Archived News & Events

The 2023 Union conference was held in Paris, France, this year. It was also a great opportunity for current and past members of the team to connect in person!

Congratulations to Anurag and Madhavi Bhargava on their feature profile in The Lancet! Very inspiring!

Our team members presented their work during Global Health Night’s poster fair. Below are a few examples:

Congratulations to Madhukar Pai on being awarded a new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant! This project will support capacity building for TB diagnostics through a series of advanced courses on TB diagnostics. The project will be conducted in partnership with NIRT, Chennai, who will be hosting a series of 3 advanced TB diagnostics courses over 3 years.

You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ paper “Ending TB in South-East Asia: flagship priority and response transformation” published in The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia.

Read Jacob Bigio and colleagues’ new paper “Accuracy of package inserts of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests: a secondary analysis of manufacturer versus systematic review data” published in The Lancet Microbe.

On October 6th, the COVET team welcomed Guy Stallworthy, Global Lead for TB Private Provider Engagement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They were also joined by colleagues from the TBPPM team, for a fruitful day of discussions and reflections.

Congratulations to Poshan Thapa, whose latest PhD thesis paper “Barriers and facilitators to informal healthcare provider engagement in the national tuberculosis elimination program of India: An exploratory study from West Bengal” was just published in PLoS Global Public Health!

You can read Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram’s new paper “Single-issue advocacy in global health: Possibilities and perils” published in PLoS Global Public Health.

Congratulations to Madhukar Pai, who has been appointed the inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University! You can read the official announcement on McGill’s website.