Madhu Pai
Director of @McGillGHP. Canada Research Chair @McGillU. Passionate about tuberculosis control & global health. Tweets are my own views.
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đșđž Are US visa rules stifling research and innovation? | The Stream
For many researchers and academics around the world, studying and working in countries such as the United States or United Kingdom is a major step along the ...
Madhu Pai
Reciprocity is critical for global health. Otherwise it will be mostly HIC folks visiting LMICs. I spoke to @AJStream @AJEnglish on their show on how visa hassles are a barrier for research and innovation
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Risk of Latent Tuberculosis Reactivation After Hematopoietic cell Transplantation
Abstract. There were no cases of tuberculosis in a cohort of 2531 patients who underwent hematopoietic cell transplantation from 2010 to 2015 after 7323 person
Panic in the world's largest refugee settlement: 'I will kill ... my entire family if I am forced to leave'
Myanmar has approved the return of 3,450 Rohingya families, but none believes conditions are safe two years after the mass slaughter of Muslim civilians.
Madhu Pai
Panic in the world's largest refugee settlement: 'I will kill ... my entire family if I am forced to leave'
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10th Annual George W. Comstock Lecture: Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD
"Time for a quality revolution in tuberculosis care" Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD Wednesday, April 5, 2017 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
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@JohnsHopkinsSPH @UCBerkeley @Fogarty_NIH @guardian @LancetGH Oh, forgot: about 30 years after my first visit to @JohnsHopkinsSPH, I was invited by JHU to deliver the 10th Annual Comstock lecture on TB. A huge honor. I began my lecture by talking about my visa challenges in 1998, when I first went to Hopkins!
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Passports and privilege: access denied
Last October, Liverpool, UK, hosted the Fifth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research.
At least 10 overseas delegates planning to attend the biennial gathering of researchers,
practitioners, and policy makers dedicated to strengthening health...
Visa headaches and inequalities in attending global health conferences
Faraz Khalid, Sara Ardila-GĂłmez, and Kerry Scott Enthusiastic preparations are underway for the Fourth Global Symposium on Health Systems Research, which is to be held in Vancouver on 14-18 November [...]More...
Global health still mimics colonial ways: here's how to break the pattern
High-income country experts and institutions are valued more than expertise in low- and middle-income countries.
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Global health still mimics colonial ways: here's how to break the pattern theconversation.com/global-health-⊠via @TC_Africa @ConversationCA pic.twitter.com/CzSKGqF5KP
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Reaching critical mass on mass shootings
In just over a week, a spate of mass shootings devastated the USA: in Gilroy, CA,
on July 28, 2019, three people were killed and 12 injured at a festival; in El Paso,
TX, on Aug 3, 22 were killed and 24 injured at a shopping centre; and in...
Op-Ed: Should you be worried about Ebola? It depends on where you live
People who contract Ebola are three to four times less likely to die from it if they are treated in a high-income country such as the United States rather than in places like Congo or western Africa.
Ebola Could Be Eradicated â But Only if the World Works Together
New treatments for Ebola and drug-resistant tuberculosis offer hope, but they wonât be successful on their own.
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"New drugs for Ebola and TB are the product of years of investment and careful work. That investment could continue to pay off, but only if the US and its partners around the world increase their global health efforts, instead of shrinking away from them."
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How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in Medicine Today
Biological fallacies were used to justify slavery. Why canât doctors let them go?
The Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform: Catching Up to Plan S and Going Further
Guest Authors: Dylan Roskams-Edris (Open Science Consultant and Invited Scholar with the Center for Genomics and Policy,), JB Poline (Associate Professor, Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University), and Nikola Stikov (Associate Professor,...
159 free tests on Indiaâs first diagnostics list
The diagnostics list mentions105 general laboratory tests for a broad range of common conditions, 30 disease-specific tests such as for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and 24 imaging tests including X-rays, CT and MRI scans and ultrasound sonography.
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Madhu Pai
159 free tests on Indiaâs first National Essential Diagnostics List via @RamblingBrook @htTweets
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Better Therapies For TB Are Here, But They Will Not Deliver Themselves
Innovative research and partnerships are delivering us, for the first time, substantially shorter and safer drug treatments for tuberculosis. The challenge now is ensure these new drugs reach those who need them the most.
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Madhu Pai
My take on the #FDA FDA approval of BPaL regimen for #tuberculosis @forbeshealth: Better Therapies For TB Are Here, But They Will Not Deliver Themselves
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Madhu Pai
It is critical for all people and agencies working in TB to be more unified, cohesive, and cooperative. When disagreements arise, it just might help to focus on the real enemy here - Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Madhu Pai
We now have shorter regimens for latent TB & XDR-TB. The real work begins now - to deliver them to those who need them the most. My thoughts @Forbes forbes.com/sites/madhukar⊠pic.twitter.com/yfzQEupo5i
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FDA approves new drug for treatment-resistant forms of tuberculosis that affects the lungs
FDA approved Pretomanid Tablets in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid to treat a specific type of highly treatment-resistant tuberculosis of the lungs.
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Madhu Pai
Big news! @US_FDA approves Pretomanid in combination with bedaquiline and linezolid for XDR-TB & nonresponsive MDR-TB! fda.gov/news-events/pr⊠pic.twitter.com/sbICxyW12b
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UK visas discriminate against Africans
No continent has suffered more from Britainâs âhostile environmentâ immigration policy
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UK visas (and, to be clear, US, Canada, etc, etc!) discriminate against Africans via @Fromagehomme
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America Wasnât a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One
Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.
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Amazing history lesson @NYTmag @nhannahjones "The US is a nation founded on both an ideal & a lie. Declaration proclaims that âall men are created equal.â But the white men who drafted those words did not believe them to be true for black people..."
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