Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
@madhupai
Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, McGill University, Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health 🇨🇦 Tweets: own views. He/him.
Sometimes it is good to see the big picture and better understand why the world is the mess it is I find Dr Marya's framework very helpful medium.com/@radiorupa/h...
Fires 🔥 across Canada 🇨🇦 We are so vulnerable to climate change www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
“Innovation without access is injustice" - Brazilian Health Minister Dr Alexandre Padilha, at the AIDS conference in Rio Lenacapavir Tested in Brazil, Argentina, Peru.... Denied to these populations healthpolicy-watch.news/brazil-pushe...
As the U.S. measles cases reach 35-year high in 2026, we owe children the protection they deserve
A summer of fire, smoke and chaos This will be our recurring nightmare, if we don’t act on climate change
👏🏽👏🏽 This August, the first at-home screening tool to determine whether the tick that bit you carries Lyme disease will hit the market www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...
A sad, recurring story in global health : those who need medicines the most are least likely to receive them www.science.org/content/arti...
Stunning photo, taken soon after the 1954 Salk polio vaccine trial that involved 1.8 million children! We all need reminders on how the world looked like before widespread vaccination and how much people welcomed the miracles that we call vaccines today
Every PhD student and supervisor knows that it’s hard to predict exactly how long it will take to complete a thesis This 4 year limit is stupid, dumb and will make the US less attractive for students www.nature.com/articles/d41...
As we fail to act on climate change, we risk turning the clock back to a time when air pollution used to kill people by the thousands The famous Great Smog of London killed more than 10,000 people in 1952
From Thomas Mann to John Green, many authors have attempted to tell the story of TB, or stories of people with TB My editorial is a celebration of a selection of books and authors journals.theunion.org/content/ijtl...
In the middle of all the devastating heat waves and forest fires, let us not forget the biggest oil hungry, climate change denier who pulled out of the Paris Agreement and is bullying other countries into also abandoning climate action
"People are actively denied access to affordable medicines by oudated patent rules and economic policies dominated by neoliberalism. It is no accident, and its not due to the pharma industry alone" @tahiramin.bsky.social & Malpani www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Great to see this declaration that brings more ambition to tuberculosis diagnosis! Please consider adding your signature! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
All global health practitioners should treat debt justice as a health financing issue www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This Grand Challenge seeks specific, field-ready innovations in pan-Orthoebolavirus diagnostics that address the concrete gaps exposed by the 2026 outbreak and prepare the global community for the next one gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/in...
Easy like Sunday morning What a treat to see the great man perform live in Montreal
"Being a refugee is itself a profound determinant of health, and no amount of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy can fully resolve the distress and anxiety caused by exclusion, financial instability, and insecurity" @lancetgh.bsky.social
"Today nearly three out of four people on earth live under authoritarianism, the highest rate since the late 1970s. But even under repressive conditions, each of us holds the power to help defeat autocrats" @juliaangwin.com @fieldsmeyer.com www.harpercollins.com/products/on-...
“one of the darkest periods of public health in the history of America” - HHS insider www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
This interdisciplinary conference in Ottawa will bring together experts in global and public health law, policy, history, and practice, to discuss the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, and its relevance today @roojinhabibi.org www.ottawahealthlaw.ca/conferences/...
Some new books that can help all of us better understand the world around us
At the end of the class, I asked the students how they plan to act and find radical hope Their responses 👇
Gave a talk in a global health course at a US university today At the start of the class, I asked the students how they are feeling about the state of the world these days Their responses 👇
Informal providers are major dispensers of antibiotics in low and middle-income countries This is a major blind spot in global antimicrobial stewardship initiatives gh.bmj.com/content/11/6...
What happens with rising authoritarianism, collapse of multilateralism, aid cuts, and erosion of global solidarity? Outbreaks happen and will be harder to prevent or contain journals.plos.org/globalpublic...