You can read “Moving the dial on diagnostics: an update from the Lancet Commission on diagnostics” published in The Lancet.
Global health meetings location: commentary
Read the latest opinion piece from Shashika Bandara, Nhial Deng and Madhukar Pai “The Global North is increasingly unsafe for global health meetings” published in The Lancet.
Two new papers from the COVET team
You can read the latest papers from the COVET team “Pre-treatment direct costs for people with tuberculosis during the COVID-19 pandemic in different healthcare settings in Bandung, Indonesia” published in PLoS One, as well as “A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care” published in BMJ Global Healh.
TB screening – WHO technical document
Congratulations to the many members of the team – present and past – who contributed to the WHO’s “Screening of tuberculosis using computer aided detection software” publication!
Engaging people affected by TB in research – new paper
You can read “Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand: A call to engage communities affected by TB as essential partners in research” published in PLoS Global Public Health, a collaborative paper to which many people from our team participated.
New papers from Ashlyn Beecroft
You can read Ashlyn’s latest published papers “Evidence on Digital HIV Self-Testing From Accuracy to Impact: Updated Systematic Review” in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, as well as “Exploring the diagnostic accuracy of an HIV self-test optimized by a digital app-based solution: Results from a secondary data analysis of a field trial in South Africa” in PLoS Digital Health.
McGill TB Research Day: congratulations to the winners!
The annual TB Research Day of the McGill International TB Centre was held on March 21st. Many team members presented posters, and two won prizes:
- Lena Faust won the Margaret Becklake Prize (best publications) for her paper “Tuberculosis case notifications and outcomes in Peruvian prisons prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national-level interrupted time series analysis“
- Jeyashree Kathiresan won the Third Prize (best posters) for her poster “Cost of TB care and equity in distribution of catastrophic TB care costs across income quintiles in India”
Congratulations!
Madhukar Pai on John Green’s latest book
You can read Madhukar Pai’s perspective on John Green’s latest book “Everything is Tuberculosis” in the Lancet, in the piece titled “The injustice of tuberculosis“.
Congratulations to Alexandra Zimmer
Congratulations to Alexandra Zimmer who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Alex is Madhukar Pai’s 11th PhD graduate! She is set to start a postdoctoral fellowship with Claudia Denkinger (another one of our alumni).
Interview with John Green
Madhukar Pai interviewed best-selling author John Green about his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis. You can read the interview “John Green Tackles An Injustice Called Tuberculosis” in Forbes, and find more about his books on John Green’s website.