Events & Meetings
The APPG on Global Tuberculosis facilitates regular meetings with experts and key stakeholders in order to receive briefings on and debate key issues in the field of global TB control. Details of upcoming and past events can be found below.
For more information about upcoming events contact the APPG's coordinator.
| Date | Events | Details | Time | Location |
| 01/04/08 | Open meeting | COMDIS: Overcoming barriers to TB treatment & diagnosis (Download meeting notes / Dr Wei's presentation / Dr Zafar's presentation 1 / presentation 2) | 13:00 - 14:00 | Committee Room 17, House of Commons, London |
| 26/03/08 | Open meeting | Putting Tuberculosis on the Local Agenda. Launch of APPG report. | 18:30 - 20:00 | Macmillan Suite, Portcullis House, London |
| 18/03/08 | Briefing meeting | India's Tuberculosis Epidemic. Joint meeting with Indo-British APPG (Download meeting notes) |
10:30 – 12:00 |
Committee Room 6, House of Commons, London |
| 17/03/08 | Open meeting | Launch of WHO annual TB surveillance report (Download presentation by Dr. Katherine Floyd) | 10:00 - 11:30 | Jubillee Room, House of Commons, London |
| 21/01/08 | Open meeting | APPG Malaria meeting with Michel Kazatchkine, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria. (Download meeting notes / |
16:00 - 17:30 | Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London |
| 06/12/07 | BTS Winter Conference | A presentation of results from the APPG on Global TB’s survey of PCTs. (Download meeting notes) | 12:00 - 13:30 | QEII Conference Centre, London |
| 28/11/07 | Open meeting | HIV and TB: two diseases, one response? Joint APPG TB and AIDS meeting. (Download minutes / UNAIDS presentation) |
16:00 - 17:30 | Committee Room 9, House of Commons, London |
| 09/07/07 | Open meeting | Action for Global Health Policy Report Launch - hosted by APPGs on AIDS and Reproductive Health |
15:30 - 17:30 | Jubillee Suite, Portcullis House, London |
| 04/07/07 | Open meeting | Addressing the Health Worker Crisis in Africa: Forum hosted by AMREF and APPGs on TB, AIDS and Malaria. | 16:00 – 17:30 | Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, London |
| 13/06/07 | Briefing meeting | Informal meeting to discuss what role the APPG on Global TB can play in addressing the growing incidence of TB in the UK (Download minutes of meeting) |
10:00 – 11:30 |
Room T, Portcullis House, London |
| 16/05/07 | Briefing meeting | Briefing from Dr. Jerald C. Sadoff, President and CEO of Aeras Global Vaccine Foundation (Download minutes of meeting and Dr Sadoff's powerpoint presentation) | 16:00 – 17:30 | Room O, Portcullis House, London |
| 24/04/07 | Open meeting | Sir Richard Feachem, former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, was invited to speak about his experience of the first five years of the Global Fund |
17:00 - 19:00 | Committee Room 7, House of Commons, London |
| 22/03/07 | Open meeting | TB Everywhere is TB Anywhere - launch of APPG Agenda for Action and WHO TB Control Report 2007 (Download minutes of meeting) | 16:00 – 18:30 | Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, London |
| 23/01/07 | Briefing meeting | Julie Morgan received briefing from the British Thoracic Society on the growing incidence of TB in the UK | 10:00 – 11:00 | Room W4, Westminster Hall, London |
| 20/11/06 | Open meeting | Nick Herbert met with representatives from NGOs, academics, TB practitioners and experts to discuss priority areas for the APPG to address in the coming year. | 15:00 – 16:00 | Wilson Room, Portcullis House, London |
| 25/10/06 | Inaugural meeting | Global TB: Challenges and Opportunities – speakers: Dr. Mario Raviglione, Director of WHO Stop TB Department; Gareth Thomas MP, Under-Secretary of State for International Development; Dr. Bobby John, Global Health Advocates and Winstone Zulu, patient advocate. (Download minutes of meeting) | 14:00 – 15:30 | Committee Room 8, House of Commons, London |