TRAC Seminar Series: Socio-economic impacts of TB – updates from the TB Sequel multi-country prospective observational cohort study | Denise Evans, MD, MS

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | 12pm - 1pm
Socio-economic impacts of TB – updates from the TB Sequel multi-country prospective observational cohort study
Speaker: Denise Evans PhD (Biomed)

The Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC)  Seminar will be held on Wednesday, February 12, 2025 from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in CRB-2, 1M.13 or via Zoom. Add to Calender

Socio-economic impacts of TB – updates from the TB Sequel multi-country prospective observational cohort study

Denise Evans, PhD (Biomed)

Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg South Africa.

Denise Evans is a Principal Researcher at the Health of Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, a Division of the Wits Health Consortium at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has a joint appointment as an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand. She has been at HE2RO for over 15 years and currently leads the TB Research portfolio at HE2RO. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers (Google Scholar H-index as of 35) and is an NRF C-rated scientist. She has been the PI on multiple large grants, several cluster randomized trials, and health economic evaluations for TB in South Africa and other countries. She has been leading the socio-economic research task of TB Sequel since 2016. Much of her research focuses on the bi-directional relationship between post-TB lung disease and economic, social, and psychological outcomes associated with TB.

This Seminar is presented by the Administrative Core and Developmental Core

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