Identifying people with tuberculosis and linking to care: finding the missing millions — meet the guest editors

BMC Global and Public Health - Tập 1 - Trang 1-3 - 2023
Rachael M. Burke1,2, C. Finn McQuaid3
1Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi
2Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Disease, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
3TB Modelling Group, TB Centre and Centre for Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Tóm tắt

In this Q&A, Rachael Burke and Finn McQuaid answer questions about their research fields and share their experiences of guest-editing the journal’s collection on identifying people with tuberculosis and linking to care.

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