Congratulations to Emily who published a paper entitled “Diagnosing active tuberculosis in people living with HIV: an ongoing challenge” in Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS. Her work was also cited at the Union conference, and featured in this new video on the Bm2Dx!
TB conferences in LMIC countries – blog post
You can read Madhu’s latest blog post in Nature Microbiology “TB Conferences: We Must Do Better” on how TB conferences can have greater impact.
Inauguration of the Center for Nutrition Studies
On October 25th, the Center for Nutrition Studies was officially inaugurated at Yenepoya Medical College in Mangalore, India. The Center is led by Dr. Anurag Bhargava, an alumni of the Pai Global TB Group. The Center’s creation was supported by the McGill International TB Centre, and its N-TB app launched earlier this year was created with the help of Tripti Pande from the Pai TB Group. A great international effort!
Welcome to Alexandra Gatto
We’d like to officially welcome Alexandra Gatto to the Pai TB Group’s extended family! Alexandra will manage the McGill International TB Centre under the leadership of Madhu, and also handle Amrita’s research portfolio. Welcome!
Reimagining how TB care is delivered – new post from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest post “TB Care: Reimagined” published in Nature Microbiology.
Op-ed from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest opinion piece “To eliminate TB we need imagination and ambition” published in The Conversation.
Tripti Pande named to the Dean’s list
Congratulations to Tripti who has been named to the Dean’s list at Université Laval for her MSc and thesis!
Call for trial partners from FIND
FIND has announced a call for trial partners is now open for the prospective evaluation of a novel urine test for TB. Find out more on their website; the deadline to submit is January 31st 2019.
IDWeek workshop given by Amrita Daftary
Amrita presented a workshop on “Social Interventions to Increase TB Treatment Adherence” at IDWeek on October 3rd. Find out more on IDWeek’s website.
Blog post from Madhukar Pai – Review of “Diary of a Modern Consumptive”
Read Madhu’s latest blog post on Nature Microbiology reviewing Paul Thorn’s “Diary of a Modern Consumptive”: “The crushing loneliness of having tuberculosis“.