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Join us for a special lecture with McGill's Prof Madhu Pai on 9th April

5 March 2019

UCL-TB is delighted to be hosting leading tuberculosis physician, academic and advocate Prof Madhukar Pai of Montreal's McGill University for a special seminar on Tuesday, 9th April 2019.

Prof Pai's talk, "Reimagining TB Care", will begin at 5pm in the Leolin Price Lecture Theatre at the Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH and will be followed by refreshments in the Winter Garden.

Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. He is the Director of McGill Global Health Programs, and Director of the McGill International TB Centre.  Places are very limited so early booking is advised via Eventbrite.

Madhu Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF.

Madhu serves on the SAGE-IVD committee of WHO, Geneva; Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva; and Access Advisory Committee of TB Alliance, New York. He serves as the Chair of the Public-Private Mix (PPM) Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. He is on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, and BMJ Global Health, among others.

Madhu’s research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. His research is supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 300 publications. He is recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, Haile T. Debas Prize, and David Johnston Faculty & Staff Award. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

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Madhu Pai portrait