Nice that you once more have a packed room! Enjoyed the course last year. Looking forwards to bumping into you at #WCLH2025!

My call to participants:
Identify a community of which you are part and how you would like to organise to impact the world.
Find someone from a community where you live, work, or serve.
Plan how you can give power to a community you serve or take power for a community you represent.
#EndTB #WCLH2025

Very moving to see Henry Reider, the main character through whose eyes we see #Tuberculosis in John Green's book!
It's amazing to be at a conference that not only brings together the top scientists in a field but also the people who live with the disease we talk about! #WCLH2025.

I unfortunatly won't be able to attend this year with a planned meeting overlapping in a Copenhagen #WCLH2025 @theunion.org where I am also looking forward to meet some #GlobalHealthFriends and colleagues working on TB.
#GlobalHealth #EndTB

Wastewater surveillance must remain a public health tool, not a mechanism of control.
Read the article by Patrick D'Aoust here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
#EpiSky #PublicHealth #MedicalEthics

As a public health physician, I’m deeply concerned when tools designed to protect and improve health are repurposed to restrict access to care. Such misuse undermines public trust, threatens privacy, and directly contradicts core medical and public health ethical principles.

At this same meeting, the WMA just adopted its Statement on Trans People, which calls on physicians to speak out against legislation that violates human rights.
www.wma.net/policies-pos...

This work will hopefully eventually allow all Nunavik communities to benefit from wastewater surveillance and have better tailored #PublicHealth interventions for all kinds of disease including outbreak prone infections, seasonal infections, regional challenges like TB, etc.

This week Judith Maréchal @ulaval.ca, Felix Addo @uottawa.ca, and Jacquelyn Yushkov @mcgillspgh.bsky.social worked hard with Billy Watt and all the drivers in the Kuujjuaq team to try out a new sampler and collect wastewater for analysis.
Photos by Judith Maréchal.

Nevertheless sampling in Nunavik is complex: most communities do not have piped sewer systems and sampling requires collecting from wastewater trucks.
It's great to be working with Stéphanie Guilherme @ulaval.ca and Robert Delatolla @uottawa.ca to develop methods for effective sampling!

Wastewater surveillance offers a few advantages:
• It doesn’t depend on individual testing uptake
• Can highlight silent transmission early
• Offers population-level data without stigma