2025 National TB Conference
Virtual 2025 National TB Conference
PLEASE NOTE: The NTCA Town Hall session on September 4th has been postponed. See details below.
Conference Website and Registration
The conference website and registration are open here. Top menu links provide information about the conference sessions, continuing education credits, and registration fees, the 2025 Call for Abstracts, and exhibitor and sponsorship opportunities. To register, go to this page, scroll down, select your registration pathway, and complete the form.
Conference Sessions
This year’s conference includes sessions originally developed for the in-person conference that were thought to have the greatest relevance for TB program and lab personnel. These curated sessions include:
August 27, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
Special Symposium – NTCA Community Respiratory Isolation Restriction Guidelines: Practical Implementation
This session delves into best practices and practical considerations, and engage with ethical, clinical, and community aspects of the recently released NTCA Respiratory Isolation Restriction (RIR) Guidelines. For extended learning opportunities related to this session, download this list of recordings and publications.
POSTPONED & TO BE RESCHEDULED: Originally scheduled for September 4
NTCA Town Hall
Due to an overwhelming response to our request for discussion topics, the NTCA leadership has decided to reschedule this session for later this fall. We recognize the importance of structuring this session in a way that is most beneficial to our community and provides opportunities for greater participation and audience engagement with the NTCA leadership and the broader TB community. We are exploring other platforms to host this session and will reach out to all registered conference participants and the NTCA membership with details when a new date is selected. We look forward to being in community with, and learning from, you!
Join NTCA leadership as they lead conference participants in a celebration of what NTCA has accomplished as an organization over its almost 30-year history. Discussion will also identify current, and future/anticipated, needs of the TB community to help shape the agenda for how NTCA can best serve the NTCA membership, TB community, TB survivors, and public health TB programs over the next several years. Audience engagement is encouraged.
September 10, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
The Future of TB Diagnostics: Innovations and Impacts on U.S. Public Health
This joint session is a collaboration between APHL and NTCA and explores the transformative role of new technologies in advancing TB diagnostics, while addressing the unique challenges faced in the United States. Speakers will highlight the tests that are used to detect, identify and assess drug susceptibility in Mycobacterium TB, both globally and within the U.S. The discussion also examines the intersection of innovation, regulation, and supply chain vulnerabilities in shaping the future of TB diagnostics.
September 11, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
Poster Discussion Session
This session provides an opportunity for the TB community to learn from each other in an interactive virtual poster discussion session. Conference planners hope to mirror the extremely popular “poster discussion session” of the in-person conferences. Authors of accepted abstracts will be able to upload a recorded presentation of their work to accompany the poster itself.
September 17, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
TB in Mobile Populations: Navigating the Challenges of Care in the U.S.
This session will explore the challenges of navigating TB care amongst the mobile population in the United States and describe the status of mobile populations and their implications for future TB prevention efforts.
September 18, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
TB Research and Science
This session, presented by researchers affiliated with the NIH-funded TB Research Advancement Centers (TRACs) programs, explores the cutting-edge science being conducted at each TRAC site. Presentations selected from traditional bench science to cohort studies to translational research to animal model studies will be included. In addition, investigations involving diagnostics and biomarkers, TB transmission, drug absorption studies will provide participants with early glimpses into future TB diagnosis and care.
September 24, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Babes and Boomers: The Complexities of TB in Special Populations
This session highlights the key differences in clinical presentation, diagnosis, and TB management of these two unique population groups, emphasizing the increased risk of severe disease in young children and the often-atypical symptoms in elderly patients due to weakened immune systems, making diagnosis challenging in both groups.
September 25, 2025 – 1:00 PM-3:00 PM ET
Nurturing a CoLABorative Culture: TB Lab/Program Partnerships
This joint session, a collaboration between APHL and NTCA dives into how TB programs and labs work together in a collaborative culture. Presenters showcase examples of partnerships including programmatic innovations to improve systems and practical ways to address resource constraints. Participants will hear from both the lab and the program on the same topic, such as complex drug resistance and false positives, so that both perspectives can be appreciated. The goal is for participants to come away from this session with ideas that they may be able to adapt to their own TB Lab/Program partnership.
2025 Virtual TB Conference Registration Fees
This year’s virtual conference fees have been selected by the NTCA leadership to promote broad participation from our TB programs, TB lab partners, and the larger TB community which includes survivors, researchers, private providers, community-based organizations, legislative and policy staff, and anyone interested in learning about TB and TB elimination efforts in the United States.
NTCA Member – $150
NTCA Non-Member – $250
Retiree/Student – $75
Single-Session on the new NTCA Isolation Guidelines – $75
For additional information or questions about the 2025 Virtual NTC, please email Sherry Brown at sbrown.ntca@gmail.com.
