The Health Justice Initiative, a South African NGO that works on health advocacy, published the book “Health Justice Initiative Pandemics and the illumination of “hidden things” – Lessons from South Africa on the global response to Covid-19“. You can read the afterword Madhukar Pai was invited to write “Afterword: Can Global Health abandon saviourism for justice?“.
Congratulations to Lena Faust!
Congratulations to Dr. Lena Faust, who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Lena has been awarded the Banting Fellowship, and will start her postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine next month. Lena is Madhu’s 25th graduate – bravo Madhu!
The importance of integrating TB, UHC and pandemic response agendas
You can read Petra Heitkamp and colleagues’ blog post and “graphic novel” published in PLoS Blogs “Failure to Integrate the UHC, TB, and PPPR Agendas will Squander Resources and Cost Lives“.
Report from the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis
You can read an update from the 2019 Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis report, titled “Scientific advances and the end of tuberculosis: a report from the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis“, from Madhukar Pai and colleagues published in The Lancet.
Madhukar Pai elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
Congratulations to Madhu, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada as a Fellow! You can read the official press release from the Royal Society of Canada, and the news article from McGill University. Bravo!
Book chapter on the diagnosis of TB
Congratulations to Jacob Bigio, Mikashmi Kohli, Giorgia Sulis, Madhukar Pai and colleagues on their book chapter “The evolution of imaging and portable imaging tools to aid tuberculosis diagnosis” published in The Challenge of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century.
Welcome to Poshan Thapa and Luz Villa
A warm welcome to Poshan Thapa and Luz Villa! Poshan is from Nepal, holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, where his thesis was focused on the role and engagement of informal healthcare providers in India’s TB program. He joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow and is working on the TBPPM and the Mi4 AMR projects. Luz is a Peruvian MD who previously worked as a research coordinator at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (including on our Xpert project among others) and as a clinical trial manager at FIND. She is starting an MSc in epidemiology. Welcome!
Improving measurement of TB care cascades – new paper
Read Lena Faust’s latest paper “Improving measurement of tuberculosis care cascades to enhance people-centred care” published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Cost-benefit analysis of the Global Plan to end TB – new paper
Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ latest paper “One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond” published in the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.
White saviours in global health – new paper
You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ paper “Are we training our students to be white saviours in global health?” published in The Lancet.