Congratulations to Claudia Denkinger on winning the Heisenberg Professorship at Heidelberg University! Read the details in the university’s announcement.
Congratulations to Anurag & Madhavi Bhargava on becoming the inaugural winners of the Dr KV Desikan memorial award, which honors individuals and/or organizations who have made significant contributions in the field of infectious diseases, in community health/ development/rehabilitation and/or the laboratory sciences. Find out more here.
Read the TBPPM team’s latest paper “Building a virtual community of practice – The evolution of the TBPPM learning network, India chapter” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
We’re happy to welcome Ashlyn to our team! Ashlyn is working on the BMGF-funded project “Systematic reviews on sputum expectoration proportion“. Find out more about Ashlyn on our team’s webpage.
From January 29 to February 2, ICMR-NIRT hosted the 2024 “Advanced TB Diagnostics course – A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region” in Chennai, India. The workshop was led by Dr. Padmapriyadarsini, Director of NIRT, and Dr. Madhukar Pai, as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s initiative.
Congratulations to Poshan Thapa, Madhukar Pai, and the team (including many Pai TB Group alumni), on being awarded a CIHR Project Grant for the Fall 2023 competition! The “Empowering informal healthcare providers to detect tuberculosis using tongue swabs: a field-based, open-label, cluster randomized trial in India” project will kick-off April 1st 2024.
You can read the latest papers from the COVET team:
Congratulations for a fantastic start of the year!
You can read Emily MacLean and colleagues’ new guideline paper “Tuberculosis treatment monitoring tests during routine practice: study design guidance” published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Congratulations to Poshan, who was awarded an RI-MUHC postdoctoral fellowship for 2024!
You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ reflection “Editors as allies: Our two-year experience at PLOS Global Public Health” published in PLoS Global Public Health.
The QuTUB team recently published “The family doctor: health, kin testing and primary care in Patna, India“, which you can read in Anthropology & Medicine.