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Tuberculosis is a health problem that gets serious attention in the world. Tuberculosis is caused by an infection of the Mycobacterium Tuberculosis bacteria. Mycobacterium Tuberculosis is a type of Bacillus bacterial that is rod-shaped and is acid resistant which grows slowly and is sensitive to ultraviolet light. Family support and prevention efforts are needed to prevent tuberculosis. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between family health task in disease transmission prevention of tuberculosis in family members in the Working Area of Public Health Centre of West Denpasar. This study employed a collaborative analytical design with a cross-sectional approach. To conduct this study, 87 respondents were recruited as the sample through the census sampling technique from all family members in the working area of Public Health Centre West Denpasar. The data were collected using a questionnaire of the family health task and tuberculosis transmission prevention. Findings indicated that the results of the analysis with the Spearman Rho statistical test, there was a significant correlation between family health task and transmission prevention of tuberculosis in family members with a p-value of 0.001.The conclusion of this study is that the better the implementation of family health tasks, the better efforts to prevent the transmission of tuberculosis to family members. Therefore, it is expected that family members can improve their family health tasks hence they can properly prevent the transmission of tuberculosis.