TRAC Seminar Series

Thursday, April 11, 2024 | 12pm - 1pm

Understanding and addressing gender disparities to end TB

Speaker: Katherine Horton, PhD, MPH

The weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series is held on Thursdays from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 and Zoom. RSVP for lunch by 12pm on Wednesday, 4/10. Add to Calendar

“Understanding and addressing gender disparities to end TB”

Katherine Horton, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Katherine Horton is an infectious disease epidemiologist with the TB Modelling Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her research interests focus on gaps in access to TB prevention and care, and she has been studying gender disparities in TB for the past decade. She is the LSHTM principal investigator and consortium modelling lead for the LIGHT Consortium, which aims to support policy and practice in transforming gendered pathways to health for people with TB in urban settings, and she co-chairs the Union’s working group on Gender Equity in TB.

The April TRAC Seminar Series is presented by the Bioinformatics, Modeling & Biostatistics Core.

Join via Zoom – **New link w/ Passcode**
https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/99512605810?pwd=NitKVjhqOFRCVURneE12Z2FzN21DQT09
Meeting ID: 995 1260 5810
Passcode: 107907