UCL-TB is delighted to be hosting leading tuberculosis physician, academic and advocate Prof Madhukar Pai of Montreal's McGill University and Jacqueline S. Huh, Stop TB Partnership's Head of Strategic Initiatives & Innovative Financing, for a special seminar on Tuesday, 9th April 2019.

Prof Pai's talk, "Reimagining TB Care", will begin at 5pm in the Leolin Price Lecture Theatre and will be followed by Ms Huh's talk, “Crossing the Valleys of Death: From Research to Roll-out”. Afterwards, refreshments will be served in the Winter Garden.

About Madhukar Pai

Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health at McGill University, Montreal. He is the Director of McGill Global Health Programs, and Director of the McGill International TB Centre.

Madhu Pai did his medical training and community medicine residency in Vellore, India. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at UC Berkeley, and a postdoctoral fellowship at the UCSF.

Madhu serves on the SAGE-IVD committee of WHO, Geneva; Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva; and Access Advisory Committee of TB Alliance, New York. He serves as the Chair of the Public-Private Mix (PPM) Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. He is on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, and BMJ Global Health, among others.

Madhu’s research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India and South Africa. His research is supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 300 publications. He is recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, Haile T. Debas Prize, and David Johnston Faculty & Staff Award. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

About Jacqueline Huh

Ms. Jacqueline S. Huh is Head of the Strategic Initiatives & Innovative Financing Team at the Stop TB Partnership, which is hosted by the United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS).

After working in the private sector for over 10 years, and fast approaching a mid-life crisis in her early 30s, Jackie decided to change everything in her life except for her family and friends, and dedicate herself to something more challenging and meaningful. And, due to a chronic health condition she is affected by, she has been and will be on medication throughout her lifetime. “I recognized at some point in my life that I had access to proper and affordable healthcare due to circumstances that were based on pure luck – I was born into a family that could immigrate to a country and pay for quality diagnosis, treatment, and care. When you visit some of the developing countries and emerging markets and visit the local clinics, the sheer lack of equity that still exists in the world takes your breath away.”

Jackie is committed to bringing a more business-oriented mindset and taking bold and smart risks to address some of the barriers we face in the tuberculosis, which is now the leading infectious disease killer, surpassing both HIV and malaria combined, and global health space. As such, her team, together with various key partners and stakeholders, are leading the development and implementation of two new initiatives at the Stop TB Partnership called “Re-Imagining Care,” which will look at modernizing how care is provided now and in the future in high TB burden countries and “Accelerator for Impact (a4i),” which is a is a public-sector driven venture capital fund/mechanism, which aims to catalyze the rapid roll-out of new, people-centered innovations in high TB burden countries.

UCL-TB guest seminar with Prof Madhukar Pai: "Reimagining TB Care"