Calendar
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Date to be Finalized
Virtual 2025 National TB Conference
Details: The in-person 2025 National TB Conference scheduled for June 2-6, 2025, has been cancelled. In its place there will be the Virtual 2025 National TB Conference, with 6-8 sessions. Dates and registration details will be finalized by mid-May.
Sponsors: National TB Coalition of America
Ongoing or Multi-month
Hybrid: Level 1: TB Basics, Contact Investigation, and Latent TB Infection
Date: April to June 2025
Details: This training is designed for nurses and public health/disease control investigators who are new to TB prevention and care responsibilities. Its content covers the foundational concepts necessary for staff to conduct contact investigations and case management for persons with LTBI. It includes five online self-paced modules and one live interactive session. Each online self-paced module will take approximately 30-60 minutes to complete. The live session is offered on May 21 and June 17, 2025. The training is free, and credits are offered. For more information and to apply, see here.
Sponsor: Curry International TB Center
Online Course: TB Case Management for Nurses
Date: April 29, May 1, 6, 8, 13, 15, 20, 22, 27 and 29, 2025
Time: 1:30-3:30 Eastern Time
Details: The course is full, and applications are closed now. The course is designed for nurses who are responsible for providing TB case management for patients with TB infection and disease. This interactive course will address specific aspects of nurse TB case management with a focus on practical application. Topics to be addressed will include an overview of TB nurse case management, person-centered care, interpretation of lab results, monitoring patients during therapy, TB contact investigations, infection control, and management of TB in special situations. The format will include pre-recorded and live sessions, interactive breakouts, and group discussions. For more information in case you are interested in future offerings of this course, see here.
Sponsor: Rutgers Global TB Institute
Online Course: 61st Annual Denver TB Course
Details: This course provides a broad overview of active and latent TB including its epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and management. The purpose of the course is to present this body of knowledge to general internists, epidemiologists, preventative medicine, public health, infectious disease and chest specialists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses and other health care providers who will be responsible for the management and care of patients with TB. The in-person course was held on April 2-4, 2025, and is now available in recordings. Registered attendees may claim credit for viewing recorded sessions online. (Note that you cannot get both live and online credit for the same session.) For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: National Jewish Health
April 2025
Virtual Course: Infectious Diseases in Adults 2025
Date: April 28-May 2, 2025
Details: This CME program is presented online this year via live streaming, April 28 ─ May 2, and covers best practices for common, emerging, rare, and the most challenging diseases. Earn up to 39.00 CME credits (AMA, ABIM, AAFP, ACPE). For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Harvard Medical School
May 2025
Conference: APHL 2025
Date: May 5-8, 2025
Location: Portland, OR
Details: The conference is an event for the public health laboratory community, bringing together leaders, scientists, influencers and partners to share issues, trends and best practices driving laboratory science and public health today. Select sessions will be recorded and available for on-demand access after the conference. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Association of Public Health Laboratories
In-Person and Livestream Remote Event: Tuberculosis Nursing Symposium
Date: May 6-7, 2025
Location: Rochester, Minnesota — and remote livestream
Details: The registration deadline is Tuesday, April 29, 2025. This comprehensive, two-day event is dedicated to advancing the knowledge and skills of nurses in the field of TB care. This symposium will cover essential topics including TB fundamentals, nurse case management, and contact investigation, providing a robust foundation for effective TB control and patient care. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
Webinar: Interpreting IGRA Results: Advanced Insights for Civil Surgeons
Date: May 14, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 Eastern Time
Details: This event is part of the quarterly TB Essentials for Civil Surgeons and Supporting Healthcare Professionals Webinar Series. This webinar focuses on enhancing civil surgeons’ and supporting healthcare professionals’ understanding of interpreting interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA) results in TB screening. As a follow-up to the introductory session on IGRA testing, this session dives deeper into the nuances of interpreting results, particularly in clinical scenarios civil surgeons frequently encounter. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
Conference: ATS 2025
Date: May 16-21, 2025
Location: San Francisco, CA
Details: To attend the conference in person, register here. If you cannot travel to San Francisco, registration options are available for remote on-demand access in the ATS Conference Highlight packages. For more information on these packages, see here.
Sponsor: American Thoracic Society
Webinar: Differential Diagnosis of TB and Non-TB Mycobacterial (NTM)-related Lung Infections
Date: May 22, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 Eastern Time
Details: This event is part of the monthly Innovations in Tuberculosis Webinar Series. This webinar delves into the differential diagnosis of TB and non-tuberculous mycobacterial (NTM)-related lung infections. Participants will gain insights into the clinical presentation, diagnostic challenges, and management strategies for these infections. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
Webcast: Undressing DRESS: When Medications Dress to Kill
Date: May 22, 2025
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 Eastern Time
Details: This webcast is part of the TB Nurse Case Management webinar series conducted in partnership with the Centers of Excellence and the National TB Nurse Coalition. This webcast is intended for nurses, physicians, and other health staff who are actively engaged in the identification, case management, and treatment of patients with TB. At the end of this webcast, participants will be able to educate TB nurse case managers and other public health professionals about drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) during treatment of a patient with TB. The registration deadline is May 21, 2025. This webcast is free, and credits are available for physicians and nurses. For more information or to register, see here.
