About the Inaugural Chair: Dr. Madhukar Pai
Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC聽is the Inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health at the 苹果淫院 School of Population and Global Health. He holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health. He is the Associate Director of the 苹果淫院 International TB Centre. He is Editor-In-Chief of聽PLOS Global Public Health.聽He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.聽
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.
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 is Editor-In-Chief of聽PLOS Global Public Health.
Madhu鈥檚 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 a recipient of the Union Scientific Prize, Chanchlani Global Health Research Award, Haile T. Debas Prize, and David Johnston Faculty & Staff Award.
Previous Interim Chair
Catherine Hankins MD, PhD, FRCPC, CM is a Professor of Population and Public Health and a community medicine specialist. Her scientific interests include COVID-19 immunity, novel biomedical HIV prevention, participatory research conduct, capacity building, scientific knowledge translation, and advancing women in science. She has worked globally to raise awareness and advocate for health. In addition to her research, she has chaired the USA National Institutes of Health HIV Prevention Trials Network Scientific Advisory Group (2012-2021); the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership鈥檚 Scientific Advisory Committee (2017-2022); and co-chaired Canada鈥檚 COVID-19 Immunity Task Force (2020-2023). She is an HIV Research Trust trustee and member of the International AIDS Society Industry Liaison Forum. In 2013, she was named to the Order of Canada in recognition of her contributions. Hankins holds MSc (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), PhD (University of Amsterdam), and MD (University of Calgary) degrees.