Paper calendar with yellow pencil laying on top of it. Link to course schedule

View courses by topic or week

Large group shot of people who participated in the courses in 2019 looking up into the camera. link to registration information

View pricing and deadlines

Link to Frequently Asked Questions page

Get all your questions answered

Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM) | May 21 and June 3-7, 2024Two women sitting on the ground while male clinical worker with white coat kneels next to them. He is wearing a mask and swab and collection container.

“[I have an] improved understanding of the key challenges in enhancing PPM and engaging private sector for TB diagnosis and treatment, potential solutions to overcome these challenges, and access to more resources on these topics."

– PPM TB course participant

COURSE FORMAT

Online only. Approximately 9:00am to 12:30pm (Montreal time) each day June 3-7, 2024. In addition, on May 21st from 9:00am-12:00pm there will be an introductory session that all should attend to discuss the course outline and practical homework assignments. Attendance at the introductory session will help participants maximize the course week. A recording of the introductory session and all course lectures will be available until July 1, 2024.

DESCRIPTION

This TB - PPM course offers a week of online teaching and discussions on a range of topics relevant to engaging private providers in TB prevention and care. The course provides discussion panels, presentations, and interaction to deepen your understanding on the following areas of PPM: a) Engaging the Private Sector: Why and What; b) Policy and Financing; c) Partnerships: Operational Planning: d) Implementation and Monitoring; e) Quality of TB Care and New Tools. Faculty and participants will include TB survivors, PPM implementers, donors, policy makers, academics, clinicians, community advocates, public health implementers, and National TB Program managers.

COURSE DIRECTORS

Petra Heitkamp, MSc, MPH
Community Manager, TBPPM Learning Network
McGill University Health Center, Research Institute

Vijayashree Yellappa, MBBS, MPH, FHM, PhD
Founding Chair, TBPPM Learning Network India Chapter
Senior TB Consultant, KNCV, Hague

Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Global and Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University
Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
Former Director, McGill International TB Centre

PREVIOUS COURSE FACULTY

  • Timur Abdullaev – TB People
  • Ramya Ananthakrishnan – REACH, India
  • David Branigan – Treatment Action Group (TAG)
  • Deepti Chavan – Survivors Against TB (SATB)
  • Monica Dias – World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Petra Heitkamp – TBPPM Learning Network
  • Ko Htat – Sun Community Health (SCH), Myanmar
  • Huy Huyhn -- Friends of International TB Relief (FIT), Viet Nam
  • Evaline Kibuchi – Stop TB Kenya
  • Liza Kimbo – Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, Malaria
  • Michael Macharia – Komesha TB, Kenya
  • Francis Mhimbira – World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Lalaine Mortera – FHI360, Philippines
  • Barbara O'Hanlon – Public-Private Dialogue expert, Consultant
  • Bolanle Olusola Faleye – PPM consultant, previously SHOPS-Plus lead Nigeria
  • Charity Omenka – University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Venkat Raman – Delhi University
  • Aamna Rashid – PPM consultant, previously Mercy Corps Pakistan lead PPM
  • Suvanand Sahu – Stop TB Partnership
  • Zolelwa Sifumba – TB Proof
  • Guy Stallworthy – Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Poshan Thapa – McGill University Health Center, International Research
  • Azhee Tseja – TBPPM consultant, Nigeria
  • William Wells – USAID
  • Mohammed Yassin – Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, Malaria
  • Vijayashree Yellappa – TBPPM India

Faculty are still being confirmed and there may be changes to the above list.

CONTENT

Engaging health providers through public-private mix (PPM) approaches is essential to all people affected by TB. PPM is the involvement of all health care providers - public and private, as well as, formal and non-formal - in the provision of TB preventive and care services. This care should align with the International Standards for TB Care for patients who have or are suspected of having tuberculosis. Efforts to engage the private healthcare sector will:

  • Contribute to reaching the 4.1 million people with tuberculosis (TB) who are missing in the TB reporting system;
  • Improve TB services in all steps of the care-cascade and patient pathway;
  • Increase people-centered quality of care for those affected by TB;
  • Prevent further transmission of TB and drug-resistant forms of TB;
  • Build primary healthcare TB service delivery mechanisms closest to the most vulnerable populations, allowing for integrating with other health and disease programs;
  • Accelerate uptake of new WHO recommended TB diagnostics and treatments by private healthcare providers.

This TB PPM course aims to address the above knowledge and practice gaps by providing new knowledge, facilitating discussion, and encouraging debate around these topics.

OBJECTIVES

  • Understand the data, background factors, and conduct of a PPM situation analysis
  • Learn key strategies of the PPM Roadmap and underlying frameworks (financing, policy, regulation, health systems, etc.)
  • Discuss concrete examples of PPM implementation that have worked or failed
  • Apply practical tools to plan, implement, monitor and evaluate PPM programs
  • Learn strategies for overcoming the know-do gap, including partnership strategies, incentives, and system-wide changes that integrate PPM as part of the national health system

TARGET AUDIENCE

  • Government staff in high-TB-burden countries
  • TB staff at technical agencies and NGOs
  • TB consultants
  • NGOs implementing health programs, interested in TB
  • anyone with an interest in PPM and engaging the private healthcare sector in Ending TB

ENROLMENT

Limited to 100 online participants.

Tags: 
Back to top