Read Madhu’s post on “global health consulting malpractice“. You can also download the slides summarizing the 10 fixes.
Thank you to Danielle Cazabon
We’d like to thank Danielle for her valuable contribution as Lead Program Officer for the TB REACH Knowledge Management project over the last 3 years. She will soon be joining Resolve to Save Lives, a Foundation in NYC. We wish her best of luck in the next phase of her career!
Technical consultation on latent TB infection management
On September 16 and 17, the World Health Organization (WHO) Global TB Programme and the WHO Collaborating Centre in TB Research at McGill University, Montreal, Canada held a two-day technical consultation on research on latent TB infection. Around 40 participants attended the meeting representing the TB research community, national TB programmes, civil society, technical and implementation partners, and donor agencies.
Conducting standardized patient studies on quality of care – Manual and toolkit
The QuTUB team has published a paper on how to conduct standardized patient studies on quality of care in BMJ Global Health, as well as a manual and toolkit, which offers practical advice, forms, instruments, etc. You can also read the accompanying editorial, and find out more about the QuTUB project on its website.
Online lecture on Quality of TB Care from Madhukar Pai
Be sure to watch Madhu’s latest lecture on Quality of TB Care!
New paper on CAD
Read Madhu and colleagues’ latest paper on CAD “A systematic review of the diagnostic accuracy of artificial intelligence-based computer programs to analyze chest x-rays for pulmonary tuberculosis” published in PLoS One.
Welcome to new team members
The Pai Global TB Group is happy to welcome 3 new members to its team! Paulami Sen, who was working with the group as a junior assistant, will start an MSc under Madhu’s supervision. We’re also welcoming Charity Omenka as a Project Manager for the McGill International TB Centre and the new Private Provider Engagement project, as well as Petra Heitkamp as the Community Manager for the same project. Find out more about them on our website. Welcome!
Case study from Lena Faust
Check out Lena’s case study “The Roll-out of Child-friendly Fixed-dose Combination TB Formulations in High-TB-Burden Countries: A Case Study of STEP-TB” published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.
Essential medicines and diagnostics – New paper
Read the latest paper “Essential medicines and essential diagnostics: a package deal” from Madhukar Pai, Kamini Walia
and Catharina C Boehme published in The Lancet Public Health.
Quality improvement for TB care – New paper
Read Madhu’s latest paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases “Improving the cascade of global tuberculosis care: moving from the “what” to the “how” of quality improvement“.