Paul Farmer recently visited McGill University to deliver the Victor Dzau and Ruth Cooper-Dzau Distinguished Lecture in Global Health. Read some key takeaways from Madhu’s conversation with him in Nature Microbiology: “Insights from an inspiring global health leader“.
WHO Essential Diagnostics List – Blog post
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “Health care is an essential human right – and so is a proper diagnosis” published in The Conversation.
Launch of the new teachepi website
Our team’s new and improved teachepi website has been officially launched! The teachepi website was designed to bring together useful resources for learning and teaching epidemiology: lectures, case studies, calculation tools, and much more. Visit it today!
IDIGH Travel Awards competition
The IDIGH Program is pleased to announce the 2018 Trainee Travel Awards competition to support students and post-doctoral fellows who wish to present their research findings at national and international conferences. To apply, complete the online application before June 30.
New paper from the team in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
Read our team’s latest paper “New TB tools need to be affordable in the private sector: The case study of Xpert MTB/RIF” published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.
Madhukar Pai’s new blog post
Read Madhu’s latest post in Nature Microbiology “The Science of Improvement: TB Cannot Afford to Lag Behind“.
Welcome to Angie Salomon
We’d like to officially welcome Angie to our group! She recently completed her MPH in epidemiology at the University of Toronto, and has also interned at Grand Challenges Canada. You can see her profile on the team’s page.
Congratulations to our latest award/fellowship recipients
Congratulations to Amrita Daftary who has been awarded an FRQS Junior 1 salary award, Emily MacLean who was awarded an FRQS doctoral fellowship, and Maddee Nash who has been awarded a CIHR Master’s fellowship and an FRQS masters fellowship!
CAHR 2018: presentation from Amrita Daftary
At the latest edition of the Canadian AIDS Conference (CAHR 2018), Amrita gave a talk entitled “Sexual Encounters Among Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Post Arrival in Canada: a Reconstructed Vulnerability to HIV?”. The conference booklet can be accessed here.
New paper from Amrita Daftary
Read the latest paper from Amrita and colleagues “Pilot evaluation of a second-generation electronic pill box for adherence to Bedaquiline and antiretroviral therapy in drug-resistant TB/HIV co-infected patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa“, published in BMC Infectious Diseases.