Sponsor: Heartland National TB Center
Online Course: One Health Approaches to Infectious Disease Control
Date: May 26-29, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 4:00 Montreal Time
Details: This course will introduce and examine One Health approaches – which integrate multiple sectors, disciplines, and communities – to controlling infectious diseases. This course will include several case studies that will prepare participants to think beyond human medicine to envision complex and interdisciplinary strategies to control infectious diseases including vaccinating wild-populations, improving farm biosafety, pest-management, nutrition, and weather monitoring. Day 4 focuses on One Health dimensions of the ongoing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) crisis. The importance of surveillance across different sectors, effective government regulation, and maintaining community support will also be discussed in round-table format. Participants have the option to register exclusively for this day if they wish to focus on this critical topic. All content will be recorded and accessible to participants until July 1, 2025. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: McGill Summer Institute
Webinar: Preventing Tuberculosis in Your Clinic Setting
Date: May 30, 2025
Time: TBD
Details: This training will address how to create, assess, and improve outcomes in an LTBI cascade of care in a clinic setting. Please note: the application link will send you to the Zoom registration page setup by CDPH – TB Free CA. Details are pending. For updates, see here.
Sponsor: Curry International TB Center
June 2025
Conference: CSTE 2025 Annual Conference
Date: June 8-12, 2025
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Details: The conference includes workshops, plenary sessions with leaders in the field of public health, breakout sessions, discussion sessions, poster presentations, and more. Conference attendees meet and share their expertise in surveillance and epidemiology as well as best practices in a broad range of areas including informatics, infectious diseases, substance use, immunizations, environmental health, occupational health, chronic disease, injury control, and maternal and child health. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
Webinar: Unique and Emerging Aspects of Pediatric Tuberculosis
Date: June 26, 2025
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 Eastern Time
Details: This event is part of the monthly Innovations in Tuberculosis Webinar Series. Pediatric TB presents distinct challenges compared to adult TB, requiring specialized approaches for diagnosis and treatment. This webinar explores the unique features of TB in children, including differences in disease presentation, progression, and immune response. Participants will enhance their skills in utilizing key diagnostic tools—such as interferon-gamma release assays (IGRAs), chest radiography, and microbiologic testing—to improve detection of both active TB and latent TB infection (LTBI). For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: Mayo Clinic Center for Tuberculosis
NTCA All-Member Call
Date: June 26, 2025
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 Eastern Time
Details: This online call is held quarterly for NTCA members. All NTCA members — including general members and members of our three sections — are invited to join. A Zoom registration link will be sent to members closer to the call date.
Sponsor: National TB Coalition of America
July 2025
Conference: NACCHO360
Date: July 14-18, 2025
Location: Anaheim, CA
Details: The 2025 NACCHO360 theme is “Bright Lights, Bold Ideas: Shaping the Future of Public Health Practice.” The conference will be held at the Anaheim Convention Center. Early registration ends May 25, 2025. For more information and to register see here.
Sponsor: National Association of County and City Health Officials
Online Course: LTBI for Nurses
Date: July 17, 24, and 31, 2025
Time: 9:00 – 10:30 Eastern Time
Details: This 3-week course is designed for nurses new to TB and covers the foundations of LTBI: using a risk assessment tool and LTBI care cascade to assess, test, treat, and case manage LTBI to successful treatment completion. This online blended course includes weekly live interactive sessions (1.5 hours) conducted via Zoom and pre-recorded lectures and activities completed on your own before and after the live session (about 3 hours). Application opens June 16 and may be submitted June 16-20. Course acceptance notifications will be sent on June 30. For more information and to apply, see here.
Sponsor: Southeastern National TB Center
August 2025
September 2025
Hybrid Event: 2025 NTM & Bronchiectasis Conference for Healthcare Providers
Date: September 10-12, 2025
Location: Denver, CO
Details: This conference is designed for family physicians and internal medicine physicians, pulmonologists, infectious disease physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, and other health care professionals who diagnose and treat patients with nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM). NTM are ubiquitous in our environment, and the clinical manifestations include but are not limited to chronic pulmonary infection, lymphadenitis, disseminated disease or skin and soft tissue infection. Treatment options are arduous but with the right tools, patients will improve clinically. We will have experts from across the country here to discuss this growing medical challenge. The 2025 meeting will be offered as a hybrid, with the option to attend in-person or online. All attendees will receive access to the online video content and slides after the conference. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsor: National Jewish Health
In-Person Conference: New England TB Clinicians Conference
Date: September 18, 2025
Location: Hartford, CT
Details: Details are pending. For updates, see here.
Sponsor: Rutgers Global TB Institute
October 2025
Conference: IDWeek 2025
Date: October 19-22, 2025
Location: Atlanta, GA
Details: IDWeek is the joint annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the HIV Medicine Association, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists. For more information and to register, see here.
Sponsors: See details above.
November 2025
World Conference on Lung Health
Date: November 18-22, 2025
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Details: Key dates for abstract submission and late-breaker topics are here. For more information on the conference, see here.For more information on the conference program, registration, and venue, see here.
Sponsor: The Union
