Biography

Samyra R. Cox, PhD, MPH, is faculty in the Global Disease Epidemiology and Control division at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has fifteen years of global health research and implementation experience with a focus on TB. Dr. Cox combines epidemiologic and implementation research methods to answer policy-relevant questions about optimizing TB interventions. Most of her projects are in India, including the TB Aftermath hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial and the TB Free Schools Initiative.

Expertise

TB Diagnostics
Public Health

Key Impacts

Systematic review of TB screening and diagnostic tools for pregnant and postpartum women

For TBI screening among pregnant and postpartum women with and without HIV, IGRA is likely to detect more TBI than TST. Performance of symptom-based screening and Xpert for TBD was suboptimal. Data was limited for pregnant women without HIV and for other TBD screening and diagnostic tools.

Source: Conference 2024