Samuel Schumacher (PhD graduate) and Andy McDowell (postdoctoral fellow), both alumni from the group, won prizes for best papers at this year’s McGill TB Centre Trainee Day. Samuel was awarded the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in Clinical Research by a graduate student for “Diagnostic Test Accuracy in Childhood Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Bayesian Latent Class Analysis“. Andy was awarded the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in Clinical Research by a postdoctoral fellow for “Treatment as diagnosis and diagnosis as treatment: empirical management of presumptive tuberculosis in India“. This is in addition to Sophie and Emily, who both won travel awards.
