Read Jacob, Madhu and colleagues’ latest paper “Asia emerges as a hotbed of diagnostic innovations for tuberculosis” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Award for Giorgia Sulis
Congratulations to Giorgia for receiving the Outstanding Graduate Student Peer Mentor Award in McGill’s EBOH department!
Contribution from Emily MacLean and Mikashmi Kohli to WHO TPP
The WHO published its latest TPP “Target product profile for next-generation tuberculosis drug-susceptibility testing at peripheral centres“, to which Emily and Mikashmi contributed. Congrats!
Rosemary Barton’s interview with Madhukar Pai
Listen to the interview Madhu gave to Rosemary Barton on CBC’s The Current about COVID-19 and booster shots, or read the transcript.
Alexandra Zimmer awarded a studentship
Congratulations to Alex for winning a McGill Faculty of Medicine studentship award!
New paper from Alexandra Zimmer
Read Alex and colleagues’ latest paper “Can we predict the severe course of COVID-19 – a systematic review and meta-analysis of indicators of clinical outcome?” published in PLoS One.
Reflecting on the decolonization of global health – post
Read Madhu’s latest post “Decolonizing Global Health: A Moment To Reflect On A Movement” published in Forbes.
New meta-analysis from Madhukar Pai and colleagues
You can read “Chest X-ray analysis with deep learning-based software as a triage test for pulmonary tuberculosis: an individual patient data meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy” published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, from Madhu and colleagues.
Madhukar Pai appointed to 2 WHO committees
Congratulations to Madhu who has been appointed to the WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB in the South-East Asia Region (June 1), as well as to the WHO’s Advisory group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Laboratory Strengthening (July 19). Find out more here.
New paper from Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez and colleagues
Congratulations to Nathaly and her TB REACH colleagues on their new paper “Impact of COVID-19 on TB detection in the private sector in Nepal” published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.