Weekly round-up #74

Wellcome Trust - Collaborative Awards in Humanitites and Social Sciences - Scheme to fund teams who are tackling major health-related questions that require a collaborative approach - prelimary deadline 2 Jul 2019

Find more funding opportunities on our website. If you are a VALIDATE associate, don't forget to apply for VALIDATE Training Grants (up to £3000 for training opportunities), application deadline 24 Jun 2019.

Training Opportunities:

Imperial College London - Global Health Short Course - St Mary's Campus, London 24-28 Jun 2019

Check out our training opportunities page for even more opportunities.

Events

9th World Melioidosis Congress - Hanoi, Vietnam 15-18 Oct 2019

All external events that we have spotted are listed on our website.

Job Opportunities:

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer for Molecular Bacteriology and Infection - Imperial College London, deadline 24 Jun 2019
Lectureship / Senior Lectureship in Microbiology - University of Edinburgh, deadline 3 Jun 2019

We keep our website updated with relevant job and PhD opportunities.

Publications:

Predicting progression to active tuberculosis: A rate-limiting step on the path to elimination in PLOS Medicine
Self-reported tuberculosis in India: evidence from NFHS-4 in BMJ Global Health

All relevant publications by our members and others are listed on our publications page. Let us know when you publish a paper and we will share it with the network!

On Twitter this week: read an interesting article on how TB in Canadian indigenous communities is symbolic of greater failure in healthcare equality; watch Prof Gordon Hamilton's seminar on Visceral leishmaniasis vector control in Brazil; listen to Jacob Creswell as he makes his case to end TB at the 72nd World Health Assembly; great news as in the last year, Challenge TB has helped diagnose 573,294 TB patients; look through The Indian Express article which finds that community pharmacists can help with tracking tuberculosis patients; and take a look at the highlights from the 72nd World Health Assembly.

Take a look at our twitter feed @NetworkVALIDATE to stay up to date.

Published: 29 May 2019