This report presents a cost-benefit analysis of increased spending on TB using impacts and costs drawn from the Global Plan to End Tuberculosis, 2023‒2030. It was authored by Madhukar Pai and colleagues.
Scaling innovations in TB diagnostics – new paper
Read Madhukar Pai and Soumya Swaminathan’s paper “India is well placed to scale innovations in tuberculosis diagnostics” in The Indian Journal of Medical Research.
TB services in Nigeria during the pandemic – new paper
Find out more about “Tuberculosis service disruptions and adaptations during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the private health sector of two urban settings in Nigeria—A mixed methods study” in Charity Oga-Omenka, Angelina Sassi, Nathaly Aguilera Vasquez, Lavanya Huria, Madhukar Pai and colleauges’ latest paper published in PLoS Global Public Health.
Progress to end TB – commentary
Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ latest commentary in The Lancet “Fast-tracking progress to End TB: high-level opportunities for investment and action“.
Congratulations to Mikashmi Kohli!
Bravo to Mikashmi, whose MSc thesis received glowing reviews! She is now officially a MSc epidemiology graduate!
Access to diagnostic testing – new paper
Find out more about “Breaking the cycle of neglect: building on momentum from COVID-19 to drive access to diagnostic testing” in Emma Hannay and Madhukar Pai’s new paper published in eClinicalMedicine.
Congratulations to Charity Omenka!
Congrats to Charity, who has been selected into the 2023 leadership cohort of WomenLift Health!
Anti-blackness in global health – new paper
Read Madhukar Pai and colleagues’ new paper “From vaccine to visa apartheid, how anti-Blackness persists in global health” published in PLoS Global Public Health.
Team news
Congratulations to Lavanya Huria who will be starting a new job in a Vancouver-based agency shortly, and to Alexandra Zimmer who successfully defended her PhD protocol!
Jacob Bigio will be continuing with our group as a PhD candidate in the epidemiology program as of September 1st, Luz Villa, an MD working as a consultant for FIND based in Lima Peru, will join our team for an MSc in epidemiology for the fall term, and Poshan Thapa, who just finished his PhD at the University of New South Wales Australia, will join us as a postdoctoral fellow later this summer.
Op-ed from Petra Heitkamp
Read Petra Heitkamp and Mohammed Yassin’s op-ed “Opinion: Engaging the private sector is vital to ending TB” published in DevEx.