Read Madhu’s latest paper on “Detecting New Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection: Time for a More Nuanced Interpretation of QuantiFERON Conversions” published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
4 new publications from the team
Read Maddee’s new publication in The Lancet Global Health “Use of the GeneXpert tuberculosis system for HIV viral load testing in India“, as well as Madhu’s three new papers “Implementation of the Xpert MTB/RIF assay for tuberculosis in Mongolia: a qualitative exploration of barriers and enablers” in PeerJ, “Computer-aided reading of tuberculosis chest radiography: moving the research agenda forward to inform policy” in The European Respiratory Journal, and “Diagnosing at Point of Care in South India” in Science & Technology Studies.
Amrita Daftary’s interview about the IC-IMPACTS project
Read Amrita’s interview about the IC-IMPACTS project “Reducing time for TB diagnosis” in Education Times.
Nature Microbiology Post
The G20 leaders’ declaration, published today, carries an important section on AMR, and tuberculosis is identified as a priority for R&D. Read more in Madhu’s post.
New HuffPost from Madhukar Pai and Deepti Chavan
Read Madhu and Deepti’s latest HuffPost on “How Can We Eliminate TB If We Keep Settling For Less?“.
New paper by Madhukar Pai and Giorgia Sulis
Read Madhu and Giorgia’s new paper on “Missing tuberculosis patients in the private sector: business as usual will not deliver results” in Public Health Action. Congratulations!
Huff post article on Nandita and Deepti
Check out this interesting piece by Madhu on Nandita and Deepti, the 2 TB survivors who attended the Summer Institute.
Madhukar Pai’s interview on TB in IndiaSpend
Read Madhukar Pai’s interview on TB in IndiaSpend to learn:
- Why he thinks TB has continued to be a major problem in India
- If India doing enough to tackle the TB menace
- What major steps India’s RNTCP has taken which will help reduce India’s TB burden
- If he thinks India will be able to eliminate the TB epidemic by 2025
- What the main challenges in diagnosing TB in India are
- and more!
New MOOC course with Madhukar Pai – reminder
Register for the second edition of the free online course “Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety” from Harvard University, featuring a lecture from Madhu, which starts June 27th 2017.
Alumni from the Pai Global TB Group win prizes
Samuel Schumacher (PhD graduate) and Andy McDowell (postdoctoral fellow), both alumni from the group, won prizes for best papers at this year’s McGill TB Centre Trainee Day. Samuel was awarded the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in Clinical Research by a graduate student for “Diagnostic Test Accuracy in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Bayesian Latent Class Analysis“. Andy was awarded the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in Clinical Research by a postdoctoral fellow for “Treatment as diagnosis and diagnosis as treatment: empirical management of presumptive tuberculosis in India“. This is in addition to Sophie and Emily, who both won travel awards.
