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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:
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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