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The Social Science a nd Health Innovation for Tuberculosis (SSHIFTB) network invites you t o an upcoming webinar for this year’s World Tuberculosis Day 2026. SSHIFTB is a virtual global organization of scholars, learners and co mmunity representatives amplifying social science research and innova tion to address the global Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.

Together with the Athena Institute, SSHIFTB warmly invites you to join the annual World TB Day webinar titled: “TB and Planetary Heal th: Social Science Perspectives”. This years webinar will feature t hree speakers including Carol Devine (SeeChange Initiative), Karuna D evi Sagili (Independent Consultant), and Ellen Mitchell (Institute of Tropical Medicine).

Carol Devine will speak about SeeChange’s work with Inu it communities and partners in Nunavut responding to the disproportio nate tuberculosis (TB) epidemic across Inuit Nunangat. By the 1950s, at least one-third of the Inuit population in Canada was infected wit h TB, and thousands were sent south for treatment, without consent.
Karuna Devi Sagili will look at the effect of climate change on TB risk factors and health system preparedness, with focus on Ind ia.
Ellen Mitchell will speak on studying air and amorphous risk. Ellen will share how her group is trying to co-design sustaina ble machines to remove bioaerosols using locally manufactured, simple tech. She will describe the challenges in honest co-design, from ove rcoming informational asymmetries to forging meetings of the minds.

DESCRIPTION: The Social Science and Health Innovation for Tuberculosis (SSHIFTB) network invites you to an upcoming webinar for this year� �s World Tuberculosis Day 2026. SSHIFTB is a virtual global organizat ion of scholars, learners and community representatives amplifying so cial science research and innovation to address the global Tuberculos is (TB) epidemic. Together with the Athena Institute, SSHIFTB w armly invites you to join the annual World TB Day webinar titled: “ TB and Planetary Health: Social Science Perspectives”. This years w ebinar will feature three speakers including Carol Devine (SeeChange Initiative), Karuna Devi Sagili (Independent Consultant), and Ellen M itchell (Institute of Tropical Medicine).

Carol Devine will speak about SeeChange� ��s work with Inuit communities and partners in Nunavut responding to the disproportionate tuberculosis (TB) epidemic across Inuit Nunanga t. By the 1950s, at least one-third of the Inuit population in Canada was infected with TB, and thousands were sent south for treatment, w ithout consent.
Karuna Devi Sagili will look at the effect of climate change on TB risk factors and health system preparedness, with focus on India.
Ellen Mitchell will speak on studying air and amorphous risk. Ellen will share how her group is trying to c o-design sustainable machines to remove bioaerosols using locally man ufactured, simple tech. She will describe the challenges in honest co -design, from overcoming informational asymmetries to forging meeting s of the minds.

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