Global Health News

Registration Deadline: Feb 28, 2015
Course Dates: July 6-17, 2015
Location: Montreal, Canada

The McGill Summer Institute in Infectious Diseases & Global Health is offering 3 courses in the summer of 2015, with internationally renowned faculty, diverse participant groups, and fellowships for low‐income country researchers.

Tuberculosis Research Methods Course

An intensive course on methods of operational research, molecular epidemiology, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta‐analyses, decision analyses and modeling. Format will include lectures, panel discussions and small groups to develop and present study protocols.

Global Health Diagnostics Course

This course will convene key stakeholder groups on global health diagnostics, focus on TB, HIV, and malaria, HIV co‐infections, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and selected neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), and cover issues such as value chain for diagnostics development, current pipeline of diagnostics, unmet needs, market size and dynamics, policies on diagnostics, barriers for scale‐up, regulation, supply chain, and quality assurance.  

Advanced Course in TB Diagnostic Research

This advanced course will cover advanced topics in TB diagnostics research and implementation, including incremental value of new tests, impact of new tests on clinical decision‐making and therapeutic choices, cost‐effectiveness in routine programmatic settings, and impact on patient‐important outcomes. The course will introduce multivariable approaches to diagnostic research, and cover alternative designs which evaluate patient outcomes, including the diagnostic RCT, and implementation research.

For more information please visit the McGill Global Health Programs page.