Archived News

Advanced TB Diagnostics course in South Africa

A 5-day intensive workshop on advanced TB diagnostics was held in Johannesburg, South Africa, from December 9 to 13. Wits University, along with NHLS and the South African National TB Program (NDOH), hosted the course, with help from the McGill International TB Centre and McGill Global Health Programs. The event was a huge success, thanks to its 138 participants, and its stellar faculty presenters.

Union conference

This year, the Union conference was held in Bali, Indonesia, November 12-16. Our TBPPM team had a booth on-site that welcomed many visitors, and allowed for multiple side-meetings and information-sharing between members in the Community Connect area. It was also a fantastic opportunity to catch up with friends and alumni from the Pai Global TB Group.

Welcome to Shashika Bandara

We’d like to welcome Dr. Shashika Bandara, who is joining our team as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Shashika’s PhD was focused on global health governance, and he will work on our project commissioned by the O’Neill-Lancet Commission on Racism, Structural Discrimination and Global Health. Find out more about Shashika on our team’s page.

Good luck to Joel Klinton

The entire team wishes all the best to Joel, who is taking a new position at the Ottawa Public Health department! We’re all grateful for his instrumental contributions to the TBPPM Learning Network.

Welcome to new team members, and alumni news

A warm welcome to Jeyashree Kathiresan, a physician from India who is starting an MSc in epidemiology! We are also welcoming Jacquelyn Yushkov, who is joining the team working on a series of systematic reviews on sputum expectoration, Samantha Ayoub, joining the TBPPM project, and Esme Longley, who will be working on TB global health projects. Welcome!

Many alumni are also starting new degrees:

  • Maddee Nash: medical school at Queen’s University
  • Jacob Bigio: PhD in epidemiology at McGill University
  • Rishav Das: PhD in health policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Angie Sassi: PhD in global health implementation science at UW
  • Tripti Pande: DrPH at UNC Chapel Hill

Congratulations!

Welcome to Zarin Abdullah

A warm welcome to Zarin Abdullah, who is joining Surbhi on the exemplars and innovations in global health diagnostics project, and Ashlyn on the series of systematic reviews on sputum expectoration proportion project!

Congratulations to Anita Svadzian!

Congratulations to Anita for winning the Jonathan Meakins Prize for best paper in clinical and outcomes research, as part of the McGill International TB Centre Research Day! Read her winning paper here.

Congratulations to alumni

Congratulations to Claudia Denkinger on winning the Heisenberg Professorship at Heidelberg University! Read the details in the university’s announcement.

Congratulations to Anurag & Madhavi Bhargava on becoming the inaugural winners of the Dr KV Desikan memorial award, which honors individuals and/or organizations who have made significant contributions in the field of infectious diseases, in community health/ development/rehabilitation and/or the laboratory sciences. Find out more here.

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:

Congratulations for a fantastic start of the year!

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!

Global Health Night 2023

Our team members presented their work during Global Health Night’s poster fair. Below are a few examples:

COVET project meeting

On October 6th, the COVET team welcomed Guy Stallworthy, Global Lead for TB Private Provider Engagement at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. They were also joined by colleagues from the TBPPM team, for a fruitful day of discussions and reflections.