Madhukar Pai

Datos Biográficos

ID3581834
NOMBREMadhukar Pai
NOMBRESMadhukar
APELLIDOPai
FIRMAPAI M
AFILIACIONESMcGill University
ORCID0000-0003-3667-4536
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS88
TOTAL DE CITAS7
TOTAL COMO AUTOR51
TOTAL COMO EDITOR37
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2009
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H2

  • Delays in tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in India

    Open AccessMohammad Abdullah Heel Kafi, Poshan Thapa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

    Tuberculosis (TB) care for people with TB in India are often fragmented, undermining timely diagnosis and treatment. Understanding patient journeys is critical to strengthening TB care delivery and advancing elimination goals. We conducted a cross-sectional study of 400 people with TB diagnosed between 2020–2022 in two Indian cities: Mumbai (n = 200) and Patna (n = 200). Using structured interviews, we assessed care-seeking behavior, delays to di…

  • Globalisation, rising authoritarianism, declining solidarity, and retreating multilateralism

    Open AccessWinfred Dotse‐Gborgbortsi, Madhukar Pai et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2026

  • Antibiotic dispensing practices and determinants among informal healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessPoshan Thapa, Meera Tandan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Antimicrobial stewardship efforts in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) largely focus on qualified practitioners, yet informal healthcare providers (IPs) deliver much of the primary care. Although these providers frequently dispense antibiotics, their practices remain poorly documented and are not captured in existing surveillance systems. METHODS: Using the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology, this scoping review synthesised …

  • A methodological review of patient healthcare-seeking journeys from symptom onset to receipt of care

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Angelina Sassi et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: For many diseases, early diagnosis and treatment are more cost-effective, reduce community spread of infectious diseases and result in better patient outcomes. However, healthcare-seeking and diagnoses for several diseases are unnecessarily delayed. For example, in 2022, 3 million and 5.6 million people living with tuberculosis (TB) and HIV, respectively, were undiagnosed. Many patients never access appropriate testing, remain undiagn…

  • Health and tuberculosis systems resilience, the role of the private sector and pandemic preparedness

    Open AccessLaura Jane Brubacher, Vijayashree Yellappa et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented challenge to health systems worldwide and had a severe impact on tuberculosis (TB) case notifications and service delivery. India, Indonesia and Nigeria are high TB-burden countries where the majority of initial care-seeking happens in the private health sector. The objectives of this study were to (1) explore policy-makers’ perspectives on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on private sect…

  • Scanned

    Open AccessJuno Min, Jarred Halton et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

  • Fighting tuberculosis hand in hand

    Open AccessNandini Venkatesan, Lena Faust et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease closely intertwined with stigma, discrimination, and the social determinants of health. Communities of people affected by TB are experts in their care pathways, but the TB field continues to fall short of meaningfully engaging communities in TB research. This is a missed opportunity to improve the quality, relevance, person-centeredness, positive impact, and sustainability of TB research outputs. We ackn…

  • Distribution and transmission of M. tuberculosis in a high-HIV prevalence city in Malawi

    Open AccessMelanie H Chitwood, Elizabeth L Corbett et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Delays in identifying and treating individuals with infectious tuberculosis (TB) contribute to poor health outcomes and allow ongoing community transmission of M. tuberculosis ( Mtb ). Current recommendations for screening for tuberculosis specify community characteristics (e.g., areas with high local tuberculosis prevalence) that can be used to target screening within the general population. However, areas of higher tuberculosis burden are not n…

  • Can we unplug global health education from The Matrix

    Open AccessShashika Bandara, Ananya Tina Banerjee et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

  • “You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development

    Open AccessSafieh Shah, Shruti Bora et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

  • Improving the efficiency of the regulatory approvals of HIV in vitro diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries

    Open AccessTammy Steuerwald, Duncan Blair et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    In vitro diagnostics (IVDs) play a pivotal role in healthcare for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases, especially during epidemic and pandemic outbreaks. Improving access to IVDs holds promise for better healthcare outcomes, particularly in resource-limited settings. However, challenges persist, such as regulatory disparities and financial constraints, hindering broad access to IVDs. To address these challenges, the In…

  • Provider perspectives on empirical antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis-like symptoms in South Africa’s private general practice sector

    Open AccessJeremiah Chikovore, Jody Boffa et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    While tuberculosis (TB) in South Africa is commonly treated in the public sector, some clients first seek care in the private sector. Research has demonstrated that private general practitioners (GPs) perform less well than do public sector care providers in TB testing and drug-dispensing practices. We aimed to describe GPs’ decision-making practices related to empiric antibiotic treatment when presented with symptoms that may be related to TB, t…

