You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ latest review article “Drug-resistant tuberculosis:a persistent global health concern” published in Nature Reviews Microbiology.
World TB day comment
You can read Anurag Bhargava, Maidhavi Bhargava and Madhukar Pai’s comment “Tuberculosis: a biosocial problem that requires biosocial solutions” published in the The Lancet.
Welcome to new team member Vivian Qiang
We’re happy to officially welcome Vivian to the team! Vivian is working on the “The O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health – Structural change for health equity” project. Find out more about Vivian on our team’s webpage.
New editorial from the team
Read the latest editorial from Poshan Thapa, along with Surbhi Sheokand, Petra Heitkamp, Joel Klinton, Madhukar Pai and colleagues, titled “Unlocking the potential of informal healthcare providers in tuberculosis care: insights from India” published in BMJ Global Health.
Congratulations to alumni
Congratulations to Claudia Denkinger on winning the Heisenberg Professorship at Heidelberg University! Read the details in the university’s announcement.
Congratulations to Anurag & Madhavi Bhargava on becoming the inaugural winners of the Dr KV Desikan memorial award, which honors individuals and/or organizations who have made significant contributions in the field of infectious diseases, in community health/ development/rehabilitation and/or the laboratory sciences. Find out more here.
New paper from TBPPM team
Read the TBPPM team’s latest paper “Building a virtual community of practice – The evolution of the TBPPM learning network, India chapter” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Welcome to new team member Ashlyn Beecroft
We’re happy to welcome Ashlyn to our team! Ashlyn is working on the BMGF-funded project “Systematic reviews on sputum expectoration proportion“. Find out more about Ashlyn on our team’s webpage.
NIRT 2024 Advanced TB Diagnostics course
From January 29 to February 2, ICMR-NIRT hosted the 2024 “Advanced TB Diagnostics course – A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region” in Chennai, India. The workshop was led by Dr. Padmapriyadarsini, Director of NIRT, and Dr. Madhukar Pai, as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s initiative.
New CIHR grant on tongue swabs
Congratulations to Poshan Thapa, Madhukar Pai, and the team (including many Pai TB Group alumni), on being awarded a CIHR Project Grant for the Fall 2023 competition! The “Empowering informal healthcare providers to detect tuberculosis using tongue swabs: a field-based, open-label, cluster randomized trial in India” project will kick-off April 1st 2024.
Three new papers from the COVET team
You can read the latest papers from the COVET team:
- Lavanya Huria and team: “Care pathways of individuals with tuberculosis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bandung, Indonesia” published in PLoS Global Public Health
- Angelina Sassi and team: “Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of tuberculosis care in private facilities in Bandung, Indonesia: a repeated cross-sectional standardized patients study” published in BMC Public Health
- Charity Omenka and team: “Individual journeys to tuberculosis care in Nigeria’s private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic” published in BMJ Global Health
Congratulations for a fantastic start of the year!