Read Madhu’s interview “Pandemic Or Not, Experts Need To Be Self-Aware And Humble” with philosophy professor and author Nathan Ballantyne on the dangers of ‘epistemic trespassing’ – where experts in one area jump into another (e.g. Covid-19) and muddy the waters – published in Forbes.
Congratulations to Sophie Huddart and Charity Omenka, PhD graduates
Congratulations to Sophie and Charity, who successfully defended their PhD theses! Sophie is now starting a postdoctoral fellowship at UCSF, and Charity will manage the new COVID Impact on Private Health Markets project as a postdoctoral fellow in the Pai Global TB Group.
Two new papers on TB case finding from the team
Read Tripti Pande and colleagues’ new paper “Islands of Tuberculosis Elimination: An Evaluation of Community-Based Active Case Finding in North Sumatra, Indonesia” published in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, and Charity Omenka and colleagues’ new paper “Commentary: Lessons from the COVID-19 global health response to inform TB case finding” published in Healthcare.
Reimagining TB care post-COVID-19 – Blog post
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “It’s Time To Use Covid-19 Innovations And Systems To Reimagine TB Care” published in Forbes.
New paper on COVID-19 testing in LMICs
Read the latest paper from Lena Faust, Alexandra Zimmer, Mikashmi Kohli, Jody Boffa, Madhukar Pai and colleagues on “SARS-CoV-2 testing in low- and middle-income countries: availability and affordability in the private health sector” published in Microbes and Infection.
Drug-resistant TB in Nigeria – New paper from Charity Omenka
Find out more about the DR-TB care cascade in Nigeria in Charity’s paper “Understanding the gaps in DR-TB care cascade in Nigeria: A sequential mixed-method study” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
New paper from Anita Svadzian and Giorgia Sulis
Read Anita, Giorgia and colleagues’ new paper “Differential yield of universal versus selective drug susceptibility testing of patients with tuberculosis in high-burden countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis” published in BMJ Global Health.
Non-communicable diseases and COVID-19 – Blog post
Read Madhu’s latest piece in Forbes “As We Fight The Coronavirus Pandemic, We Cannot Ignore Non-Communicable Diseases“.
McGill International TB Centre leadership
As of October 15, Madhukar Pai will hand over the directorship of the McGill International TB Centre to Dick Menzies, who is also the director of the WHO Collaborating Centre in TB Research at McGill University. Madhu has led the TB Centre since July 2018, and the entire community is very grateful for his leadership over the past 2 years!
New paper on essential diagnostics in Peru
Read the latest paper from our team and colleagues “Availability of essential diagnostics at primary care public clinics in Peru” published in Microbes and Infection.