A heartfelt congratulations to Amrita Daftary, who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor!
UNAIDS session on decolonizing global health – speech from Dr. Madhukar Pai
Dr. Madhukar Pai delivered a passionate speech during a special UNAIDS session on decolonizing global health “A call to address racism and colonialism in global health“, which garnered a lot of attention, at the recent IAS conference held in Montreal July 29th to August 2nd, 2022. You can watch the video online.
Tuberculosis and COVID-19 – new paper
You can read the latest paper “Adaptations to the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic by private sector tuberculosis care providers in India” from Charity Omenka, Lavanya Huria, Angelina Sassi, Petra Heitkamp, Madhukar Pai and colleagues in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Young activists and climate change – post
Read Madhu’s latest post “Young Climate Justice Activists Are Fighting For Our Collective Survival” in Forbes, where Madhu interviewed 24 young climate activists from around the world.
Congratulations to Charity Omenka and Giorgia Sulis!
Heartfelt congratulations to Charity and Giorgia, who both accepted tenure track positions as Assistant Professors! Charity will be at the School of Public Health Sciences in the Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, and Giorgia will be at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa.
New paper from Alexandra Zimmer
Read Alexandra Zimmer and colleagues’ latest article “Making cough count in tuberculosis care” published in Communications Medicine.
Global Plan to End TB – contributions from the team
The Stop TB Partnership released its Global Plan to End TB 2023-2030, with noted contributions from Jacob Bigio, Mikashmi Kohli, Emily MacLean and Alexandra Zimmer.
New paper from Emily MacLean
Read Emily MacLean and colleagues’ new paper “Bayesian latent class analysis produced diagnostic accuracy estimates that were more interpretable than composite reference standards for extrapulmonary tuberculosis tests” published in Diagnostic and Prognostic Research.
Words matter – a guide to country and people classification
Make sure to check out Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ guide “How we classify countries and people—and why it matters” published in BMJ Global Health.
Travel privileges and global health – blog post
Read Madhukar Pai’s latest blog post on “Passport And Visa Privileges In Global Health” in Forbes.