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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD

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To support management of #COVID19 at home in , Team @IndiaCOVIDSOS has developed these practical tip sheets in many languages. Please share!Here is the English version (Version 5)Download all at:

Thread on the 2020 Global Tuberculosis Report released by WHO today.10M people developed TB in 2019 and 1.4M died. Hardly any change from the previous year.https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/global-tuberculosis-report-2

In my global health course today, we will cover pandemics.My summary of the major lessons from #COVID19 (so far):1. Something like #COVID19 was expected, but countries were not prepared (despite

Thread on racism in #tuberculosis & global health.I have been writing about power imbalance in global health.Every aspect of global health is dominated by individuals, institutions and funders in HICs.

A thread on burn-out in global health.Having been engaged in global health for nearly 2 decades, I suspect high rates of burn out was a big issue before this pandemic.Rarely

I now have a name for what I have been worried about!"Epistemic trespassing" (not epidemic!)When commentators holding real expertise in one field intrude into another, passing judgment where they lack

As lockdown starts easing up across India, what is the plan to deal with the massive surge of people who have been deferring care for all sorts of conditions? Undiagnosed

Please add to these rapidly evolving “laws” of 'Covidisation' of research:1. Every Covid-19 study will attract another study with equally opposing conclusions.2. The longer the duration of lockdown, the greater

Thread on 'Covidisation' of research & scholarship.I am sure there are folks out there, especially students, who are wondering if their work has any relevance or value in this new

Thread on BCG vaccination and #COVIDー19.There has been a flood of ecological studies & media reports claiming that BCG vaccination protects against COVID-19. See:https://www.medrxiv.org/search/BCG%252Bcovid%252B Some of the studies are thoughtful

The importance of diversity & inclusion in writing:Plenty of data that global health is neither global nor diverse (https://www.forbes.com/sites/madhukarpai/2020/03/08/global-health-needs-to-be-global--diverse/#61e8cf897659)Having woken up to thi

I am increasingly frustrated by the short time frames imposed on global health projects by funders.Donors & agencies want to see "impact" in 2-3 years, while everyone knows that ground