Tuberculosis (TB) is caused by an infectious bacteria called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB disease usually affects the lungs but can impact any part of the body. TB disease is a leading cause of infectious disease death worldwide, second only to COVID-19. Each year, 10 million people develop TB disease, including 1.5 million who die from the disease. This includes people in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada. Our team works to develop evidence to support TB programs in British Columbia, nationally and internationally to help eliminate this disease by developing more effective approaches to TB screening, treatment and prevention.
Our multidisciplinary research team has experience in health administrative data analysis, clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics, bioinformatics, and guideline development. We have numerous collaborations nationally—with the McGill International TB Centre and the University of Toronto —and internationally—the University of Sydney and the United States Centers for Disease Control Tuberculosis Treatment Consortium (TBTC). Our goal is to develop evidence to inform TB prevention and treatment guidelines and public health policy for low and high TB incidence regions.
We work in the Provincial TB program at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). In this role, we collaborate with provincial partners to prevent TB through screening and preventative therapy. We also treat people with TB disease in an outpatient setting through BCCDC TB Clinics, or on the TB inpatient unit at Vancouver General Hospital.
Our multidisciplinary research team has experience in health administrative data analysis, clinical trials, epidemiology, health economics, bioinformatics, and guideline development. We have numerous collaborations nationally—with the McGill International TB Centre and the University of Toronto —and internationally—the University of Sydney and the United States Centers for Disease Control Tuberculosis Treatment Consortium (TBTC). Our goal is to develop evidence to inform TB prevention and treatment guidelines and public health policy for low and high TB incidence regions.
We work in the Provincial TB program at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). In this role, we collaborate with provincial partners to prevent TB through screening and preventative therapy. We also treat people with TB disease in an outpatient setting through BCCDC TB Clinics, or on the TB inpatient unit at Vancouver General Hospital.