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.
Nutrition and TB – new papers
You can read Anurag & Madhavi Bhargava’s landmark RATIONS trial papers in The Lancet “Nutritional supplementation to prevent tuberculosis incidence in household contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in India (RATIONS): a field-based, open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled trial” and The Lancet Global Health “Nutritional support for adult patients with microbiologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis: outcomes in a programmatic cohort nested within the RATIONS trial in Jharkhand, India“. RATIONS is the first-ever trial to study the effect of nutritional supplementation with food baskets and micronutrients on TB incidence in 10,345 household contacts of 2,800 patients with lung TB undergoing treatment in rural India.
New paper on TB diagnostics
Read Madhukar Pai, Petra Heitkamp and colleagues’ new paper “Diagnostics to support the scaling up of shorter, safer tuberculosis regimens” published in The Lancet Microbe.
Accountability for Canada’s COVID-19 response – new paper
Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ new paper “Canada’s role in covid-19 global vaccine equity failures” published in BMJ.
Pharmacy engagement – new paper
You can read “Pharmacy engagement in TB prevention and care: not if, but how?” published in BMJ Global Health, from co-authors Petra Heitkamp, Namrata Rana, Joel Klinton, Giorgia Sulis, Charity Omenka, Madhukar Pai and colleagues.
New paper from Jacob Bigio and team
Read the latest paper from Jacob Bigio, Rishav Das, Madhukar Pai and colleagues “The inclusion of diagnostics in national health insurance schemes in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Viet Nam” published in BMJ Global Health.