  • Individual journeys to tuberculosis care in Nigeria’s private sector during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessCharity Oga‐Omenka, Lauren Rosapep et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BACKGROUND: Pre-COVID-19, individuals with tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria were often underdiagnosed and untreated. TB services were mostly in the public sector with only 15% of new cases in 2019 reported from the private sector. Reports highlighted challenges in accessing care in the private sector, which accounted for 67% of all initial care-seeking. Our study examined patients' health seeking pathways for TB in Nigeria's private sector and explor…

  • Private sector tuberculosis care quality during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessAngelina Sassi, Lauren Rosapep et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    Only a third of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Nigeria in 2020 were diagnosed and notified, in part due to low detection and under-reporting from the private health sector. Using a standardised patient (SP) survey approach, we assessed how management of presumptive TB in the private sector aligns with national guidelines and whether this differed from a study conducted before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. 13 SPs presented a presumptive TB case …

  • Unlocking the potential of informal healthcare providers in tuberculosis care

    Open AccessPoshan Thapa, Padmanesan Narasimhan et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    In 2022, tuberculosis (TB) remained a major global health concern, second only to COVID-19 in mortality from a single infectious agent

  • Community-friendly diagnostics

    Open AccessFifa A Rahman, Kenly Sikwese et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

  • From lemming to leader

    Open AccessTiffany Nassiri-Ansari, Nina Schwalbe et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Nearly 90 years after Simon Kuznets first introduced Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the limited purpose of measuring economic growth (by measuring the monetary value of all local goods and services within a given period of time), calls continue to mount for decision-makers to stop using GDP and its derivate, Gross National Income (GNI), for purposes far beyond their original design [1].This is particularly true in the case of the development as…

  • Navigating time equity

    Open AccessSharifah Sekalala, Shajoe Lake et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been a surge in calls for equity to protect the world from future crises. Calls have emphasized equitable distribution of vaccines, a fair access and benefit sharing (ABS) system, and health systems strengthening, all leading to negotiation of a Pandemic Treaty

  • Conflicts in Gaza and around the world create a perfect storm for infectious disease outbreaks

    Open AccessJohn E Kearney, Natalie Thiel et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The global history of conflicts has revealed that infectious diseases resulting from displacement, overcrowding, healthcare collapse, destruction of critical water and sanitation infrastructure, and malnutrition can cause death rates equal or beyond those from direct violence The crisis in Gaza is no exception and has created a perfect storm for infectious disease outbreaks

  • The role of epistemic trust and epistemic disruption in vaccine hesitancy, conspiracy thinking and the capacity to identify fake news

    Open AccessMichal Tanzer, S S Settineri et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Epistemic trust ‐ defined as readiness to regard knowledge, communicated by another agent, as significant, relevant to the self, and generalizable to other contexts–has recently been applied to the field of developmental psychopathology as a potential risk factor for psychopathology. The work described here sought to investigate how the vulnerability engendered by disruptions in epistemic trust may not only impact psychological resilience and int…

  • Case fatality among people with drug-susceptible TB enrolled in a private health sector TB treatment support program in Bihar, India during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessLena Faust, Ayushi Ranjan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Experiencing 27% of the global tuberculosis (TB) burden, India’s TB epidemic is the largest in the world. Due to COVID-19-related disruptions to TB programs, India has also seen the largest drop in TB case notifications of any country globally. We estimated case fatality among people treated for TB in India during the pandemic and compared these to pre-pandemic estimates. A random sample of 4,000 adults enrolled in World Health Partners (WHP), a …

  • Drivers of success in global health outcomes

    Open AccessNadia Akseer, David E Phillips et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Applying a positive outlier lens is one effective approach for generating evidence to inform global health policy, program, and funding decisions. Exemplars in Global Health (EGH) is a program that studies positive outlier countries that have made extraordinary progress in health outcomes (despite limited resources) and disseminates their successes through multiple types of outputs. To date, EGH has studied, or is studying, 14 global health topic…

  • The shifting landscape of private healthcare providers before and during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessRodiah Widarna, Nur Afifah et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Introduction COVID-19 pandemic changed many aspects of healthcare services and deliveries, including among private healthcare providers (i.e., private healthcare facilities [HCFs] and private practitioners [PPs]). We aimed to compare the spatial distribution of private providers and describe changes in characteristics and services offered during and before the COVID-19 pandemic, and explore the tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19-related services offe…

  • Potential implications of the climate crisis on diagnostics

    Open AccessBernard Owusu Agyare, Paul Eder et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

  • From barrier to enabler

    Open AccessMarie Roseline Darnycka Bélizaire, Lynka Ineza et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

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