Read the TBPPM team’s latest paper “Building a virtual community of practice – The evolution of the TBPPM learning network, India chapter” published in the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.
Welcome to new team member Ashlyn Beecroft
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!
