Congratulations to Ashlyn Beecroft on her paper “Digital HIV self-testing as an exemplar: a perspective on benefits, challenges, and opportunities” published in Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics.
New paper from Lena Faust
You can read Lena Faust’s latest paper “Case fatality among people with drug-susceptible TB enrolled in a private health sector TB treatment support program in Bihar, India during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic” published in PLoS Global Public Health, with Sophie Huddart and Madhukar Pai among the co-authors.
Good luck to Joel Klinton
The entire team wishes all the best to Joel, who is taking a new position at the Ottawa Public Health department! We’re all grateful for his instrumental contributions to the TBPPM Learning Network.
Welcome to new team members, and alumni news
A warm welcome to Jeyashree Kathiresan, a physician from India who is starting an MSc in epidemiology! We are also welcoming Jacquelyn Yushkov, who is joining the team working on a series of systematic reviews on sputum expectoration, Samantha Ayoub, joining the TBPPM project, and Esme Longley, who will be working on TB global health projects. Welcome!
Many alumni are also starting new degrees:
- Maddee Nash: medical school at Queen’s University
- Jacob Bigio: PhD in epidemiology at McGill University
- Rishav Das: PhD in health policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago
- Angie Sassi: PhD in global health implementation science at UW
- Tripti Pande: DrPH at UNC Chapel Hill
Congratulations!
New paper on AMR
Read Madhukar Pai, Poshan Thapa and colleagues’ new comment paper “Tackling antimicrobial resistance: recognising the proposed five blind spots can accelerate progress” published in The Lancet Microbe.
Mpox outbreaks in Africa – opinion piece
Read the latest opinion piece from Ifedayo MO Adetifa and Madhukar Pai “Mpox outbreaks in Africa—we must avert another failure of global solidarity” published in BMJ.
WHO TPPs for TB diagnostics and drug resistance
Congratulations to everyone (many current and former members of the Pai Global TB Group) who contributed to the WHO’s latest “Target product profiles for tuberculosis diagnosis and detection of drug resistance“.
New editorial in Science
You can read Madhukar Pai and Seye Abimbola’s latest editorial “Science should save all, not just some” published in Science.
Global health meetings and visas – blog post
Read Madhukar Pai’s blog post “Visa-friendly venues for global health meetings” in Springer Nature for an overview of the problem, and tools and resources to lessen its impact.
New paper from Alexandra Zimmer
You can read the latest paper from Alexandra Zimmer and colleagues “Incidence of cough from acute exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in Madagascar: A pilot study” published in PLoS Global Public Health.