Congratulations to Giorgia who won the McGill University Faculty of Medicine’s Tomlinson Doctoral Fellowship for the 2017-2018 academic year!
Books and book chapters: new blog post by Madhukar Pai
Is writing a book in medicine worth the effort? Read Madhu’s latest blog on the matter: “Books and book chapters in medicine: is the juice worth the squeeze?” in Nature Microbiology.
New BMGF grant to measure the quality of TB and TB-HIV care in South Africa
Congratulations to Amrita and Madhu for being awarded a new Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grant to measure the quality of TB and TB-HIV care in the private sector in two provinces in South Africa using standardized (mystery) patients! This grant of $538,638 USD will run until January 2020.
Global Health Case Studies: resource book
Check out the Global Health Case Studies book in our resources, and thank you to Sophie and Vaidehi for their contribution to this compilation!
New paper by Anita Svadzian and Madhukar Pai
Read Anita and Madhu’s paper titled “Countries need to step up to end tuberculosis” published in Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative
Under the leadership of Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) has been awarded a 5-year grant to serve as a knowledge management partner to the Stop TB Partnership’s TB REACH initiative. The initiative, funded in part by Global Affairs Canada, provides one-year grants to partners throughout the world to increase the number of people diagnosed and treated for TB. Successful projects are considered for scale up by other donor agencies and/or national governments. The RI-MUHC’s role for Waves 5-9 is to provide technical assistance to TB REACH projects in two areas: operational research and knowledge dissemination.
In May 2017, members from Dr. Pai’s team travelled to Bangkok, Thailand for an initial gathering of TB REACH Wave 5 grantees from over 20 countries, and the Stop TB Partnership team. Dr. Pai’s team members held three grantee capacity building workshops, 1) Data Collection and Management, 2) Qualitative Research Methods, 3) Health Economics, and hosted an interactive lecture on knowledge dissemination for advocacy. They also held fruitful discussions with members of 23 grantee organizations that had requested technical assistance. Following this successful kick-off meeting, Dr. Pai’s team is enthusiastic to continue to collaborate with the innovative TB REACH projects for this year and the four waves ahead!
New paper from the Gates barriers project
Read the latest paper from our Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project Target product profiles for point-of-care TB testing titled “How patients navigate the diagnostic ecosystem in a fragmented health system: a qualitative study from India” in Global Health Action.
Emily MacLean and Sophie Huddart are awarded Faculty of Medicine studentships
Congratulations to Emily and Sophie, who were both offered McGill University’s Faculty of Medicine studentship for 2017-2018!
New paper from Madhukar Pai and Niaz Banaei
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.