Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS
Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health
Inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health
McGill University
School of Population and Global Health
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Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS
@paimadhu – madhukar.pai@mcgill.ca
Prof. Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FRSC, FCAHS is a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, and inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, at McGill University, Montreal.
He 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 as a Consultant to the Gates Foundation, is the Director of McGill University’s Global Health Programs (2014 to 2020, and since 2024) and was the Director of the McGill International TB Centre from 2018 to 2020. He has served on the STAG-TB and SAGE-IVD committees of WHO, Geneva, and currently serves on the WHO STAG-TB Southeast Asia, the WHO Advisory group on Tuberculosis Diagnostics, the Scientific Advisory Committee of FIND, Geneva, and on the Expert Group on Tuberculosis Prevention and Control of the Global Coalition Against Tuberculosis (GCAT) among others. He has been a Commissioner on two Lancet Commissions (on TB and Diagnostics), and is currently the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of PLoS Global Public Health. He is on many editorial boards, including Lancet Infectious Diseases and PLoS Medicine.
Madhu’s research is mainly focused on improving the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, especially in high-burden countries like India. His research has been supported by grant funding from the Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has more than 395 peer-reviewed publications. He is a recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, and Haile T. Debas Prize. He is an elected fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada, and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
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