TB Seminar -Dr. Luz Castillo

Luz Villa is a Peruvian physician with experience in infectious disease diagnostics. She coordinated multicentre studies on the early diagnosis of tuberculosis in high-burden countries at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute of Tropical Medicine in Lima and later at FIND, a WHO Collaborating Centre in Geneva. She holds an MSc in Epidemiology from McGill University, where her thesis, supervised by Dr. Pai, focused on drug-resistant tuberculosis and incarceration. She currently works as an epidemiologist on the TB and HIV surveillance in the Paris region at Santé publique France, the French Public Health Agency.

Title: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis cases in the incarcerated population in Peru. A national-level comparative analysis.

Please join us on Friday, May 29th, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm EST via Zoom by using this link or meeting ID: 825 5213 8895 with passcode: TBFacts. If you would like to attend the session in person, please go to 5252 Blvd de Maisonneuve O, Montreal, QC H4A 3S5, 3rd Floor, Room 3D.01.