Archived News & Events

Check out Madhu’s latest blog post “We Must Recognize Women For Their Valuable Contributions To Medicine And Science” published in Forbes on International Women’s Day.

Read “Xpert Ultra versus Xpert MTB/RIF for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults with presumptive pulmonary tuberculosis” published in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, with contributions by Mikashmi Kohli and Madhukar Pai.

Madhu is organizing a short online course to introduce epidemiologic concepts to health/science journalists which will take place May 3 to May 7, 2021. The course is reserved for journalists, but you can find out more here.

Read Madhu’s latest blog post “We Can Use The Pandemic To Reimagine Global Health Teaching” published in Forbes. You can access all his teaching material on the teachepi website.

Read Madhu’s post and interview with Paul Farmer “Ebola, Covid-19 And The Elusive Quest For Global Health Equity” in Forbes.

The WHO published a guidance on updated critical concentrations for susceptibility testing for rifampicin. Congratulations to Mikashmi Kohli and Vaidehi Nafade for their contribution!

Congratulations to Tripti who will join Pact as an M&E Officer later this month! The entire team is thankful for all the work she’s done for the past few years for the TB REACH project. Congratulations too to Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez, who will be taking over as Lead Program Officer for this project.

Read Madhu’s blog post “To Improve Access To Diagnostics, Countries Must Adapt The WHO Essential Diagnostics List“, following the WHO publishing its 3rd edition of the list which now includes COVID-19.

Read Madhu’s take on the US reengaging with the WHO “As America Engages With WHO Again, An Overwhelming Sense Of Relief And Hope” published in Forbes.

In November 2020, Seye and Madhu published “Will global health survive its decolonisation?” in The Lancet Global Health. Prompted by their paper, the journal recently published an editorial on the matter as well.