Congratulations to Anurag and Madhavi Bhargava on their feature profile in The Lancet! Very inspiring!
Global Health Night 2023
Our team members presented their work during Global Health Night’s poster fair. Below are a few examples:
Advanced TB Diagnostics course – new grant
Congratulations to Madhukar Pai on being awarded a new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant! This project will support capacity building for TB diagnostics through a series of advanced courses on TB diagnostics. The project will be conducted in partnership with NIRT, Chennai, who will be hosting a series of 3 advanced TB diagnostics courses over 3 years.
New health policy paper
You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ paper “Ending TB in South-East Asia: flagship priority and response transformation” published in The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia.
Package inserts of COVID tests – new paper
Read Jacob Bigio and colleagues’ new paper “Accuracy of package inserts of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests: a secondary analysis of manufacturer versus systematic review data” published in The Lancet Microbe.
COVET project meeting
New paper from Poshan Thapa
Congratulations to Poshan Thapa, whose latest PhD thesis paper “Barriers and facilitators to informal healthcare provider engagement in the national tuberculosis elimination program of India: An exploratory study from West Bengal” was just published in PLoS Global Public Health!
Advocacy in global health – new paper
You can read Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram’s new paper “Single-issue advocacy in global health: Possibilities and perils” published in PLoS Global Public Health.
Madhukar Pai appointed Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health
Congratulations to Madhukar Pai, who has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University! You can read the official announcement on McGill’s website.
New paper from Madhukar Pai
You can read Sonia S Anand and Madhukar Pai’s new paper “Glocal is global: reimagining the training of global health students in high-income countries” published in The Lancet Global Health.