CCDD ID Epi Seminar Series

Talk title: Tuberculosis screening and prevention for people with HIV.

Presenter: Lelia Chaisson, Research Assistant Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago.

Lelia Chaisson, PhD, MSc, is Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a core faculty member of the UIC Center for Global Health. Her research interests center on tuberculosis and HIV, including global epidemiology and control, prevention, and diagnostics. Her current work focuses on scale-up of tuberculosis preventive therapy for people living with HIV and active case finding for tuberculosis. In addition, Lelia serves as technical consultant to the WHO Global Tuberculosis Programme, where she has contributed to development of guidelines for treatment of drug-susceptible tuberculosis, systematic screening, and tuberculosis screening and diagnostic algorithms for people living with HIV. Lelia received an MSc in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

About the series: Each spring, CCDD hosts an annual seminar series featuring talks from experts on the latest research in infectious disease epidemiology and modeling. The ID Epi Seminar Series aims to bring in speakers from various disciplines within infectious disease epidemiology, broadly defined to include the population biology of pathogens and other allied topics. Seminars will be held on Thursdays at 1pm ET between February 9th and May 11th with the exception of March 16th (spring break).

This seminar is hybrid in-person and virtual. The in-person seminar will be located in Kresge G2 at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Registering using this form will grant you access to both in-person seminars as well as remote versions of the seminar. A recording of this seminar will also be made available.

Register for the seminar here.