National TB Conference

2025 National TB Conference

NTCA Board and Planning Committee
Update: April 21, 2025

Virtual 2025 National TB Conference

The National TB Coalition of America (NTCA) leadership and members of the 2025 National TB Conference Planning Committee have made the difficult decision to cancel the in-person conference, previously scheduled for June 2-6, 2025. In its place, NTCA will host the Virtual 2025 National TB Conference.

We anticipate there will be a total of 6-8 sessions in the Virtual 2025 National TB Conference. This virtual conference will retain relevant, perhaps even urgent sessions currently being faced in the TB world that are of immediate concern, such as how to practically apply the NTCA isolation guidelines, which would have been included in an in-person conference.

In addition, we plan on including a session which will be co-sponsored by our Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) colleagues on the critical importance of the program-lab collaborations for addressing TB prevention and elimination.

The Planning Committee hopes to announce the dates and the session content within the next 1-2 weeks, followed by the opening of the registration for the virtual conference. Please contact Sherry Brown if you have any questions.

Cancellation of the In-Person 2025 National TB Conference

The decision to cancel the in-person conference was based on the following considerations:

  • Initially, we encountered obstacles with the hotel that needed to be worked through and ultimately resulting in cancelling the hotel contract due to construction set to take place during the June conference dates.
  • Given the importance of the annual in-person educational and networking opportunities provided by the National TB Conference, we explored new dates in August 2025 for hosting the conference.
  • After consulting with moderators and invited speakers, it was apparent that summer vacation schedules, reporting deadlines, and prior commitments precluded a full complement of sessions and the inclusion of nationally recognized faculty for the planned National TB Conference content.
  • In addition to the scheduling challenges, NTCA recognized that many in the TB and public health world are still facing overwhelming and important challenges that are front of mind – not the least of which are the very real public health budget cuts, loss of personnel, and additional responsibilities falling to remaining staff.

Given these challenges, we decided that the most prudent decision would be to cancel the in-person conference. This decision was made in partnership with our APHL colleagues who were co-sponsoring this year’s Atlanta-based conference. APHL leadership also made the difficult decision to cancel their planned 14th National Conference on the Laboratory Aspects of TB.