Madhukar Pai

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Madhukar Pai MD Ph.D
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Born
Vellore, India
Alma materStanley Medical College

MGR Medical University Christian Medical College University of California, Berkeley

University of California, San Francisco
Known forTuberculosis and public health research, equity advocacy
AwardsChanchlani Global Health Research Award

Union Scientific Prize

Haile T. Debas Prize

David Johnston Faculty & Staff Award

Madhukar Pai (also known as Madhu Pai) is a 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 Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University.[4]

Education[]

Pai completed medical training and his community medicine residency at the Christian Medical College[6] 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[]

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.[7]

Advocacy[]

Pai is a frequent media commentator on the COVID-19 pandemic in India,[8][2][9] and in 2021 drew comparisons of the collective global action taken in response to the COVID19 pandemic versus the relative inaction towards tuberculosis.[10] His 2021 paper in PLOS Medicine addressed power asymmetries in global health.[11]

In 2020[12] and in 2021[13] 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.[14] In 2022 he described the global response to COVID-19 as an "unmitigated disaster".[15]

Awards[]

References[]

  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 m "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. ^ Pai, Madhu (March 2021). "Madhu Pai CV" (PDF).
  7. ^ "PLOS Global Public Health: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal". journals.plos.org. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  8. ^ The National (2021). "Canadian doctor weighs in on COVID-19 crisis in India". CBC.
  9. ^ "Analysis | As India sets a record for covid-19 deaths, variant worries grow globally". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-11-13.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ Pai, Madhukar. "Decolonizing Global Health: A Moment To Reflect On A Movement". Forbes. Retrieved 2021-11-15.
  14. ^ Valentine, Ashish (2021-12-09). "Fix the global vaccine rollout or face even worse COVID variants, experts warn". NPR. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  15. ^ "Infectious disease expert calls global COVID-19 response an 'unmitigated disaster'". Coronavirus. 2022-01-25. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  16. ^ "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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