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.
WHO AMR policy brief
Madhukar Pai served on the expert group that worked on a WHO AMR research agenda, which included priority research questions on DR-TB. You can read the “Global research agenda for antimicrobial resistance in human health” policy brief on WHO’s website.
Welcome to Surbhi Sheokand
A warm welcome to Surbhi Sheokand, who is joining the Pai Global TB Group! She will be contributing to the TB PPM Learning Network, COVET project, and FIND projects (Access and TB Diagnostics and Policies).
Advocacy in Global Health – blog post
Read PLoS Blogs’ guest contributors Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram’s blog post “Single-Issue Advocacy in Global Health: Possibilities and Perils“.
Lessons from COVID-19 in LMICs – synthesis
Madhukar Pai helped put together a Lancet ID series entirely focused on LMICs, “Lessons from COVID-19 to manage infectious diseases in low-income and middle-income countries“. Read his commentary “Leveraging the positives from the pandemic to strengthen infectious disease care in low-income and middle-income countries“, a synthesis of the series.
New MSc graduates
Congratulations to Lavanya Huria, Mikashmi Kohli and Angelina Sassi on graduating! It was a great opportunity to catch up with alumni and friends of the Pai Global TB Group, during the McGill Summer Institutes.
Welcome back to Angie Salomon
Congratulations to Angie, a Pai Global TB Group alumna, who graduated from Queen’s Medical school and won the Dr Jacalyn Duffin Award! She will start her family medicine residency at McGill in July – welcome back!