Madhukar Pai Explained

Madhukar Pai
Birth Place:Vellore, India
Known For:Tuberculosis and public health research, equity advocacy

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

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

Committees and editorial boards

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

Advocacy

Pai is a frequent media commentator on the COVID-19 pandemic in India,[10] [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

Selected publications

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dustin. Graham. 2018-09-24. Backstory Podcast: Dr. Madhukar Pai discusses the UN High Level Meeting to End TB. 2021-11-13. On Medicine. en-GB.
  2. News: Opinion India's covid-19 crisis is a dire warning for all countries. en-US. Washington Post. 2021-11-13. 0190-8286.
  3. Web site: Pai M[Author] - Search Results - PubMed]. 2021-11-13. PubMed. en.
  4. Web site: Madhukar Pai . McGill University.
  5. Web site: Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD - Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre - RI-MUHC. 2021-11-13. Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. en-US.
  6. Web site: 2023-09-28 . Alumnus Madhukar Pai named chair of Department of Global and Public Health at McGill University . 2024-02-28 . Berkeley Public Health . en-US.
  7. Web site: The Chair . 2024-02-28 . Department of Global and Public Health . en.
  8. Web site: Pai. Madhu. March 2021. Madhu Pai CV.
  9. Web site: PLOS Global Public Health: A Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Journal. 2021-11-15. journals.plos.org.
  10. News: The National. 2021. Canadian doctor weighs in on COVID-19 crisis in India. CBC.
  11. News: Analysis As India sets a record for covid-19 deaths, variant worries grow globally. en-US. Washington Post. 2021-11-13. 0190-8286.
  12. News: Furin. Jennifer. Pai. Madhukar. 2021-03-22. We went all-out to tackle Covid-19 – TB needs the same approach. en-GB. The Telegraph. 2021-11-13. 0307-1235.
  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. en. 18. 4. e1003604. 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003604. 1549-1676. 8101997. 33886540 . free .
  14. Abimbola. Seye. Pai. Madhukar. 2020-11-21. Will global health survive its decolonisation?. The Lancet. English. 396. 10263. 1627–1628. 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32417-X. 0140-6736. 33220735. 227064067 .
  15. Web site: Pai. Madhukar. Decolonizing Global Health: A Moment To Reflect On A Movement. 2021-11-15. Forbes. en.
  16. News: Valentine. Ashish. 2021-12-09. Fix the global vaccine rollout or face even worse COVID variants, experts warn. en. NPR. 2021-12-14.
  17. Web site: 2022-01-25 . Infectious disease expert calls global COVID-19 response an 'unmitigated disaster' . 2022-03-03 . Coronavirus . en.
  18. Web site: 2013-06-30. Dr. Madhukar Pai and Dr. Nitika Pai co-laureates of the 2012 Chanchla…. https://archive.today/20130630005248/http://www.nitikapantpai.com/dr-madhukar-pai-and-dr-nitika-pai-co-laureates-of-the-2012-chanchlani-global-health-research-award/. dead. 2013-06-30. 2021-11-13. archive.md.

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