We’re happy to welcome Ashlyn to our team! Ashlyn is working on the BMGF-funded project “Systematic reviews on sputum expectoration proportion“. Find out more about Ashlyn on our team’s webpage.
NIRT 2024 Advanced TB Diagnostics course
From January 29 to February 2, ICMR-NIRT hosted the 2024 “Advanced TB Diagnostics course – A capacity building workshop for countries in the South-East Asian Region” in Chennai, India. The workshop was led by Dr. Padmapriyadarsini, Director of NIRT, and Dr. Madhukar Pai, as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s initiative.
New CIHR grant on tongue swabs
Congratulations to Poshan Thapa, Madhukar Pai, and the team (including many Pai TB Group alumni), on being awarded a CIHR Project Grant for the Fall 2023 competition! The “Empowering informal healthcare providers to detect tuberculosis using tongue swabs: a field-based, open-label, cluster randomized trial in India” project will kick-off April 1st 2024.
Three new papers from the COVET team
You can read the latest papers from the COVET team:
- Lavanya Huria and team: “Care pathways of individuals with tuberculosis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bandung, Indonesia” published in PLoS Global Public Health
- Angelina Sassi and team: “Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of tuberculosis care in private facilities in Bandung, Indonesia: a repeated cross-sectional standardized patients study” published in BMC Public Health
- Charity Omenka and team: “Individual journeys to tuberculosis care in Nigeria’s private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic” published in BMJ Global Health
Congratulations for a fantastic start of the year!
New guideline paper from Emily MacLean
You can read Emily MacLean and colleagues’ new guideline paper “Tuberculosis treatment monitoring tests during routine practice: study design guidance” published in Clinical Microbiology and Infection.
Congratulations to Poshan Thapa!
Congratulations to Poshan, who was awarded an RI-MUHC postdoctoral fellowship for 2024!
A look back at 2 years of PLoS Global Public Health
You can read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ reflection “Editors as allies: Our two-year experience at PLOS Global Public Health” published in PLoS Global Public Health.
New paper from QuTUB team
The QuTUB team recently published “The family doctor: health, kin testing and primary care in Patna, India“, which you can read in Anthropology & Medicine.
Union conference 2023
The 2023 Union conference was held in Paris, France, this year. It was also a great opportunity for current and past members of the team to connect in person!
Profile on Anurag and Madhavi Bhargava – The Lancet
Congratulations to Anurag and Madhavi Bhargava on their feature profile in The Lancet! Very inspiring!