Fighting TB with Music | Stats + Stories Episode 271

Pop stars are often involved in raising the visibility of public health issues. Elton John is one obvious example for his work on HIV/AIDS. Rarely, though are pop-stars involved in gathering public health stats. Ugandan pop star Bebe Cool is the exception and his work to combat tuberculosis is a focus of this episode of Stats and Stories. Sandra Alba is an epidemiologist at KIT Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam. She trained as a medical statistician in the UK and soon after moved to Tanzania to complete a PhD program on access to malaria treatment. For the past 15 years, she has applied statistical and epidemiological methods to evaluate public health programs in low- and middle-income countries. Her research focuses on data quality and good epidemiological practice - specifically the interplay between research integrity and fairness in multi-disciplinary international research collaborations. Dr. Amera Khan is the Technical Officer at Stop TB Partnership in Switzerland whose goal is to reach TB-affected people and communities wherever they are to create innovative and new solutions for affected populations.