Author Archives: caroline.vadnais@mail.mcgill.ca

Congrats to Charity, who has been selected into the 2023 leadership cohort of WomenLift Health!

Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ new paper “From vaccine to visa apartheid, how anti-Blackness persists in global health” published in PLoS Global Public Health.

Congratulations to Lavanya Huria who will be starting a new job in a Vancouver-based agency shortly, and to Alexandra Zimmer who successfully defended her PhD protocol!

Jacob Bigio will be continuing with our group as a PhD candidate in the epidemiology program as of September 1st, Luz Villa, an MD working as a consultant for FIND based in Lima Peru, will join our team for an MSc in epidemiology for the fall term, and Poshan Thapa, who just finished his PhD at the University of New South Wales Australia, will join us as a postdoctoral fellow later this summer.

Read Petra Heitkamp and Mohammed Yassin’s op-ed “Opinion: Engaging the private sector is vital to ending TB” published in DevEx.

A heartfelt congratulations to Lena, who was one of 24 people selected for the prestigious CIHR Banting postdoctoral award!

Read Anita Svadzian and colleagues’ new paper “Do Private Providers Initiate Anti-Tuberculosis Therapy on the Basis of Chest Radiographs? A Standardised Patient Study in Urban India” published in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia, which was part of her PhD thesis.

Congrats to Mikashmi who submitted her MSc thesis today!

You can read the latest paper from Jacob Bigio, Giorgia Sulis and colleagues “A scoping review on the risk of tuberculosis in specific population groups: can we expand the World Health Organization recommendations?” published in European Respiratory Review.

You can read Madhukar Pai & colleagues’ new paper “The 1/4/6×24 campaign to cure tuberculosis quickly” published in Nature Medicine.

Bravo to Angie for submitting her MSc thesis today!