{"id":14689,"date":"2025-09-03T10:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/?post_type=mec-events&p=14689"},"modified":"2026-02-03T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:21:43","slug":"expanding-the-imagination-and-solution-space-in-global-health-with-madhukar-pai","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/dighr\/events\/expanding-the-imagination-and-solution-space-in-global-health-with-madhukar-pai\/","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the Imagination and Solution Space in Global Health, with Madhukar Pai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE: Tickets to attend in person for this event are sold out<\/strong>. Please register for online attendance at the bottom of this page.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In global health the most visible \u201csolutions\u201d to hunger, poverty, and disease are often imagined by those who have never borne the weight of these realities. To truly open up the solution space, we will need to center the expertise of people with lived experience and who are the most impacted by structural violence. Through a series of examples, we will illustrate that solution spaces are not fixed; they expand or contract based on who is centered in the conversation and whether their lived realities are considered legitimate grounds for policymaking and action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In preparation for this seminar, Dr. Pai has recommended reading \u201cYou can\u2019t see what you\u2019ve never had to live\u201d\u2014Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Profile<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC <\/strong>is the Inaugural Chair, 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 was previously Director of the McGill International TB Centre. He was the inaugural Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.<\/em> He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 was the inaugural Editor-In-Chief of PLOS Global Public Health.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Madhu\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register below and join us online on October 8, 2025 at 1 p.m.!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Registration for this event has closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thank you for your interest in this event. Please find the seminar recording and written recap here.<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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