Welcome: Next Era of TBPPM Learning Network

Dear Colleagues, Partners, and Members of the TBPPM Learning Network,

We are delighted to welcome you to a new era of the TBPPM Learning Network!

Over the past years, TBPPM LN has evolved into more than a community of practice. It has become a global knowledge exchange center connecting implementers, national TB programmes, researchers, civil society, private providers, and frontline health workers across regions. The Network has served as a trusted space where field realities inform policy dialogue, country innovations are shared across borders, and practical solutions are shaped through peer learning.

Today, the urgency of this work has never been greater.

Health systems worldwide are under financial strain. Care seeking patterns are shifting. New diagnostics, digital tools, and service delivery models are emerging rapidly. At the same time, millions of people with TB continue to seek care first in community and private settings that remain insufficiently integrated into national responses. Achieving global TB goals will depend on how effectively countries can bridge this divide.

The TBPPM Learning Network exists to help make that bridge possible.

Following an open and transparent selection process, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation (The Hague), and iLINQ2 will jointly co-host and steward the Network, in strategic partnership with the Oga-Omenka Global Health Lab at the University of Waterloo, Canada as academic and research lead. This partnership combines implementation expertise, learning systems design, and research capacity to strengthen the Network’s role as a global engine for applied knowledge, country learning, and system innovation.

In this next phase, the TBPPM Learning Network will:

• Strengthen country-led PPM innovation through structured peer learning, technical exchange, and documentation of scalable models
• Embed PPM within primary health care and community systems, aligning with broader health system strengthening agendas
• Amplify frontline and private provider voices, ensuring policies are informed by delivery realities
• Translate implementation experience into global learning goods, tools, and policy-relevant evidence
• Sustain South–South and South–North knowledge flows, maintaining the Network’s distinctive practitioner-driven character

Our ambition is clear: to position TBPPM LN as a global public good for learning, collaboration, and implementation support enabling countries to design smarter, more inclusive TB responses that reach people where they actually seek care.

This Network will continue to be shaped by its members. Its strength lies in collective ownership, shared experience, and the willingness to learn across contexts.

We invite partners, donors, institutions, and practitioners to engage with us in sustaining and growing this platform not only as a network, but as a catalyst for more equitable, effective TB systems worldwide.

Thank you for being part of this journey.

The next chapter begins with you.

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With appreciation, On behalf of the TBPPM Learning Network leadership

Petra Heitkamp, iLINQ2

Vijayashree Yellappa, KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Hague, Netherlands

Charity Oga-Omenka, Oga-Omenka Global Health Lab, University of Waterloo, Canada