Role
The National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee (NTAC) has an ongoing role to
- consolidate tuberculosis (TB) related activities including
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enhanced national surveillance of epidemiological control indexes
- drug resistance and treatment outcomes
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- provide expert advice to the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) on a coordinated national and international approach to TB control
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develop, review and implement national strategic plans for the control of TB in Australia.
Members
NTAC brings together representatives from:
- TB programs across Australia
- nurse managers with TB expertise
- public health physicians
- clinicians practicing in TB clinics
- thoracic physicians and infectious disease physicians
- the Australian Government Department of Health
- the Public Health Laboratory Network
- the Australasian Society for Infectious Disease
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians’ Paediatrics & Child Health Division
- Australian Government Department of Home Affairs.
Member | State | Affiliation |
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Professor Justin Denholm (Chair) |
VIC |
Victorian Department of Health |
Dr Chris Coulter (Deputy Chair) |
QLD |
Queensland Health |
Ms Ellen Donnan |
NSW |
New South Wales Health |
Dr Marianne Turner |
ACT |
Australian Capital Territory Health |
Dr Vicki Krause |
NT |
Northern Territory Health |
Dr Simone Barry |
SA |
South Australia Health |
Dr David Stock |
TAS |
Tasmanian Department of Health |
Dr Justin Waring |
WA |
Western Australia Health |
Member | Affiliation |
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Dr Gary Lum |
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care |
Dr Shweta Singhal |
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care |
Ms Lila Caplice | Australian Government Department of Home Affairs |
Adjunct Professor George Rubin |
Australian Government Department of Home Affairs |
Name | Affiliation |
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Professor Vitali Sintchenko |
Public Health Laboratory Network |
Professor Ben Marais |
Paediatric specialist, The Children's Hospital at Westmead |
Vacant |
Regional engagement specialist |
Meetings
NTAC meets 3 to 5 times a year.
Related committees or groups
NTAC is a subcommittee of the Communicable Disease Network Australia (CDNA) and works with:
- Public Health Laboratory Network (PHLN)
- Communicable Diseases Genomic Network (CDGN)
- Tuberculosis Data Quality Working Group.
Publications
NTAC publishes its guidelines and position statements in the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal:
- See annual reports on tuberculosis notifications in Australia in the Communicable Diseases Intelligence journal
- Consensus statement on the use of a four-month treatment regimen for drug susceptible tuberculosis in children (< 10 years of age) with uncomplicated disease, 2022
- Not everything that can be counted counts: defining and evaluating tuberculosis mortality in Australia, 2022
- The use of whole genome sequencing for tuberculosis public health activities in Australia: a joint statement of the National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee and Communicable Diseases Genomics Network, 2023
- The Strategic Plan for Control of Tuberculosis in Australia, 2021–2025, 2022
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The Strategic Plan for Control of Tuberculosis in Australia, 2016–2020: Towards Disease Elimination, 2016 (superseded)
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Position statement on interferon-γ release assays for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection, 2017
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National position statement for the management of latent tuberculosis infection, 2017
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Essential Components of a Tuberculosis Control Program within Australia, 2014
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The BCG vaccine: information and recommendations for use in Australia, 2013
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National Tuberculosis Advisory Committee multi-drug resistant tuberculosis Information Paper, 2007
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Guidelines for Australian Mycobacteriology Laboratories, 2006