TY - JOUR T1 - World TB day: a new opportunity to reimagine workplace health JF - BMJ Global Health JO - BMJ Global Health DO - 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005601 VL - 6 IS - 3 SP - e005601 AU - Michael Reid AU - Sachin Silva AU - Eric P Goosby Y1 - 2021/03/01 UR - http://gh.bmj.com/content/6/3/e005601.abstract N2 - Summary boxThe COVID-19 pandemic is forcing employers around the world to do more to protect and maintain the health of their workforce.This renewed attention on workplace health provides a unique opportunity for the private sector to make investments that could improve outcomes for tuberculosis (TB), which prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, claimed more lives every year than any other infectious disease.With COVID-19, there is an opportunity to capitalize on new mandates to go beyond prior protective measures and implement better workplace TB control strategies.Addressing workplace risk of TB, especially in high burden countries must be a global priority if progress in TB control is to be restored.The COVID-19 crisis has led to rapidly changing working patterns for many people, including new forms of remote working, flexible working, social distancing at work and shift work. Unfortunately, COVID-19 has also exposed profound inequities in workplace health risks; those working lower paid jobs carrying the greatest risk. In particular, this pandemic has also shone a light on the problem of presenteeism, that is, the phenomenon of people working when they are sick.1 Here, we outline why presenteeism is such an important global … ER -