Events and Training

2024

Calendar of Events

January 2024

World Leprosy Day
28 January 2024

https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2024/01/28/default-calendar/world-leprosy-day-2024

February 2024

March 2024

Master of Nursing (TB Management) enrolments for Semester 1, 2024
Close the 3 March 2024

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/tuberculosis/Pages/tb-conference-2023-program.aspx

Lecture: Dr Dick Menzies, Director at McGill International TB Centre Phase 2 trials in treatment of TB disease (or infection) – Why measure inaccurate microbiologic surrogates? What about safety, tolerability and acceptability?
Centenary Institute
20 March 2024

https://www.tbcre.org.au/event-details/talk-from-dr-dick-menzies-director-mcgill-international-tb-centre

Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting
22 – 26 March, 2024 Gold Coast, Queensland

https://tsanzsrsasm.com/

World TB Day 24 March 2024

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-tb-day

https://www.stoptb.org/advocate-to-endtb/world-tb-day

World TB Day Parliamentary Event
25 March 2024 Parliament House Canberra, Australia

https://www.results.org.au/world-tb-day

April 2024

Annual TB Conference: The Union – NAR
16 – 19 April, Baltimore, Maryland USA

https://bclung.ca/nar

The 9th Asia Pacific Region Conference of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
26 – 29 April 2024, Taipei, Taiwan

https://www.aprc2024.org/about-aprc-2024/

May 2024

World Asthma Day 7 May 2024

https://asthma.org.au/get-involved/what-is-on/world-asthma-day/

International Nurses Day 12 May 2024

https://www.icn.ch/how-we-do-it/campaigns/international-nurses-day

The Union Nurses and Allied Health Professionals Webinar
13 May 2024

https://theunion.org/

TBnet Academy 2024, Athens, Greece
26-29 May 2024

TBnet Academy 2024 – Application now open!

World No Tobacco Day
31 May 2024

https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-no-tobacco-day

June 2024

Master of Nursing (TB Management) enrolments for Semester 2, 2022 close 30 June 2024

https://hbook.westernsydney.edu.au/majors-minors/tuberculosis-management-pg-testamur-major/

July 2024

August 2024

September 2024

European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress
7–11 September RX Wien GmbH, Messeplatz 1, 1020 Wien

https://www.ersnet.org/congress-and-events/congress/

October 2024

CHEST Congress
October 6 to 9, Boston, USA

https://www.chestnet.org/Learning-and-Events/Events/CHEST-Annual-Meeting

November 2024

28th Congress of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
7-10 November 2024, Hong Kong

https://www.apsr2024.hk/#

The Union World Conference on Lung Health 2024
12-16 November 2024, Bali, Indonesia

https://theunion.org/our-work/conferences

World COPD Day
20 November 2024

https://goldcopd.org/world-copd-day-2024/

December 2024

World AIDS Day
1 December 2024

http://www.worldaidsday.org.au/internet/wad/Publishing.nsf/content/home

Australian Organisations Hosting Events, Respiratory and TB Related Training Activities

Western Sydney University Master of Nursing (TB Management)

http://handbook.westernsydney.edu.au/hbook/specialisation.aspx?unitset=A4064.1

Australian College of Nursing of Nursing Immunisation, TST & BCG Courses

https://www.acn.edu.au/education/immunisation-courses

https://www.acn.edu.au/education/non-award/immunisation-tuberculosis-tuberculin-skin-test-tst-nsw-only

https://www.acn.edu.au/education/cpd/online/immunisation-tuberculosis-bacillus-calmette-guerin-bcg-nsw-only

NHMRC TB Center of Research Excellence

https://www.tbcre.org.au/

Lung Foundation Australia

https://www.nationalasthma.org.au/health-professionals/education-training/workshop-calendar

Asthma Australia

https://asthma.org.au/what-we-do/training

International Organisations Hosting Events, Respiratory and TB Related Training Activities

The Union – TB and Lung Health courses, conferences and resources

https://theunion.org/our-work/union-courses

https://theunion.org/our-work/conferences

Curry International Tuberculosis Center, University of San Francisco, USA

https://www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/trainings

South Eastern National TB Centre, University of Florida, USA

https://sntc.medicine.ufl.edu/home/index#/training

Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers, New Jersey Medical School, USA

http://globaltb.njms.rutgers.edu/

Heartland National TB Center, University of Texas, USA

https://www.heartlandntbc.org/training.html

US National TB Controllers Association

http://www.tbcontrollers.org

Find TB Resources: the TB education & training resources website

https://www.cdc.gov/tb/education/tb_edu_train_resources.htm

McGill International TB Centre

https://www.mcgill.ca/tb/