Thank you everyone for the fantastic discussions and forging the path forward for the SPARKS collaborations! Work on social protection and health will continue with new and old partnerships! Safe travels everyone, huge thank you to all participants online and off!

And then an experience from Benin - on a pilot study of comprehensive care to patients with TB

Talemwa Nalugwa presenting on Ugandan experience and potential for a hub

Wanga Zembe-Mkabile and Lieve Vanleeuw from @MRCza on SPARKS potential in South Africa

SPARKS hubs presentation - two universities in Brazil - Brasilia University and Federal University of Bahia - academic nucleus of Public Health in Brazil. Mauro Sanches and Joilda Nery

Day 2 of the @network_sparks meeting!

And it's a wrap (for today)! Information overload perhaps, but much food for thought and meeting old and new friends - tomorrow, returning with our future plans. For now, party on 🥳

RT @DrTomWingfield: Go @_KritikaDixit @BholaRai30 @BiratNepal. What a team!.

Near the end of an extremely informative day - @StopTB 's @BeatriceKirubi sharing their experience and work towards combing #socialprotection and #tuberculosis

Corinne Merle from WHO TDR presenting activities on social protection and tuberculosis

Ernesto Jaramillo from WHO - how to further the social protection agenda for health

We cannot link to a single disease - we live in a syndemic world @UN_michael_j

Followed by a talk by @WFP - @juangogogo and @UN_michael_j - epidemiologically smart social protection

Linking with broader health systems and social health protection initiatives

Commentary on points of collaboration by @P4HNetwork

Roundtable: Recent policy developments, policy needs, building relationships - @rasanathan , Nicole Valentine, Delia Boccia, Knut Lönnroth, @BeatriceKirubi - WHO, Stop TB. Looks like a fantastic upcoming session!

And last, but not least in the series of presentations, Carlton Evans and Sumona Datta @Dr_DattaBase on Community Randomized Evaluation of a Socioeconomic.Intervention to Prevent TB (CRESIPT) Project in Peru

Survey showed that despite over half being vulnerable, people were generally not enrolled into social protection programmes.

And then - social protection referral pilot in Uganda by Priya Shete and Talemwa Nalugwa and team

We need to build relationships and dialogue with policymakers - but we need to make these sustainable over time to ensure the policy impact of SPARKS research.