Archived News & Events

Congratulations to Paulami for successfully completing and submitting your MSc thesis!

Congratulations to Lena Faust, Alexandra Zimmer and Petra Heitkamp for their contributions to the Stop TB Canada report “The Impact of COVID-19 on Canadian Tuberculosis Programs“!

Read Madhu’s latest blog post in Forbes “Covid-19 Wreaks Havoc With The Best Laid Plans To End Tuberculosis” on the WHO’s 2021 Global TB Report.

The new journal PLoS Global Public Health, with Madhukar Pai as Editor in Chief, is now live! Make sure to check out the inaugural issue.

Congrats to Sophie for her contribution to “Clinical standards for the assessment, management and rehabilitation of post-TB lung disease“, published in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Congratulations to Mikashmi Kohli, Pierrick Adam and Madhukar Pai for their contributions to “The Lancet Commission on Diagnostics: Transforming Access to Diagnostics“. You can also read Madhu’s op-ed on the issue in Forbes “A Grim Diagnosis – Half The World’s Population Has Limited Access To Diagnostics“.

You can read “The diagnostic performance of novel skin-based in-vivo tests for tuberculosis infection compared with purified protein derivative tuberculin skin tests and blood-based in vitro interferon-γ release assays: a systematic review and meta-analysis“, a new paper from Lena Faust, Claudia Denkinger and colleagues, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

A big thank you to Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez, who managed the TB REACH project with her colleagues for 2 years. We wish her best of luck!

You can read Madhukar Pai’s latest blog post “Charity And Good Intentions Will Not End The Covid-19 Pandemic” published in Forbes.

Read “Tuberculosis in times of COVID-19“, a new paper from Alexandra, along with Joel Klinton, Charity Omenka, Petra Heitkamp, Madhukar Pai and colleagues, published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.