The report of the HQSS Commission was published today in the Lancet GH. TB is prominently used throughout the report and you can see that by searching for tuberculosis in the PDF. Some of our team’s work is also cited. For this, we can thank Danielle and Tripti, who worked hard with the HQSS team on the TB aspects. Look for their names in the acknowledgements section! Check out also Madhu’s blog post on the subject in Nature Microbiology.
Welcome to Lena Faust
Lena is joining the Pai TB Group to do a PhD, with Madhu serving as her supervisor. Welcome Lena!
Cochrane review from Mikashmi Kohli
Congratulations to Mikashmi and her co-authors for their new Cochrane systematic review “Xpert MTB/RIF assay for extrapulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance“!
NIH award for Amrita Daftary
Congratulations to Amrita who is Co-Investigator on a new NIH R21 award: Evaluating a multimodal behavioral intervention to reduce stigma in HIV/drug resistant TB in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (PI: O’Donnell MR, Columbia University)!
Guest editorial on TB and pregnancy from Giorgia Sulis and Madhukar Pai
Congratulations to Giorgia and Madhu for their new editorial “Tuberculosis in Pregnancy: A Treacherous Yet Neglected Issue” published in this month’s edition of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.
Systematic review from Lena Faust
Read Lena’s latest paper “Recommendations for the screening of paediatric latent tuberculosis infection in indigenous communities: a systematic review of screening strategies among high-risk groups in low-incidence countries” published in BMC Public Health.
Productive summer: new papers from the team
Here are 5 new papers from the team published this summer:
- “Market penetration of Xpert MTB/RIF in high tuberculosis burden countries: A trend analysis from 2014-2016“, with Danielle, Tripti and Madhu
- “A list to cement the rightful place of diagnostics in healthcare“, from Madhu
- “New strategies for inpatients with HIV and tuberculosis“, from Madhu
- “Prevalence of diabetes mellitus amongst hospitalized tuberculosis patients at an Indian tertiary care center: A descriptive analysis“, from Tripti, Sophie and Madhu
- “Regionalization and the Closure of 52 Hospitals in Rural Saskatchewan“, from Danielle
Congratulations to everyone!
Canada’s indifference to TB has put Inuit at great risk – blog post
Read Madhu’s latest blog post in HuffPost to encourage greater Canadian engagement with the UN HLM “Canada’s indifference to tuberculosis has put Inuit at great risk“.
New article in Nature from Angie Salomon
Read Angie’s latest comment article “Grand challenges in humanitarian aid” recently published in Nature. Congrats!
McGill International TB Centre – New executive team
After 5 years, Marcel Behr is stepping down as Director of the McGill International TB Centre, making way for a new team to lead the Centre. Madhukar Pai will step in as Director, and the roles of Associate Directors will be taken on by Amrita Daftary (Global/Population Health), Faiz Ahmad Khan (Clinical Research) and Maziar Divangahi (Fundamental Research). A big thank you to Marcel and congratulations to the new leadership team! You can also read McGill’s story on this.