Tom Wingfield

🎙 New episode coming!

Ahead of #WorldTBDay, I spoke with Fatima Karmadwala, a survivor of multidrug-resistant TB, for the LSTM In Conversation podcast.

Her powerful story highlights why person-centred care is vital to ending TB.

📅 Out 23 March
🎧 Apple Podcasts • Spotify

#EndTB #TB #GlobalHealth

🌍 TB is preventable and curable — yet still one of the world’s leading infectious killers.

For #WorldTBDay, Fatima Karmadwala & I will be speaking on “Fighting poverty and stigma to defeat TB.”

🗓 23 March | ⏰ 12:30 GMT
📍 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
💻 Online: tinyurl.com/23ata5vt

Our @tomwingfield.bsky.social has spoken to @bmj.com about the worrying rise in TB cases across the UK.

He explains what's behind the rise and what could be done to reverse the trend - including the expansion of screening for latent TB and in preventive therapy.

www.bmj.com/content/392/...

LSTM research informs new WHO guidelines on expanding access to TB diagnosis Start4All, led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, is a four-year programme aimed at improving access to TB screening and diagnosis and, ultimately, enabling more underserved people with TB to

Start4All, a research project led by LSTM that is seeking to find the ‘missed millions’ of people who go undiagnosed with TB each year, has informed new World Health Organization guidelines on TB testing.

Read more: lstm.ac/4aOPaX6.

Iran targets doctors and lawyers for helping protesters Iranian medics and lawyers tell Caspar Barnes and Moha Tahery about the persecution they face from the Islamic regime for helping anti-government protesters during the deadly crackdown

Medical and legal professionals in Iran are facing brutal persecution by the regime for helping anti-government protesters.

🩺 Doctors are being tracked by spies & have had their clinics attacked while treating severe gunshot wounds.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

#IranMassacre #Iran

A figure showing the bactericidal activity of isoniazid, ethionamide, and alpibectir–ethionamide over a 7-day period.

Ethionamide has been used to treat tuberculosis for decades, but dose-dependent toxic effects have limited its use. In a new trial, alpibectir enabled the ethionamide dose to be reduced by two thirds. Full trial results: nej.md/46PP9Rn

#MedSky #IDSky

Measles is one of the most infectious diseases around. It can cause blindness and hearing loss – and can also be fatal.

📈 Why are cases now soaring and what can be done about it?

We spoke to one of our experts in epidemiology to find out what this means for the UK, @tomwingfield.bsky.social.

New paper from ReBUILD - Research capacity strengthening in fragile & shock-prone settings: Insights from a research consortium
Discusses our approach, analysing strategies and lessons learned

www.rebuildconsortium.com/resources/re...

@ighd.bsky.social @lstmnews.bsky.social @herdintl.bsky.social

Today, on the #InternationalDayOfWomenAndGirlsInScience we celebrate all the brilliant minds breaking barriers and driving progress through dedication & leadership!

Support.✊ Encourage.👏 Empower. 👊

The future of #Science needs women and girls!🧡
#womeninmaledominatedfields

Pleased to welcome Dr. Kenza Bennani & team from
@who.int Nepal ! We shared insights from our TB programs and discussed how these can support evidence-informed policies and community health.

Grateful for her commitment to catalytic support as we advance toward #EndTB goals together🙌

After surviving XDR-TB and an 18-month treatment, Mirriam is now sharing her powerful story with the world through the BBC, reminding us that recovery continues beyond treatment and post-TB care matters. #PostTBCare #posttb

"STIGMATIZED By Handaa Enkh-Amgalan Stigmatized pulls back the curtain on the real-life consequences of stigma on people with Tuberculosis. Enkh-Amgalan's memoir illustrates how structural failures led to her illness in Mongolia, and how she dealt with the stigma that followed her after she recovered, went to university, and traveled the world. Reading period from Feb 1st - Mar 31st"

Our reading period for STIGMATIZED: A Mongolian Girl's Journey from Stigma & Illness to Empowerment has begun! Follow along with author Handaa Enkh-Amgalan's experience of being diagnosed with TB at just age 15. Order STIGMATIZED now or request it at your local library: tbfighters.org/book-club

TB elimination depends on research and interventions that reflect community realities.

We were pleased to welcome delegates from @theunion.org to @bnmtnepal.bsky.social ! Our discussions focused on strengthening collaboration and advancing evidence-informed approaches to TB prevention.

House of parliament lit up at dusk. Copyright © 2026 Conceptual Images/Science Photo Library

📢 Call for papers for the BTS Winter Meeting 2026

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine and Thorax will co-host a session at the @btsrespiratory.bsky.social Winter Meeting

🗓️ Please submit by 30th June

The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: tinyurl.com/mrnhktyc
Thorax: tinyurl.com/3ujn42ju

🔆 New funding award announcement! 🔆

We are backing seven exciting new collaborations between scientists in Africa and the UK to investigate the health impacts of climate change.

