You can read Anita and Madhu’s new blog posts, following the publication by the WHO of a list of antibiotic-resistant “priority pathogens”, and its omission of TB: “Regardless of the WHO snafu, tuberculosis should be a priority in the global AMR response” and “The TB community can’t catch a break“.
3 New Papers from Madhukar Pai
Ahead of World TB Day, here are 2 new papers from Madhu: “Reducing global tuberculosis deaths—time for India to step up” and “India’s plan to eliminate tuberculosis by 2025: converting rhetoric into reality“. You can also read his latest blog post: “Opinion: In India, eliminating tuberculosis isn’t just a health issue — it’s an economic one“.
Launch of the PLoS TB Channel
The new PLoS TB Channel has been launched!
Blog Post by Danielle Cazabon
You can read Danielle’s latest blog post in Nature Microbiology: “Will you be an advocate on World TB day 2017?”.
Launch of the BCG World Atlas, 2nd Edition
Ahead of World TB Day, the second edition of the BCG World Atlas was launched. Find out more in Madhu’s blog post “Tracking TB Vaccination Policies and Practices Through Space and Time“, and visit the revamped website www.bcgatlas.org, and its feature on our resources page.
New Paper by Madhukar Pai and Robyn Lee
Madhu has a new paper out, with Robyn Lee, to be published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology: “Real-time sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis“. Congratulations!
New Blog Post by Anita Svadzian
Check out Anita’s blog post in Nature Microbiology, published as World TB Day gets closer.
3 New Papers from the Team
The team has 3 new papers in the recent “Special Issue: Commemorating World Tuberculosis Day 2017” of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.
- Congratulations to Emily (and Madhu) for “A tuberculosis biomarker database: the key to novel TB diagnostics” in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases!
- Congratulations as well to Danielle, Amrita (and Srinath and Madhu) for “Quality of tuberculosis care in high burden countries: the urgent need to address gaps in the care cascade” published in the same journal!
- And finally, congratulations to Amrita for “Tuberculosis stigma as a social determinant of health: a systematic mapping review of research in low incidence countries” in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases!
New Students Joining our Team in the Fall of 2017
Congratulations to Anita Svadzian and Giorgia Sulis who will start their PhD in Epidemiology at McGill University in the Fall of 2017, with Prof. Madhukar Pai as their supervisor. Anita completed her MPH at Boston University earlier this year, and is currently a Project Manager in the Pai TB Research Group for the UNOPS – Stop TB Partnership – TB REACH funded project “Knowledge Management Support for TB REACH 2016-2020/21”. Giorgia is currently finishing her fellowship in Infectious and Diseases at the University of Brescia, Italy.
IDIGH Research Day Deadline – Extended
The deadline to submit abstracts for the 2017 IDIGH Research Day has been extended to March 10th 2017.
To submit an abstract: https://goo.gl/forms/7X9illiJVYARQew13
To register for the event: https://goo.gl/forms/sDRYYrkfSayDdceH3