by Judith Thigpen | Jan 24, 2021 | Currrent
In January 2021, the CTCA Communications Committee (CC) Co-Chairs decided to launch a monthly journal club that takes place the hour before CC meetings. The journal club provides members with an opportunity to read the latest relevant publications for TB CC efforts....
by Judith Thigpen | Dec 24, 2020 | Currrent
At the 2020 Fall TB Controllers Meeting in November, we briefly presented California requirements for Health Care Personnel (HCP) TB Screening and COVID-19 emergency response changes to these requirements. Licensing and Certification and CalOSHA require routine TB...
by Judith Thigpen | Nov 24, 2020 | Currrent
Planning for the 2020 CTCA Conference began in Fall 2019. Volunteer Planning Committee members created a full-day agenda with including new information to share with the TB public health workforce in May 2020. As conference planning progressed and then wrapped, TB...
by Judith Thigpen | Oct 24, 2020 | Currrent
TB Patient Peer Support Navigator, Jackie (she/her), will pilot a peer support outreach effort for CTCA in partnership with the San Diego County Tuberculosis Control and Refugee Health Program. An expert in her own experience with TB and fluent in Spanish and...
by Judith Thigpen | Sep 24, 2020 | Currrent
The CTCA Executive Committee’s top priority this year is to provide the CA public health TB care and prevention community opportunities to come together to focus on TB and have an opportunity to connect with one another during this extended emergency COVID-19...
by ies | Aug 24, 2020 | Currrent
Tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19, a growing concern, July 28, 2020 While we focus on the new threat, an old one may be gaining strength. With medical providers focusing on COVID-19 and patients delaying care, infectious disease experts in California are concerned that...
