Read Elizabeth A. Talbot and Madhukar Pai’s latest paper “Tackling drug-resistant tuberculosis: we need a critical synergy of product and process innovations” published in The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. Also published today in Lung India is Kavitha Saravu and Madhukar Pai’s paper “Drug-resistant tuberculosis: Progress towards shorter and safer regimens“.
Prize for Emily MacLean
Congratulations to Emily who won the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinguet August prize of the FQRNT for her publication “A systematic review of biomarkers to detect active tuberculosis“!
Delivering better therapies for TB – Blog post
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “Better Therapies For TB Are Here, But They Will Not Deliver Themselves” published in Forbes.
New paper on an economic-epidemiological model
Read the latest paper from Hojoon Sohn and colleagues published in BMC Medicine “Informing decision-making for universal access to quality tuberculosis diagnosis in India: an economic-epidemiological model“.
Blog post: failures in global health
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “Archives of Failures in Global Health” on the necessity of compiling a list of failures in global health, published in Nature Microbiology.
Mentorship malpractice and mentee missteps: book review
Read Madhu’s review of the book “The Mentoring Guide” by Vineet Chopra and colleagues, entitled “How can we become better mentors & mentees?“.
New Community of Practice grant
We’re very pleased to announce the start of a new project led by Madhu and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, entitled “Learning Network in support of Private Provider Engagement in TB”. Visit our website to find out more.
Upgrade of the WHO list of essential tests: blog post
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “WHO List of Essential Tests Gets An Upgrade” published in Forbes.
Congratulations and farewells to members of our team
Congratulations to Maddee Nash and Vaidehi Nafade for completing their MSc, and to Paulami Sen for completing her BSc! We’d also like to wish best of luck to Diane Singhroy and Angie Salomon who will both start medical school in the fall!
New paper from Danielle Cazabon and a TB REACH grantee
Congratulations to Danielle for co-authoring this paper, and supporting the TB REACH grantee in Cambodia in this interesting approach to active case finding: Acceptability of active case finding with a seed-and-recruit model to improve tuberculosis case detection and linkage to treatment in Cambodia: A qualitative study.