Community-Wide TPT for TB Control: Insights from the Alaska and Thibela Trials with Associate Professor Suman Majumdar

The ACTnet Asia‑Pacific Regional TB Journal Club made an exciting return for 2026 with our first session on Tuesday, 3 March, from 1:00–2:00 PM (AEDT), where we were delighted to welcome Associate Professor Suman Majumdar as our guest speaker.

Suman is the Chief Health Officer and Deputy Program Director (Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness) at the Burnet Institute. An infectious diseases physician and global health researcher, he recently completed his doctoral thesis on strategies to end TB in high‑burden, multidrug‑resistant settings. His work draws on over a decade in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province, where he is Co‑Principal Investigator of the SWEEP‑TB community‑wide screening and prevention study.

In this session, he discussed the following topic and papers:

“Community-Wide TB Preventive Therapy: Insights from Two Landmark Trials”

• Paper 1: Comstock GW, Ferebee SH, Hammes LM. A controlled trial of community-wide isoniazid prophylaxis in Alaska. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1967 Jun;95(6):935-43. doi:…