👉 Read more: https://bit.ly/4pPW2J3

Did you catch last night's episode of Call the Midwife?

A potential rabies outbreak had 1970s Poplar in a state of fear.

Our Dr Tom Wingfield was an expert advisor for the episode, helping the programme makers understand more about the condition.

Watch it here: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis....

Scientists have developed an ‘early warning system’ that could predict insecticide resistance in malaria mosquitoes before it emerges in the field.

Read more: lstm.ac/4q94Kmi

Doctoral Programmes for Healthcare Professionals | Grant funding | Wellcome Get guidance on applying to host and administer a Wellcome doctoral programme for healthcare professionals at your institution. Find out about eligibility and how to apply.

We're funding doctoral programmes to train the next generation of clinically-active academic leaders.

This call continues our commitment to supporting healthcare professionals in research careers.

Apply now: https://wellcome.org/research-funding/schemes/doctoral-programmes-healthcare-professionals

Tuberculosis rates are rising. Here's who's most at risk | BBC Science Focus Magazine Cases of tuberculosis are rising in the UK and US, and experts are urging that a holistic approach to treatment is the best course of action

🫁 New #BBC article with Kerry Millington tackling the common misconception that #TB is a disease of the past in UK/US: more people are falling ill so who’s really at risk.
🔗 www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo...

We also highlight the vital research of our @lstmnews.bsky.social TB Centre
#EndTB 🌍💡

Tuberculosis rates are rising. Here's who's most at risk | BBC Science Focus Magazine Cases of tuberculosis are rising in the UK and US, and experts are urging that a holistic approach to treatment is the best course of action

"Is TB really making a comeback? The short answer is that the disease never really went away."

@tomwingfield.bsky.social and @kerrymillington.bsky.social have written an insightful piece for BBC Science Focus.

www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-bo....

Poverty and TB symposium session starting in 10 mins at Union #WCLH2025. Stellar speakers on this vital topic and I am delighted to chair. Room B4A (bring a coat!).

The Guardian view on the atrocities in El Fasher: the responsibility for these horrors extends beyond Sudan’s borders | Editorial Editorial: The world said ‘never again’ after Darfur’s genocide. Yet it stood by as catastrophe loomed

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Climate change and tuberculosis: an analytical framework Climate change is likely to exacerbate a range of determinants that drive tuberculosis, the world's leading cause of death from a single infectious agent. However, tuberculosis is often neglected in w...

Our framework that informed the @who.int TB & climate change policy brief out now in @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social, exploring the intersections and implications of climate change for the TB epidemic. Key message? TB should be considered a climate-sensitive disease
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Just had a brilliant week with the whole TB Module team here @lstmnews.bsky.social teaching on the #DTMH #TB module. A wonderful bunch of smart, curious, engaging and engaged students! What a privilege and good luck with the rest of the course!

🌍 New @lancetrespirmed.bsky.social!
Pooled sputum testing for TB: revisiting a cost-saving innovation

🚫 Let's bust pooling myths & misconceptions!

🔬 Pooling is efficient, accurate, cost-saving & improves equity of access!

📖 Read at doi.org/10.1016/S221...

Thanks @unitaid.bsky.social for funding!

World leaders show strong support for political declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health World leaders have expressed overwhelming support for the text of the first United Nations global political declaration on responding to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and mental health in an integra...

World leaders have expressed overwhelming support for the text of the first UN global political declaration on responding to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) & #MentalHealth in an integrated manner.
Read more: bit.ly/484q2vS

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This RCPE symposium explores the intersections of pandemic recovery, humanitarian crises and health inequality.

Ideal for professionals in Infectious Diseases, Public Health, Global Health, and more.

Link to book: www.rcpe.ac.uk/events/infec... @tomboylesid.bsky.social @tomwingfield.bsky.social

💡 TB's impact doesn’t just end with treatment: nor should cost-effectiveness analysis. New @lstmnews.bsky.social led multi-country modelling study @plosglobalpublichealth.org shows excluding patient costs or post-TB impact underestimates intervention cost-effectivenes & benefit.
tinyurl.com/arkhnwcp

Global, regional, and national estimates of tuberculosis incidence averted by eliminating undernutrition in adults: a modelling study Background Current efforts to reduce global tuberculosis incidence have proved insufficient, highlighting that urgent action is needed to address underlying modifiable risk factors such as undernutrit...

So...what would happen to the global TB epidemic if we hypothetically "eliminated" undernutrition? In this preprint, we combined estimates from our new review (doi.org/10.1093/ije/...) with population-specific BMI distributions to find out...(doi.org/10.1101/2025...)