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 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

Selected publications

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. S2CID 227064067.
  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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