You can read Shashika Bandara’s latest paper “Can we unplug global health education from The Matrix?“, with Ananya Banerjee and Madhukar Pai, in PLOS Global Public Health.
Blog post from Madhukar Pai – Paul Farmer
See the blog post “Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness” published by Madhukar Pai in Forbes.
New paper from the team and colleagues
You can read “Maximizing tuberculosis services through private provider engagement – A case study from Pakistan” from Surbhi Sheokand, Poshan Thapa, Petra Heitkamp and colleagues, published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
News item in The Lancet
Check out the news item published in The Lancet “Historic TB outbreak a wake-up call for US policy makers“, where Madhukar Pai is quoted on this important matter.
Access to essential TB medicines in Canada – report
Stop TB Canada published the report “Access to essential tuberculosis medicines in Canada: Insights from a national survey of healthcare providers“, to which Luz Villa Castillo and Lena Faust greatly contributed. The report highlighted the lack of access to essential TB drugs in Canada, and lack of child-friendly drug formulations. You can also check out this news item about the report.
4 books on TB to read
You can read Madhukar Pai’s latest blog post “Tuberculosis – new warriors take on an old enemy” published in Springer Nature Research Communities, about 4 new books about TB. Stay tuned for his webinar with all 4 authors on TB day.
Congratulations to Toyin Togun
Congratulations to Toyin, one of our alumni, who has been appointed Professor of Global Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)!
New paper from the COVET team
You can read the latest paper from the COVET team “Health and tuberculosis systems resilience, the role of the private sector and pandemic preparedness: insights from a cross-country qualitative study with policy-makers in India, Indonesia and Nigeria” published in BMJ Global Health.
Congratulations to Claudia Denkinger
Congratulations Claudia, one of our alumni, who was promoted to full professor at Heidelberg University!
New paper from Jeyashree Kathiresan
You can read Jeyashree Kathiresan and colleagues’ new paper “Cost of TB care and equity in distribution of catastrophic TB care costs across income quintiles in India” published in BMC Global Health Research and Policy.