Biography

Lara Veeken is a PhD candidate at Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, specialising in tuberculosis epidemiology, as part of a longstanding collaboration with the Research Center for Care and Control of Infectious Disease, Universitas Padjadjaran in Bandung, Indonesia. Her work with the TB modelling group of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine focuses on the impact of tuberculosis screening strategies.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Mind the clinic-community gap: How concerned should we be about false positive tests in community screening?

Clinic-based Xpert specificity likely overestimates the number of false positive Xpert diagnoses in community-wide tuberculosis screening. These findings further support its use in evaluation of community-wide screening for tuberculosis.

Source: Conference 2024