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TB Hackathon: Development and Comparison of Five Models to Predict Subnational Tuberculosis Prevalence in Pakistan

Authors
S Alba, E.J.J Rood, F Mecatti, J.M Ross, P.J Dodd, , S Chang, M Potgieter, G Bertarelli, N.J Henry, K.E LeGrand, W Trouleau, D Shaweno, P MacPherson, Z Zhen Qin, C Mergenthaler, F Giardina, E Augustijn, A Quadir Baloch, A Latif
Publication year
2021

Pakistan’s national tuberculosis control programme is among the many programmes worldwide that value the importance of subnational tuberculosis (TB) burden estimates to support disease control efforts, but do not have reliable estimates.TB Hackathon: Development and Comparison of Five Models to Predict Subnational Tuberculosis Prevalence in Pakistan. Against this backdrop, the Pakistan NTP partnered with KIT epidemiologists to launch a virtual hackathon to estimate the subnational TB burden in Pakistan.