EGHI Lecture Series

Since our founding in 2006, EGHI has hosted nearly 3,550 lectures, webinars, and forums on global health topics.

For our first lecture in 2024, we are delighted to welcome Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PHD, FCAH, FRSC to Emory University. As part of EGHl's Global Health Lecture Series and Emory/GA Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center visiting professorship, we invite you to join us for Dr. Pai’s lecture, Shifting Power in Global Health Via Allyship. The lecture includes discussion and Q&A, immediately followed by a reception from 5:30 – 7PM EST.

Lecture: Shifting Power in Global Health Via Allyship
Date/Time: April 11, 2024 from 4:00 – 5:30PM EST
Location: RRR Ballroom P01

Virtual Option: Register to join via Zoom webinar

About our Speaker: Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PHD, FCAH, FRSC

Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC

Dr. Madhu Pai is the Inaugural Char, Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health. He is the Associate Director of the McGill International TB Centre. He is Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

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 WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for TB in the South-East Asia Region, and the WHO Advisory group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics and Laboratory. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva. He serves as the Chair of the Public-Private Mix (PPM) Working Group of the Stop TB Partnership. He serves on the editorial boards of Lancet Infectious Diseases, PLoS Medicine, and BMJ Global Health, among others. He is Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.

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 400 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 an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.

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With thanks to Emory Global Diabetes Research Center and The Center for the Study of Human Health for their support.

Event Contact: Mischka Garel, mgarel@emory.edu