Madhukar Pai

Madhukar Pai
Born
Vellore, India
Alma mater
Known forTuberculosis and public health research, equity advocacy
Awards

Madhukar Pai (also known as Madhu Pai) is an Indian medical doctor, academic, advocate,[1] writer,[2] and university professor. Pai's work is around global health, specifically advocacy for better treatment for tuberculosis[3] with a focus on South Africa and India.[4][5] Pai is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health in the School of Population and Global Health[6] and holds a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University.[7]

Education

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Pai completed medical training and his community medicine residency at the Christian Medical College[8] Vellore, India.[4] He received his Ph.D in epidemiology from University of California, Berkeley.[4] He also did a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California San Francisco.[4]

Committees and editorial boards

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Pai serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND (the global alliance for diagnostics)[4] and is on the World Health Organization's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics and the Access Advisory Committee of TB Alliance.[4] He is the Chair of the Public-Private Mix Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership.[4] Pai is also on the editorial boards of BMJ Global Health, PLoS Medicine, Lancet Infectious Diseases,[4] and is an Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.[9]

Advocacy

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Pai is a frequent media commentator on the COVID-19 pandemic in India,[10][2][11] and in 2021 drew comparisons of the collective global action taken in response to the COVID19 pandemic versus the relative inaction towards tuberculosis.[12] His 2021 paper in PLOS Medicine addressed power asymmetries in global health.[13]

In 2020[14] and in 2021[15] he published papers and contributions about the decolonisation of global health work.

In 2021, Pai was critical of the global failure to widely vaccinate people against COVID-19, accused high-income nations of vaccine hoarding, and called for a waiver of intellectual property laws regarding COVID19 vaccines.[16] In 2022 he described the global response to COVID-19 as an "unmitigated disaster".[17]

Awards

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Selected publications

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  • Madhukar Pai; Alice Zwerling; Dick Menzies (5 August 2008). "Systematic review: T-cell-based assays for the diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection: an update". Annals of Internal Medicine. 149 (3): 177–184. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-149-3-200808050-00241. ISSN 0003-4819. PMC 2951987. PMID 18593687. Wikidata Q22241138.
  • Jennifer Furin; Helen Cox; Madhukar Pai (20 March 2019). "Tuberculosis". The Lancet. 393 (10181): 1642–1656. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(19)30308-3. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 30904262. Wikidata Q92572130.
  • Khan, Themrise; Abimbola, Seye; Kyobutungi, Catherine; Pai, Madhukar (2022-06-01). "How we classify countries and people—and why it matters". BMJ Global Health. 7 (6): e009704. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2022-009704. ISSN 2059-7908. PMC 9185389. PMID 35672117.

References

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  1. ^ Dustin, Graham (2018-09-24). "Backstory Podcast: Dr. Madhukar Pai discusses the UN High Level Meeting to End TB". On Medicine. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  2. ^ a b "Opinion | India's covid-19 crisis is a dire warning for all countries". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  3. ^ "Pai M[Author] - Search Results - PubMed". PubMed. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Madhukar Pai". McGill University.
  5. ^ "Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD - Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre - RI-MUHC". Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  6. ^ "Alumnus Madhukar Pai named chair of Department of Global and Public Health at McGill University". Berkeley Public Health. 2023-09-28. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  7. ^ "The Chair". Department of Global and Public Health. Retrieved 2024-02-28.
  8. ^ Pai, Madhu (March 2021). "Madhu Pai CV" (PDF).
  9. ^ "PLOS Global Public Health: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  10. ^ The National (2021). "Canadian doctor weighs in on COVID-19 crisis in India". CBC.
  11. ^ "Analysis | As India sets a record for covid-19 deaths, variant worries grow globally". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  12. ^ Furin, Jennifer; Pai, Madhukar (2021-03-22). "We went all-out to tackle Covid-19 – TB needs the same approach". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  13. ^ Abimbola, Seye; Asthana, Sumegha; Montenegro, Cristian; Guinto, Renzo R.; Jumbam, Desmond Tanko; Louskieter, Lance; Kabubei, Kenneth Munge; Munshi, Shehnaz; Muraya, Kui; Okumu, Fredros; Saha, Senjuti (2021-04-22). "Addressing power asymmetries in global health: Imperatives in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic". PLOS Medicine. 18 (4): e1003604. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003604. ISSN 1549-1676. PMC 8101997. PMID 33886540.
  14. ^ Abimbola, Seye; Pai, Madhukar (2020-11-21). "Will global health survive its decolonisation?". The Lancet. 396 (10263): 1627–1628. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32417-X. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 33220735. S2CID 227064067.
  15. ^ Pai, Madhukar. "Decolonizing Global Health: A Moment To Reflect On A Movement". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  16. ^ Valentine, Ashish (2021-12-09). "Fix the global vaccine rollout or face even worse COVID variants, experts warn". NPR. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  17. ^ "Infectious disease expert calls global COVID-19 response an 'unmitigated disaster'". Coronavirus. 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  18. ^ "Dr. Madhukar Pai and Dr. Nitika Pai co-laureates of the 2012 Chanchla…". archive.md. 2013-06-30. Archived from the original on 2013-06-30. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
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