Read the latest paper from Alex, Petra and colleagues “Facility-based directly observed therapy (DOT) for tuberculosis during COVID-19: A community perspective” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Convocation address 2021 – Madhukar Pai
Madhu gave McGill’s Convocation Address for the Spring 2021 class of graduates. Watch his sobering call to action.
Time100 Health Special – Cover story
Congratulations to Madhukar Pai and Gavin Yamey, whose article “How COVID-19 Is Revolutionizing Health Care Around the World” is featured on the cover of a Time100 Health Special issue!
Quality of care for TB and HIV in South Africa – New paper
Read the main paper “Quality of care for tuberculosis and HIV in the private health sector: a cross-sectional, standardised patient study in South Africa” from the project “Standardized patients: An approach to understanding the realities of South Africa’s TB care cascade“, published by Jody Boffa, Angie Salomon, Madhukar Pai, Amrita Daftary and colleagues in BMJ Global Health.
Madhukar Pai – new co-editor in chief of PLoS GPH
Congratulations to Madhu, who is now co-editor in chief of PLoS Global Public Health, a new Open Access journal for diverse research addressing global public health challenges and inequities!
New systematic review from Jacob Bigio and colleagues
You can read “Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound for pulmonary tuberculosis: A systematic review“, from Jacob Bigio, Mikashmi Kohli, Joel Klinton, Emily MacLean, Madhukar Pai and colleagues, published in PLoS One.
BCG vaccine’s 100th anniversary – opinion piece
Read Lena Faust and Leigh Raithby’s op-ed on the BCG vaccine “The 100th Anniversary Of A Vaccine Against A Deadly Disease: Not A Cause For Celebration” in HealthAffairs.
PLoS Med paper on global health
Madhukar Pai and colleagues just published “Addressing power asymmetries in global health: Imperatives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic“, which you can read in PLoS Medicine.
COVID-19 vaccine equity – blog post
In Nature Microbiology, you can read Madhu’s blog post “10 reasons why everyone should advocate for Covid-19 vaccine equity“. In short, without widespread and equitable access, the pandemic will not end.
Global health teaching and COVID-19
Read the latest paper from Madhukar Pai and colleagues “Using the COVID-19 pandemic to reimagine global health teaching in high-income countries” published in BMJ Global Health.