Read our team’s latest paper “New TB tools need to be affordable in the private sector: The case study of Xpert MTB/RIF” published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health.
Madhukar Pai’s new blog post
Read Madhu’s latest post in Nature Microbiology “The Science of Improvement: TB Cannot Afford to Lag Behind“.
Welcome to Angie Salomon
We’d like to officially welcome Angie to our group! She recently completed her MPH in epidemiology at the University of Toronto, and has also interned at Grand Challenges Canada. You can see her profile on the team’s page.
Congratulations to our latest award/fellowship recipients
Congratulations to Amrita Daftary who has been awarded an FRQS Junior 1 salary award, Emily MacLean who was awarded an FRQS doctoral fellowship, and Maddee Nash who has been awarded a CIHR Master’s fellowship and an FRQS masters fellowship!
CAHR 2018: presentation from Amrita Daftary
At the latest edition of the Canadian AIDS Conference (CAHR 2018), Amrita gave a talk entitled “Sexual Encounters Among Afro-Caribbean Immigrants Post Arrival in Canada: a Reconstructed Vulnerability to HIV?”. The conference booklet can be accessed here.
New paper from Amrita Daftary
Read the latest paper from Amrita and colleagues “Pilot evaluation of a second-generation electronic pill box for adherence to Bedaquiline and antiretroviral therapy in drug-resistant TB/HIV co-infected patients in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa“, published in BMC Infectious Diseases.
New paper from Emily MacLean and Madhukar Pai
Read Emily and Madhu’s latest paper published in Clinical Chemistry: “Urine Lipoarabinomannan for Tuberculosis Diagnosis: Evolution and Prospects“.
Ego is the enemy – blog post from Madhukar Pai
Read Madhu’s latest blog post “Ego is the Enemy, especially for Academics” in Nature Research Microbiology.
Congratulations to Emily MacLean and Sophie Huddart – Global Health Grads
Congratulations to Emily and Sophie, who were both selected for the first cohort of Global Health Grads at McGill University! They will receive funding to support conducting research internationally in a low or middle income country or in Northern Canada.
New app for nutritional assessment & counselling of patients with TB
On World TB Day, the Center for Nutrition Studies, Yenepoya University, India, in association with McGill International TB Centre, Canada, released N-TB, an android mobile based application for the nutritional assessment and counselling of adult patients with TB. Read all about it in Madhu’s post in Nature Microbiology, and download for free on GooglePlay.