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Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM) | May 26-30, 2025

“[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 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM (Montreal time) each day from May 26–30, 2025. In addition, an introductory session will be held on Tuesday, May 13, from 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM (Montreal time). Attendance is highly recommended, as this session will cover the course outline and practical homework assignments, helping participants make the most of the course week. A recording of the introductory session and all course lectures will be available until July 1, 2025.

DESCRIPTION

This course offers a week of online teaching and discussions on a range of topics relevant to engaging private providers in tuberculosis (TB) prevention and care. The course provides discussion panels, presentations, and interaction to deepen understanding on the following areas of public-private mix: 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
91ÉçÇø Health Center, Research Institute

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

Charity Oga-Omenka, BPharm, MPH, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo

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.