On Friday, 24^th January, 2020, Dr. Patrick de Marie Chimusa KATOTO will publically defend his PhD thesis in a mini-symposium which will be held in Woolfspoort auditorium under the following program:

Aula “Wolfspoort” Huis Bethlehem, Schapenstraat 34, Leuven

MINI-SYMPOSIUM

TUBERCULOSIS AND AIR POLLUTION IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

14:00     Ben NEMERY & Tim NAWROT (KU Leuven, Centre for Environment & Health): Welcome and introduction

14:05     Jean NACHEGA: (Stellenbosch University, Cape Town; University of Pittsburgh, and Johns Hopkins University): Global control of HIV and Tuberculosis: a Work in Progress

14:35     Natalie LORENT (UZ Leuven, Division of Respiratory Diseases): “Mind the gap”. Early detection and treatment of tuberculosis through active case finding in the urban slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia

15:05     Emmanuel ANDRE (UZ Leuven, Clinical Microbiology): Tackling the burden of tuberculosis under-detection in the South-Kivu province of DRC

15.05     Kathryn TONNE (Barcelona Institute for Global Health): Integrated assessment of household air pollution and ambient particles in relation to cardiovascular risk in peri-urban India

16:05     John BALMES (University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley): Where There’s Wildfire, There’s Smoke.

17:00     PUBLIC DEFENSE OF PhD THESIS

Environmental Air Pollution and Association with Pulmonary Tuberculosis in South-Kivu Province, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

by Patrick de Marie Chimusa KATOTO

Promoters: B. Nemery, T. Nawrot, J. Nachega

All welcome, please register in advance (also to obtain access code to enter car park): anita.vandeborne@kuleuven.be