Archived News & Events

Check out Tripti’s interview on being impactful in your job, in which she shares 3 pieces of advice for her fellow global health leaders.

Read Madhu’s latest opinion piece on “How Prestige Journals Remain Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary” published in Forbes.

Read Madhukar Pai and Seye Abimbola’s new paper “Will global health survive its decolonisation?” published in The Lancet.

The McGill Summer Institute is pleased to announce it will be back in 2021! In order to safely welcome as many participants as possible, the Summer Institute will be 100% online from May 31 to June 18, 2021. Registrations will open in January 2021 – save the date!

Read Madhu’s latest blog post “Men in Global Health, Time To ‘Lean Out’” on how men must find ways to create space for diverse voices and perspectives.

Congratulations to the TB/COVID Working Group – ACTION, Global Coalition of TB Activists, Global TB Caucus, KANCO, McGill International TB Centre, RESULTS, Stop TB Partnership Affected Community Delegation, Stop TB Partnership Developing Country NGO Delegation, TBpeople, TBPPM.org, and We Are TB who won the 2020 Stop TB Community Award in the global category! And a special mention to Petra Heitkamp and Alexandra Zimmer who played an important role in this effort.

Read Madhu and colleagues’ new editorial “India’s syndemic of tuberculosis and COVID-19” published in BMJ Global Health.

Congratulations to Charity Omenka, who is starting as a postdoctoral fellowship in the group following the successful completion of her PhD. Charity will be managing the COVID Impact on Private Health Markets project, which will examine the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on TB services in private healthcare in 3 countries – India, Indonesia and Nigeria.

In partnership with Women Political Leaders, Women in Global Health (WGH) and FIND launched their report “Putting health in their hands: testing and women’s empowerment mean better health for all” in a virtual event on November 9th. Our team was happy to contribute to this report, and you can read Madhu’s blog post “With Access To Testing, Women Can Take Charge Of Their Own Health And Deliver Testing” in Forbes.

Read Joel, Charity and Petra’s new paper “TB and COVID – Public and private health sectors adapt to a new reality” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.