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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
@paimadhu
Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health @McGill_SPGH. Canada Research Chair in Epi & Global Health. Editor @PLOSGPH. Tweets: own views. He/him.
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Nov 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Advice for aspiring global health experts by @FavouredAmaka @LazenyaR @VuyisekaDubula @mcwangari

1. Deeply reflect on your motivation for aspiring to become a global health expert
2. Be humble and respectful of people’s lived experiences (worth more than qualifications or pubs) 3. Be comfortable being lifelong learners and open to new ideas and different viewpoints
4. Balance your academic training with hands-on work experience in culturally diverse settings
May 5, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
WHO ended the 'emergency' today but these images are a reminder of who got left behind & who had the worst of it

- 2.3 billion people still unvaccinated against COVID, ~90% in low and middle income countries

pandem-ic.com/mapping-our-un… Image The pandemic has claimed ~20 million excess deaths globally

"developing countries – not high-income countries – account for the bulk of global mortality"

pandem-ic.com/a-life-lost-is…
Nov 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
I always end my global health course by talking about what we should NOT do

This year, these 3 are readings

#1 How (not) to write about global health by @desmondtanko

gh.bmj.com/content/5/7/e0… #2 How not to become a global health expert, by @FavouredAmaka

speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2022/08/02/how…
Oct 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
When I was a med student in India in the 80s, I remember seeing polio and treating cholera

To see these infections resurface in a big way in 2022 is simply stunning and downright scary

See thread 👇🏾 Polio is endemic in Afghanistan & Pakistan (with conflict & climate crisis)

Polio has been detected in London & NYC where it had previously been eliminated

Brazil, Dominican Rep, Peru and Haiti are at risk

Falling routine vaccination is a huge concern

weforum.org/agenda/2022/10…
Sep 6, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"Although few or none in global health today would identify in support of the colonial project, the roads on which we all walk were built for extractive purposes and still embody unquestioned inequalities of power & privilege" @JesseBump @IfyAniebo

journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… Image Such an interesting piece that uses malaria as a case study to explore the colonial origins of global health and what decolonization could mean
Jul 7, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
At @PLOSGPH, we just published our first collection (series) on

Rethinking Malaria

speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2022/06/24/ret… Financing malaria

by

Ravindra P. Rannan-Eliya

journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…
Jul 7, 2022 • 10 tweets • 7 min read
Short 🧵to amplify Indigenous perspectives on decolonizing global health

Recent lit & events on 'decolonizing global health' have largely ignored Indigenous peoples & perspectives

But "you can’t truly decolonize without listening to and uplifting local Indigenous voices" 👇🏾 "True decolonization means genuinely listening to Indigenous community members and creating shifts in the power dynamics" @OwenLOliver

aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/dec…
Feb 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
Wow! Explosion of new global health books from Indian authors!

Quick thread In her book "To Hell and Back" @BDUTT shares the story of India's Covid-19 pandemic from the viewpoint of people who lived through it

amazon.in/HELL-BACK-Huma…