Today, I'll be presenting our work on estimating the global burden of viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection at the Advanced TB Diagnostics course, part of the @mcgill.ca Summer Institutes in Global Health. I attended this course in 2019 and am very honoured to be among the speakers now!
“A nonscientific, political process for determining what is scientifically sound has not worked in the past and will not work now. Lysenkoism demonstrated that allowing politics to control the scientific process can halt or even reverse a nation’s progress”
Cepheid is actively working to leverage GeneXpert® systems that are widely deployed across Africa to support detection of the Bundibugyo strain using the Xpert Hemorrhagic Fever test
www.cepheid.com/en-US/insigh...
"Globally, only 7% of refugee youth access higher education, compared with 40% of non-refugee youth"
@plosglobalpublichealth.org @yasiressar.bsky.social @gabefabreau.bsky.social
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Counterpoint: science is always politicized. It just lost its dominant winning coalition amidst the collapse of the reigning political order.
We urgently need strategy to regain it.
“There is more spending in defence and less spending in global health or in public health or health security, which makes us vulnerable...Why can't we come to our senses?” @drtedros.who.int
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Can we fight tumors by pitting cancer cells against one another? This past weekend, I spoke with Bob McDonald on CBC's Quirks & Quarks about how doctors are already doing this.
You can listen here, and check out my book Beyond Inheritance if you'd like to learn more.
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Jack Iwashyna
Alvaro Schwalb
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
The 2026 Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda highlights critical diagnostic gaps, particularly for the Bundibugyo strain, delaying detection and response. Explore why decentralized, strain-inclusive test...
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly
striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees,
that funding could be...
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly
striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees,
that funding could be...
Open letter to leaders of G7, G20, BRICS and all nations on finalizing the WHO Pandemic Agreement’s Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing annex
www.who.int/news/item/15...
The genetic instructions you get from your parents are not the same instructions you have when you die. Our cells are mutating all the time, from the early embryo until our final breath. Some of these...
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly
striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees,
that funding could be...
The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly
striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees,
that funding could be...
Dear Leaders of the G7, the G20, BRICS and of all nations, We write to you together, from Geneva and from Brasília, with one shared conviction: that the world must finish what it started, and that you...
