Archived News & Events

You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ paper “Are we training our students to be white saviours in global health?” published in The Lancet.

You can read Anurag & Madhavi Bhargava’s landmark RATIONS trial papers in The Lancet “Nutritional supplementation to prevent tuberculosis incidence in household contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in India (RATIONS): a field-based, open-label, cluster-randomised, controlled trial” and The Lancet Global Health “Nutritional support for adult patients with microbiologically confirmed pulmonary tuberculosis: outcomes in a programmatic cohort nested within the RATIONS trial in Jharkhand, India“. RATIONS is the first-ever trial to study the effect of nutritional supplementation with food baskets and micronutrients on TB incidence in 10,345 household contacts of 2,800 patients with lung TB undergoing treatment in rural India.

Read Madhukar Pai, Petra Heitkamp and colleagues’ new paper “Diagnostics to support the scaling up of shorter, safer tuberculosis regimens” published in The Lancet Microbe.

Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ new paper “Canada’s role in covid-19 global vaccine equity failures” published in BMJ.

You can read “Pharmacy engagement in TB prevention and care: not if, but how?” published in BMJ Global Health, from co-authors Petra Heitkamp, Namrata Rana, Joel Klinton, Giorgia Sulis, Charity Omenka, Madhukar Pai and colleagues.

Read the latest paper from Jacob Bigio, Rishav Das, Madhukar Pai and colleagues “The inclusion of diagnostics in national health insurance schemes in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines and Viet Nam” published in BMJ Global Health.

Madhukar Pai served on the expert group that worked on a WHO AMR research agenda, which included priority research questions on DR-TB. You can read the “Global research agenda for antimicrobial resistance in human health” policy brief on WHO’s website.

A warm welcome to Surbhi Sheokand, who is joining the Pai Global TB Group! She will be contributing to the TB PPM Learning Network, COVET project, and FIND projects (Access and TB Diagnostics and Policies).

Read PLoS Blogs’ guest contributors Madhukar Pai and Katri Bertram’s blog post “Single-Issue Advocacy in Global Health: Possibilities and Perils“.

Madhukar Pai helped put together a Lancet ID series entirely focused on LMICs, “Lessons from COVID-19 to manage infectious diseases in low-income and middle-income countries“. Read his commentary “Leveraging the positives from the pandemic to strengthen infectious disease care in low-income and middle-income countries“, a synthesis of the series.