Congratulations to Emily MacLean for successfully defending and earning her PhD!
World TB Day – must reads
You can read a selection of articles, editorials, news and blog posts from the team for World TB Day:
- “When it comes to stopping tuberculosis, what is actually “missing”?“, an article by Farahdiba Zalika Fatah, Jennifer Furin and Madhukar Pai in PLoS Global Health
- “The intersecting pandemics of tuberculosis and COVID-19: population-level and patient-level impact, clinical presentation, and corrective interventions“, a collaborative article by Keertan Dheda, Madhukar Pai and colleagues in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine
- “It is not too late to achieve global covid-19 vaccine equity“, an analysis by Gavin Yamey, Madhukar Pai and colleagues published in BMJ
- “Special Collection: Diagnosing Tuberculosis“, a Cochrane special collection of systematic reviews on tests for tuberculosis disease and tuberculosis drug resistance curated by Mikashmi Kohli and colleagues
- “Global Health Is Broken, But Young People Plan To Repair It“, a blog post by Madhukar Pai published in Forbes
- Congratulations to Jody Boffa for winning the Dr Margaret Becklake award for outcomes research in the postdoctoral category for her paper “Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa” published in BMJ Global Health
- “Canada is failing to track an ancient but deadly infectious disease“, a piece by Lena Faust published in Healthy Debate
Review from Lena Faust of “Phantom Plague”
You can read Lena’s review of “Phantom Plague” by Vidya Krishnan published in the PLoS Blog Posts.
Disrupting global health – post
Read Madhukar Pai’s post “Disrupting Global Health: From Allyship To Collective Liberation” published in Forbes, which generated a lot of responses, including this one.
Childhood TB – editorial
You can read the editorial by Madhukar Pai and Heather J. Zar published in The New England Journal of Medicine “Childhood Tuberculosis — Time for Shorter and Differentiated Treatment“, which accompanies the article “Shorter Treatment for Nonsevere Tuberculosis in African and Indian Children“.
COVID: on the verge of becoming a poor-country disease – post
Read the piece “The Pandemic Is Following a Very Predictable and Depressing Pattern” by Nadia A. Sam-Agudu, Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, Fredros Okumu and Madhukar Pai, published in The Atlantic.
New paper from Emily MacLean
Read the latest paper from Emily and team “Integrated testing for TB and COVID-19” published in Med.
Latest post from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest Forbes post “Double Agents In Global Health“.
New paper from South Africa SP study
Read the latest paper from the South Africa standardized patient project “Prescribing practices for presumptive TB among private general practitioners in South Africa: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study” published in BMJ Global Health.
New paper on the BCG World Atlas
Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ new paper “Tracking changes in national BCG vaccination policies and practices using the BCG World Atlas” published in BMJ Global Health. You can access the BCG World Atlas’s 3rd edition on our website.