Read Madhu’s opinion piece in Nature Microbiology “Surrogate endpoints in global health research: searching for silver bullets?“.
New paper from Amrita Daftary
Read Amrita’s latest paper “Household context and psychosocial impact of childhood multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa” published with colleagues in the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.
Call on the Canadian Government to spend more on international aid
Read Sophie Huddart’s inspiring (and sassy) blog post in Nature Microbiology, calling on the Canadian Government to spend more on international aid in “I spend more on international aid than the Canadian government“, which was also featured in McGill’s Med e-news newsletter.
New publication on insights from our SP work
Read the latest publication “Quality of tuberculosis care by Indian pharmacies: mystery clients offer new insights” from Madhukar Pai, Jishnu Das and Rosalind Miller, in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. This paper has already been covered by News18.com.
Childhood TB diagnosis project featured by MUHC
Read a feature article on the Improving the Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis in High Burden Settings project on the MUHC’s website.
Interview with Toyin Togun on Radio Canada
Read – and listen to – Toyin’s interview on Radio Canada International, about the GCC & Merck-funded project on Improving the Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis in High Burden Settings.
World AIDS Day post by Madlen Nash
Read Maddee’s latest post “To end the HIV epidemic, we need to close the innovation gap” for World AIDS Day on Nature Microbiology.
TB REACH project featured
Our TB REACH project was recently featured in the McGill Faculty of Medicine newsletter. Kudos to the team!
Comprehensive review on childhood TB diagnosis by Toyin Togun
Read the latest publication from Toyin published in Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences “Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis“. This marks the team’s 25th publication of the current calendar year!
New GCC grant announced
Today, Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) publicly announced 20 grants that had been awarded, including Toyin’s pediatric TB test grant! You can find out more about this project to develop blood-based TB test for kids on our website.