The 5th McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health was held June 10-21 this year. It welcomed 550 participants, including 150 faculty members, from 43 countries. Below are pictures from the Advanced TB Diagnostics course, and the new Quality of TB Care course. Thank you to everyone who participated!
Read our latest publication on our quality of TB care work using SPs “Lessons on the quality of tuberculosis diagnosis from standardized patients in China, India, Kenya, and South Africa” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Check out The Lancet Respiratory Medicine’s spotlight on our work on quality of TB care and re-imagining TB care “Finding the missing millions affected by tuberculosis is one thing; treating them is another“.
Read the latest Cochrane review from David Horne, Mikashmi Kohli and colleagues “Xpert MTB/RIF and Xpert MTB/RIF Ultra for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults“, and check out the news story from LSTM “Xpert Ultra test for diagnosing TB now included in Cochrane Review“.
Our IC-IMPACTS project Engaging Community Pharmacists in India to Enhance Early Detection of Tuberculosis generated a lot of coverage, including two new items: “Community pharmacists can help track tuberculosis patients, study finds” in The Indian Express, and “How Pharmacies Can Help India’s Battle Against TB” in India Spend.
Dr. Pierrick Adam is joining the Pai Global TB Group as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Pierrick completed his medical degree with a specialised medical studies diploma in Public Health and Social Medicine in Paris (France) in 2018 – find out more about his background and experience on our team’s website. Welcome Pierrick!
Read Madhu’s latest post in Forbes “Can Pharmacies Improve Global Health Delivery By Taking Tests Closer to People?” to find out.
Read our team’s two latest papers “What will it take to eliminate drug-resistant tuberculosis?” published in The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, and “Self-reported tuberculosis in India: evidence from NFHS-4” published in BMJ Global Health.
Read the blog post from Madhukar Pai, Catharina Boehme and Ilona Kickbusch “Diagnostics are essential for universal health coverage to succeed” published in Stat.
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “A Resource For Global Health Innovators” published in Forbes.