Read Joel Klinton’s latest blog post “COVID-19 Response Needs a Course Correction to Attain Vaccine Equity” published in The Public Health Insight.
Residential school deaths from TB – op-ed
Read Lena Faust and Courtney Heffernan’s op-ed “Residential school deaths from tuberculosis weren’t unavoidable – they were caused by deliberate neglect” published in The Globe and Mail.
COVID-19 recommendations for patients and physicians – correspondence
Read the short correspondence from Madhukar Pai and colleague “Choosing Wisely for COVID-19: ten evidence-based recommendations for patients and physicians” published in Nature Medicine.
New paper from Giorgia Sulis
Read Giorgia’s final PhD thesis paper “Sales of antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine in India during the COVID-19 epidemic: An interrupted time series analysis” published in PLoS Medicine.
New paper from Alex Zimmer and Petra Heitkamp
Read the latest paper from Alex, Petra and colleagues “Facility-based directly observed therapy (DOT) for tuberculosis during COVID-19: A community perspective” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Convocation address 2021 – Madhukar Pai
Madhu gave McGill’s Convocation Address for the Spring 2021 class of graduates. Watch his sobering call to action.
Time100 Health Special – Cover story
Congratulations to Madhukar Pai and Gavin Yamey, whose article “How COVID-19 Is Revolutionizing Health Care Around the World” is featured on the cover of a Time100 Health Special issue!
Quality of care for TB and HIV in South Africa – New paper
Read the main paper “Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa” from the project “Standardized patients: An approach to understanding the realities of South Africa’s TB care cascade“, published by Jody Boffa, Angie Salomon, Madhukar Pai, Amrita Daftary and colleagues in BMJ Global Health.
Madhukar Pai – new co-editor in chief of PLoS GPH
Congratulations to Madhu, who is now co-editor in chief of PLoS Global Public Health, a new Open Access journal for diverse research addressing global public health challenges and inequities!
New systematic review from Jacob Bigio and colleagues
You can read “Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review“, from Jacob Bigio, Mikashmi Kohli, Joel Klinton, Emily MacLean, Madhukar Pai and colleagues, published in PLoS One.