Madhu Pai
Director of . Canada Research Chair . Passionate about tuberculosis control & global health. Tweets are my own views.
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Rsci.app.link 9h 1 tweets
Madhu Pai This is progress! has a call for submissions: Decolonizing Global Health 9h
Canada must boost foreign aid for feminist agenda to have sustained impact, experts say
The Globe and Mail 21h 3 tweets
The Liberal government’s annual budget increases have not resulted in a significant boost in development spending toward the UN target
NIH announces $1 million prize competition to target global disease diagnostics
National Institutes of Health (NIH) 14h 2 tweets
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to offer supplementary support for designs that can be developed into products on a rapid timeframe.
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Madhu Pai Nice! announces $1 million prize competition to target global disease diagnostics 12h
Call for experts on behavioural insights and sciences for public health
Who.int 18h 5 tweets
The World Health Organization (WHO) is soliciting proposals for the nomination of experts to serve on a Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to WHO on behavioural insights and sciences for public health. This work will contribute to WHO’s vision of a...
"We must ask uncomfortable questions": Notes from Decolonizing Global Health 2020
Duke Global Health Institute 19h 2 tweets
At the recent student-organized Duke conference, speakers, panels and attendees shared their perspectives on the decolonization of global health, from its history of structural inequities to stigmatizing language used in academia to funding...
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Madhu Pai "We must ask uncomfortable questions": Notes from Decolonizing Global Health Conference 2020 13h
User experience and patient satisfaction with tuberculosis care in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
Sciencedirect.com 10d 2 tweets
Patient-centered care is at the forefront of the End TB strategy, yet little is known about user (patient's) experience and patient satisfaction with …
Madhu Pai In our new paper, we looked at user experience and client satisfaction with TB care, led by , with 21h
Repurposing Drugs to Fight Cancer
Nytimes.com 35h 10 tweets
While doctors are allowed to use drugs approved for one disease to treat another condition, many don’t because approval to do so doesn’t appear on the label. But that may be changing.
Qure.ai | Qure Global Health Prize 2020
Qure.ai 42h 1 tweets
Celebrating Change Makers
The Billionaire Election
Nytimes.com 6d 25 tweets
Does the world belong to them or to us?
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Madhu Pai Wow! is asking hard questions ahead of the US elections: Do you believe only a billionaire is qualified to solve the problems billionaires helped create? Or are you skeptical of the deployment of arsonists as firefighters? 4d
Donald Trump Is Going to India to Find Himself
Nytimes.com 5d 7 tweets
Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India is the American president’s spiritual home: an inferno of systemic cruelty.
Madhu Pai Donald Trump Is Going to India to Find Himself 5d
Diagnostic Gaps in Global Health | Think Global Health
Council on Foreign Relations 5d 5 tweets
Lack of diagnostic capacity in primary care impacts patient outcomes, damages health systems, and lowers health security
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Madhu Pai In my first contribution , & I focus on: Diagnostic Gaps in Global Health | Think Global Health 5d
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Madhu Pai Diagnosis is the weakest link in the cascade of care—large gaps exist for key diseases including TB, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, malaria, hypertension & cancer. Read this piece to learn about the Diagnostic Gap in Global Health 3d
Fake Facts Are Flying About Coronavirus. Now There's A Plan To Debunk Them
NPR.org 6d 4 tweets
Rumors and untruths are spreading online — from conspiracy theories about the origin of the virus to outlandish treatments.
GLOBL HLTH 203B_2/20/2020
Lecture.ucsf.edu 6d 10 tweets
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Madhu Pai Thank you ! Really honored to deliver the global health grands rounds today. Video link: 6d
COVID-19 outbreak: diagnostic update
FIND 7d 4 tweets
Northern Labrador’s housing shortages and tuberculosis are two faces of the same crisis
The Globe and Mail 8d 2 tweets
Several times over the decades, Nain has been a cramped and poor place to live as disease displaced the region’s Inuit. Now, locals and health officials are trying to stop the cycle from beginning again
Let’s Worry About Diagnostic Capacity, Not Just During Outbreaks
Forbes 8d 28 tweets
Diagnostics get attention during outbreaks. But we cannot afford to think about diagnostics only during outbreaks and emergencies. That is myopic, unsustainable, and detrimental to the Universal Health Coverage agenda.
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Madhu Pai Diagnostics are critical for outbreak response. But why is diagnostic capacity discussed only during outbreaks and emergencies? Read my new piece : Let’s Worry About Diagnostic Capacity, Not Just During Outbreaks 8d
CUGH Satellite Session Registration
Google Docs 13d 2 tweets
Power dynamics in global health research leads to inequities in the opportunities for contribution and professional growth for scientists from low- and middle-income countries, ultimately diminishing the quality of science and impact of the work,...
Lateral flow LAM testing for TB in PLHIV - why the slow implementation?
Nature Research Microbiology Community 8d 1 tweets
Despite a 2015 WHO recommendation, lateral flow LAM testing has still not be widely implemented in most high TB/HIV burden countries
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Madhu Pai Lateral flow LAM testing for TB in PLHIV - why the slow implementation? by #behindthepaper 8d
It's not about you: perspectives from initial site visits in Karnataka, India
Perspectives on Global Health 9d 1 tweets
Emily MacLean (MSc, PhD Candidate) One of the objectives of my doctoral thesis project is to determine the diagnostic accuracy of a new lateral flow biomarker-based Tuberculosis (TB) test. We are trying to understand how well it works to detect...
Madhu Pai Self-reflexivity & humility in global health: Proud of my student 's reflexive piece: "Going forward in my studies & career, it is important to keep this frame of mind, i.e. humility as a learner & visitor, when engaging in global health" 9d
Sanofi announces it will work with HHS to develop coronavirus vaccine
STAT 9d 7 tweets
The drug maker Sanofi Pasteur is entering the race to develop a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus sweeping through China, the company said.
Madhu Pai Any reason why China cannot develop a vaccine against #COVID19? Sanofi announces it will work with HHS to develop coronavirus vaccine via 9d