Jay Achar

Happy to be attending the #Wolfheze reboot at @whoeurope.bsky.social An excellent forum for regional expertise sharing in #tuberculosis

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity!🚨

Interested in researching how to improve risk prediction for people with #tuberculosis #TB and #multimorbidity?

Joint project between @uofgshw.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and @ki.se 🇸🇪, funded by UK MRC.

Details here⬇️

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Note to self, "hedgehogs are no better than chimpanzees" #tetlock #prediction #bayes

A global analysis of patterns of tuberculosis exposure and transmission Tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health concern and the leading infectious cause of mortality globally. The disease exhibits strong prevalence patterns by age and sex, but the implications of these...

Understanding patterns of #TB exposure and transmission is needed for targeted prevention strategies. In our latest pre-print, @petedodd24.bsky.social and I estimated the proportion of TB exposure to and transmission from sex and age groups for 177 countries.

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Well done @emilyakendall.bsky.social and team! Incredible work to generate this important data on people with minimal sputum #TB detection. Adds another piece to our understanding of those with very low sputum #bacillary load. Definitely one to dig into beyond the abstract! #TBSky #IDSky

Making research more #accessible is so important. I love what @climeresearchgroup.bsky.social has been doing with their publications - a short video to take away the key messages. Keep it up! One of my group's @ki.se has followed your lead! Give them a follow and take a look at their videos.

The recognition of asymptomatic #TB is both fascinating and worrying. The recognition of symptoms is the gate-keeper to so much of our public health response. Seems like another important argument for broader community access to diagnostic services!

Congratulations to my colleague Johan Lundin on promoting the use of #machinelearning and #AI to expand #access to life saving diagnostics. We must continue to push hard for safe and equitable implementation! #UHC

We are inviting applications for postdoctoral fellows in immunology of TB at the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative, University of Cape Town. For more information see the attached ad:

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Great to see this published after the hard work in Stockholm and Cape Town! How should we think about aerosol detection of #tuberculosis? Is it a diagnostic test? Could it help us prioritize prevention activities? Much more work to do, but exciting nonetheless @climeresearchgroup.bsky.social @ki.se