Catch up on the latest TB Vax Webinar (Tuesday, 16 July 2024)

By Shaun Palmer | July 23, 2024

Tuesday, 16 July 2024 Check out the summary below or watch the recording and read the transcript for updates and insights from speakers on some of the latest developments in the TB vaccine field: Update on the WHO TB Vaccine Accelerator Council (Mike Frick, Treatment Action Group) Inclusion of new TB vaccines in Gavi’s Vaccine…

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Reflections from the TB Vax ARM Webinar on the #Wins4TBVax

By Shaun Palmer | April 18, 2024

Thursday, 4 April 2024 The TB Vaccine Advocacy Roadmap (TB Vax ARM) were joined by Birgitte Giersing (WHO), Rupali Limaye (SMART4TB), Suvanand Sahu (Stop TB Partnership), and Maiko Tonini (Ministry of Health, Brazil) at the #Wins4TBVax webinar on Thursday 4 April. The #Wins4TBVax outline key advocacy goals for the field to achieve by 2026 to…

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Summary: 2023 Working Group on New TB Vaccines Annual Meeting

By WGNV | February 15, 2024

The Stop TB Partnership Working Group on New TB Vaccines (WGNV) held its first annual meeting on 14 November 2023. The meeting was part of a full-day New TB Tools Summit – a collaboration between WGNV, the Stop TB Partnership’s Working Group on New Drugs and New Diagnostics Working Group, TB Alliance, FIND, and IAVI…

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All eyes on new TB vaccines – but what’s next after the HLM on TB?

By Shaun Palmer | October 12, 2023

Last month’s 78th United Nations (UN) General Assembly was a major week for global health, with back-to-back High-Level Meetings (HLMs) on Pandemic, Preparedness, and Response (PPR), Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and the second HLM on Tuberculosis (TB). This time round, TB vaccines were firmly in the spotlight – a sea change in support compared to…

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Career Paths in TB Research: Technical and Academic Paths

By Mbali Nondumiso Mkhonza | May 31, 2023

The Working Group on New TB Vaccines (WGNV) Early Career Researcher Network (ECR Network) recently held the first two virtual discussion sessions in a series on career paths in TB research. Technical/Non-Academic Path On the 15th of February, Dr. Mike Leipold, a Research and Development Scientist at Stanford University, tackled the often-pondered question of “if…

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