TB or not TB: | Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee | TEDxOudMetha

In this enthalling talk, Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee takes us through an understanding of how we can stop the spread of infectious disease, having developed a global platform for eradicating Tuberculosis. By looking at community based health care delivery platforms in vulnerable communities, he helps us to explore how this model is replicable across different geographies and can be used in the future to tackle other health problems.
Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee, MD, PhD, ScM,is the Director of Harvard Medical School’s Center for Global Health Delivery—Dubai since 2014. He is also an Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) at Harvard Medical School and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

He has worked extensively with the Boston-based non-profit Partners InHealth (PIH) on the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Over the last 14 years has conducted clinical and implementation research in Russia (2000-present). He was also the Deputy-Director for the PIH Lesotho Initiative (2006-2008), launching one of the first community-based treatment programs for multi-drug resistant tuberculosis/HIV co-infection in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2005, he became a member of the World Health Organization/Stop TB Partnership’s Green Light Committee for MDR-TB Treatment. From 2007 to 2010, he was the committee’s chair. He has spent considerable time working on alternate mechanisms for drug procurement, technical assistance delivery, and program implementation.

He is currently leading an initiative at Harvard Medical School on how to achieve zero deaths from tuberculosis. In addition to his research and policy work, Dr. Keshavjee is also an active member of the teaching faculty at Harvard. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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