Global Lecture Series

November Global Lecture Series

Baylor Global Tuberculosis Research in sub-Saharan Africa

Speaker: Alexander Kay, M.D.
Date: Nov. 10, 2026
Time: 10 - 11 a.m. CT

Dr. Kay will present some results from the TB GAPS study, a CDC-funded multi-country cohort in Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. He will share early findings on the performance of TB screening and diagnostic approaches in children living with HIV. He will then describe new work with wastewater-based surveillance in Eswatini to detect TB and HIV at the community level as a complement to public health interventions.

Alexander Kay, M.D., is an associate professor of pediatrics in the Division of Global Health at Baylor College of Medicine. He directs the Baylor Global TB Program and is based full-time in Mbabane, Eswatini, at the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation–Eswatini. His research covers pediatric TB diagnosis and treatment, HIV program implementation, and wastewater-based surveillance of TB and HIV.

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