Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past McGill Global Health Programs Director spoke to the Journal de Montreal.
"Les chercheurs de l鈥橴niversit茅 McGill d茅noncent dans une 茅dition r茅cente de la revue scientifique New England Journal of Medicine les 芦 effets d茅vastateurs 禄 que la pand茅mie a eus sur la tuberculose en drainant les services qui lui 茅taient r茅serv茅s vers les personnes atteintes du coronavirus."
Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and past McGill Global Health Programs Director, authored a Forbes opinion piece.
"The 2021 Global Tuberculosis Report, released today by the World Health Organization, had several grim findings. First, the Covid-19 pandemic has reversed years of progress in providing essential TB services and reducing TB disease burden. Second, for the first time in many years, TB deaths have increased. Third, global TB targets are mostly off-track."
Lena Faust, a PhD student in the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, co-authored a recent Globe and Mail opinion piece.
For World TB Day, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director wrote about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the path to end tuberculosis in Forbes.
For World TB Day, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director, co-wrote an op-ed in Devex.
"Like COVID-19, tuberculosis is an airborne respiratory infection. Before the start of the pandemic, TB was the leading infectious disease killer in the world. In 2019, about 10 million people fell sick with the disease and an estimated 1.4 million died of it."
PhD Candidate Lena Faust and PhD student Alexandra Zimmer, both from the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, wrote an opinion piece聽 for World TB Day.
"As we continue to face a global pandemic, it is timely to reflect on Canada鈥檚 leadership in global health. In particular, the unprecedented response to COVID-19 in terms of financial commitments by countries offers an important opportunity for comparison with another infectious disease: tuberculosis (TB)."
Ahead of World TB Day, Dr. Madhukar Pai, Professor at the Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health and former McGill Global Health Programs Director, co-wrote an op-ed in the Telegraph.
On September 26, Heads of State will gather in New York at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly鈥檚 first-ever high-level meeting on tuberculosis (TB) to accelerate efforts to end TB and reach all affected people with prevention and care.
Several new medicines have been found to be more effective than traditional ones used to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), according to a new international collaborative study led by Dr. Dick Menzies, senior scientist at the Research Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) in Montreal. These findings precipitated a complete overhaul of worldwide TB treatment guidelines, with the results of this work published today in the British medical journal The Lancet.
Treatment of latent tuberculosis is set to transform after a pair of studies from the Research-Institute of the 香蕉视频 Health Centre (RI-MUHC) revealed that a shorter treatment was safer and more effective in children and adults compared to the current standard. These findings are published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
World TB Day 2018 is turning out to be special鈥攏ever in the history of tuberculosis (TB) control has there been greater political attention and commitment to tackling the infectious disease that causes nearly two million deaths a year. I was recently fortunate to be in New Delhi, where I witnessed Indian prime minister Narendra Modi launch the TB Free India campaign at the Delhi End TB Summit.
McGill Global Health Programs Director Madhu Pai is editor of a unique collection of papers printed as a supplement to GP Clinics. This supplement is an effort to engage and educate GPs and private practitioners and to share with them the current best practices on TB diagnosis and treatment. The book is accompanied by an interactive where practioners can their TB knowledge and find additional resources to update their practice.
In the past few weeks, McGill researchers have published several papers on a variety of global health topics.
Here are a few of them:
. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, June 11 2015: School of Physical and Occupational Therapy,and Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation Professor Matthew Hunt has collaborated in the development and validation of an ethical analysis tool for humanitarian health workers.
