Read PLoS Blogs’ guest contributors Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram’s blog post “Single-Issue Advocacy in Global Health: Possibilities and Perils“.
Lessons from COVID-19 in LMICs – synthesis
Madhukar Pai helped put together a Lancet ID series entirely focused on LMICs, “Lessons from COVID-19 to manage infectious diseases in low-income and middle-income countries“. Read his commentary “Leveraging the positives from the pandemic to strengthen infectious disease care in low-income and middle-income countries“, a synthesis of the series.
New MSc graduates
Congratulations to Lavanya Huria, Mikashmi Kohli and Angelina Sassi on graduating! It was a great opportunity to catch up with alumni and friends of the Pai Global TB Group, during the McGill Summer Institutes.
Welcome back to Angie Salomon
Congratulations to Angie, a Pai Global TB Group alumna, who graduated from Queen’s Medical school and won the Dr Jacalyn Duffin Award! She will start her family medicine residency at McGill in July – welcome back!
New paper from Anita Svadzian
Read Anita and colleagues’ new paper “Use of standardised patients to assess tuberculosis case management by private pharmacies in Patna, India: A repeat cross-sectional study” published in PLoS Global Public Health.
Congratulations to Alice Zwerling!
Congratulations to Alice – Madhu’s very first PhD student – who received tenure and was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa!
Transforming TB diagnosis – commentary
Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ latest commentary “Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis” published in Nature Microbiology.
TB and COVID-19 integrated testing in Peru – new paper
You can read Emily MacLean, Luz Villa-Castillo, Giorgia Sulis, Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ new paper “Integrating tuberculosis and COVID-19 molecular testing in Lima, Peru: a cross-sectional, diagnostic accuracy study” published in The Lancet Microbe.
Annual TB Research Day – congratulations to Emily MacLean
Congratulations to Emily on winning a Student Publication Award at the 10th Annual TB Research Day for her paper “Bayesian latent class analysis produced diagnostic accuracy estimates that were more interpretable than composite reference standards for extrapulmonary tuberculosis test“!
TB surveillance in Canada – commentary
Read Lena Faust and colleagues’ commentary “The state of tuberculosis surveillance in Canada” published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health.