Congratulations to Giorgia and Madhu for their new editorial “Tuberculosis in Pregnancy: A Treacherous Yet Neglected Issue” published in this month’s edition of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada.
Systematic review from Lena Faust
Read Lena’s latest paper “Recommendations for the screening of paediatric latent tuberculosis infection in indigenous communities: a systematic review of screening strategies among high-risk groups in low-incidence countries” published in BMC Public Health.
Productive summer: new papers from the team
Here are 5 new papers from the team published this summer:
- “Market penetration of Xpert MTB/RIF in high tuberculosis burden countries: A trend analysis from 2014-2016“, with Danielle, Tripti and Madhu
- “A list to cement the rightful place of diagnostics in healthcare“, from Madhu
- “New strategies for inpatients with HIV and tuberculosis“, from Madhu
- “Prevalence of diabetes mellitus amongst hospitalized tuberculosis patients at an Indian tertiary care center: A descriptive analysis“, from Tripti, Sophie and Madhu
- “Regionalization and the Closure of 52 Hospitals in Rural Saskatchewan“, from Danielle
Congratulations to everyone!
Canada’s indifference to TB has put Inuit at great risk – blog post
Read Madhu’s latest blog post in HuffPost to encourage greater Canadian engagement with the UN HLM “Canada’s indifference to tuberculosis has put Inuit at great risk“.
New article in Nature from Angie Salomon
Read Angie’s latest comment article “Grand challenges in humanitarian aid” recently published in Nature. Congrats!
McGill International TB Centre – New executive team
After 5 years, Marcel Behr is stepping down as Director of the McGill International TB Centre, making way for a new team to lead the Centre. Madhukar Pai will step in as Director, and the roles of Associate Directors will be taken on by Amrita Daftary (Global/Population Health), Faiz Ahmad Khan (Clinical Research) and Maziar Divangahi (Fundamental Research). A big thank you to Marcel and congratulations to the new leadership team! You can also read McGill’s story on this.
Recent talk from Amrita Daftary
On June 26, Amrita delivered a talk entitled “A qualitative approach to assessing the drivers of HIV acquisition in Afro-Caribbean immigrants to Canada” as part of the CERIUM Course / Workshop “Migration et santé publique à l’ère de la mondialisation : quelles approches et données pour analyser les enjeux actuels? / Immigration and Public Health in the Era of Globalization: What Approaches and Data Analyses Methods should be used?”.
Team paper: WHO bibliometric analysis
Congratulations to Vaidehi, Maddee, Sophie and the other co-authors for their work on “A bibliometric analysis of tuberculosis research, 2007–2016” recently published in PLoS One! Find out more about the project on our Website.
Factfulness is a must-read book – Blog post from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest blog post on ‘Factfulness’, a book by Hans Rosling “Hans Rosling continues to dazzle and educate us with his brilliant book” published in Nature Microbiology.
Summer Institute 2018 – Thank you
The 2018 Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health was held from June 11-22, and welcomed over 680 participants from 53 countries. Below are pictures of the Advanced TB Diagnostics course attendees, and the NTP managers and TB advocates who attended the course. Material from the course will be posted shortly on our TeachEpi website. Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed!
