Archived News & Events

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!

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“.

Read Angie’s latest comment article “Grand challenges in humanitarian aid” recently published in Nature. Congrats!

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.

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?”.

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.

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.

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!

Read the latest editorial from Hannah Dias, Madhukar Pai and Mario Raviglione published in the Indian Journal of Medical Research: “Ending tuberculosis in India: A political challenge & an opportunity“.

On June 14, 2018, Jody gave 3 talks at the 5th SA TB Conference 2018: “Is prevention better than cure? Perceptions of isoniazid preventive therapy in KwaZulu-Natal”, “The role of agency in the implementation of isoniazid preventive therapy: Lessons from oMakoti in uMgungundlovu District, KZN” and “The effectiveness of untargeted 6-month isoniazid preventive therapy to reduce tuberculosis incidence among people living with HIV with and without antriretroviral therapy in KwaZulu-Natal”. Find out more in the conference’s program.