate the consequences of a range of diagnostic algorithms and case finding approaches in nine high TB burden settings, chosen to reflect a range according to HIV prevalence, TB drug resistance, and health system capacity. In addition to estimating epidemiological outcomes, this project will also estimate changes in resource consumption following policy change, with the goal of providing generalizable information to inform program strategy in a variety of high TB burden settings.