Archived News & Events

You can read Sonia S Anand and Madhukar Pai’s new paper “Glocal is global: reimagining the training of global health students in high-income countries” published in The Lancet Global Health.

The Health Justice Initiative, a South African NGO that works on health advocacy, published the book “Health Justice Initiative Pandemics and the illumination of “hidden things” – Lessons from South Africa on the global response to Covid-19“. You can read the afterword Madhukar Pai was invited to write “Afterword: Can Global Health abandon saviourism for justice?“.

Congratulations to Dr. Lena Faust, who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Lena has been awarded the Banting Fellowship, and will start her postdoctoral fellowship at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine next month. Lena is Madhu’s 25th graduate – bravo Madhu!

You can read Petra Heitkamp and colleagues’ blog post and “graphic novel” published in PLoS Blogs “Failure to Integrate the UHC, TB, and PPPR Agendas will Squander Resources and Cost Lives“.

You can read an update from the 2019 Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis report, titled “Scientific advances and the end of tuberculosis: a report from the Lancet Commission on Tuberculosis“, from Madhukar Pai and colleagues published in The Lancet.

Congratulations to Madhu, who has been elected to the Royal Society of Canada as a Fellow! You can read the official press release from the Royal Society of Canada, and the news article from McGill University. Bravo!

Congratulations to Jacob Bigio, Mikashmi Kohli, Giorgia Sulis, Madhukar Pai and colleagues on their book chapter “The evolution of imaging and portable imaging tools to aid tuberculosis diagnosis” published in The Challenge of Tuberculosis in the 21st Century.

A warm welcome to Poshan Thapa and Luz Villa! Poshan is from Nepal, holds a PhD from the University of New South Wales, where his thesis was focused on the role and engagement of informal healthcare providers in India’s TB program. He joined us as a Postdoctoral Fellow and is working on the TBPPM and the Mi4 AMR projects. Luz is a Peruvian MD who previously worked as a research coordinator at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (including on our Xpert project among others) and as a clinical trial manager at FIND. She is starting an MSc in epidemiology. Welcome!

Read Lena Faust’s latest paper “Improving measurement of tuberculosis care cascades to enhance people-centred care” published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ latest paper “One Million Lives Saved Per Year: A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023–2030 and Beyond” published in the Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis.