The UC TRAC Global Fellowship Program provides tailored mentorship, capacity-building, and stipend funding to elevate the research and career path of Early-Stage Investigators engaged in Tuberculosis-focused research who are from and working in LMIC countries with a high burden of TB.

Applicants must be involved in research affiliated with a current UCSF or UCB faculty or research project.

Flyer available here or visit the website for more information.

The Bay Area Tuberculosis Science (BATS) Symposium is happy to announce our 2024 keynote speaker, Dr. Megan Murray (Ronda Stryker and William Johnston Professor of Global Health, and Director of Research, Global Health & Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School). Please save-the-date for Thursday, September 26, 2024, in person on the Mission Bay campus in San Francisco.

More details, including registration information, to follow in April 2024.

UC TRAC is pleased to solicit applications for Accelerator Awards in TB Basic Science. Accelerator Awards will be granted up to three times per year to early-stage and new-to-TB investigators and dispersed as salary support for BSL-3 trained personnel who will perform the necessary experiments of the awardee.

Extended Deadline: November 10, 2023.

Questions? Contact info@uctrac.org

The UCSF Center for Tuberculosis initiative on DEIAB aims to provide resources (boost awards and pilots) to under-represented investigators and provide strategic vision to implement DEIAB values within the programs and offerings of the Center and UC TRAC.

Read more about the initiative's offerings on the DEIAB Initiative webpage.

Want to get involved?

The DEIAB Committee is organizing an in-person meeting on February 7, 2024 at Mission Bay. If interested in joining the committee, please email thea.sigerman@ucsf.edu.

The UCSF Center for Tuberculosis initiative on Maternal and Childhood TB aims to leverage UCSF's research expertise and partnerships to provide educational opportunities, clinical consultation, and mentorship to faculty and trainees of the UC TRAC community.

Read more about the initiative's offerings on the Maternal & Childhood Initiative webpage.

Want to get involved?

The initiative is organizing a committee to guide future maternal and childhood TB programs and activities. If interested, please join by emailing mat.child.tb@ucsf.edu.

Priya Shete, MD, MPH

PLOS Global Public Health

Publications in TB Research

Dr. Shete, with Center-affiliated colleagues Dr. Adithya Cattamanchi and Jillian Katoda, recently published an article entitled "Feasibility of a social protection linkage program for individuals at-risk for tuberculosis in Uganda" in PLOS Global Public Health.

Andrew Kerkhoff, MD, PhD

BMC Global and Public Health

Publications in TB Research

Dr. Kerkhoff, with Center-affiliated colleagues Drs. Nora West and Adithya Cattamanchi, recently published “Placing the values and preferences of people most affected by TB at the center of screening and testing: an approach for reaching the unreached” in BMC Global and Public Health.

Payam Nahid, MD, MPH

Board of Directors, UCSF Global Programs for Research & Training

Leadership in TB Research

The UCSF Global Programs for Research and Training recently elected Dr. Nahid to their Board of Directors and welcomes his expertise and perspective in clinical trials and translational research.

Sophie Huddart, PhD

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics and IGHS

Leadership in TB Research

The Center is thrilled to share Dr. Huddart's Assistant Professor appointment with Epidemiology & Biostatistics and IGHS! Dr. Huddart is a TB RAMP Alumni and World TB Day 2023-2024 Planning Committee Member. Congratulations, Sophie!

Faculty Position

UCSF Division of Vulnerable Populations

See Job Description

Project Coordinator

UC TRAC & UC Berkeley CEND

See Job Description

Supervisory Epidemiologist or Physician

CDC Division of TB Elimination

See Job Description - Epidemiologist

See Job Description - Physician

Highlights & Recognition

Send recent awards, grants, recognitions, or upcoming programs and events to the Center for Tuberculosis for our monthly CTB/UC TRAC newsletter. The newsletter is released in the last days of each month for 10 months of the year.

Email Sarah Hutch: sarah.hutchinson@ucsf.edu

Keystone Symposia: TB

March 24-27 | Keystone, CO

TB: The Host-Pathogen Interface

View the full working draft of 2023 TB-related conferences list. Link only available to UCSF Center for Tuberculosis-affiliated faculty and staff. Please email Barbara Alonso for recommendations or edits.

If you have news to share, please contact the Center for Tuberculosis Manager, Sarah K Hutch.