Madhukar Pai (also known as Madhu Pai) is a Canadian medical doctor, academic, advocate,[1] writer,[2] and university professor. He is the Associate Director of the McGill International Tuberculosis Centre.[3] Pai's work focuses on global health, specifically advocacy for better treatment for tuberculosis[4][5] with a focus on South Africa and India.[6][7] Pai is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health in the School of Population and Global Health[8] and holds a Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health at McGill University.[9] He is recognised globally, and is a key leader in the decolonising global health movement - recognised for his advocacy on making global health more diverse, inclusive, and equitable.[5][10]
Pai is a frequent media commentator on the COVID-19 pandemic in India,[13][2][14] and in 2021 drew comparisons of the collective global action taken in response to the COVID19 pandemic versus the relative inaction towards tuberculosis.[15] His 2021 paper in PLOS Medicine addressed power asymmetries in global health.[16]
In 2020[17] and in 2021[18] he published papers and contributions about the decolonisation of global health work. His called to address racism and colonialism in Global Health at the AIDS 2022 conference. [19]
In 2021, Pai was critical of the global failure to widely vaccinate people against COVID-19, accused high-income nations of vaccine hoarding, and called for a waiver of intellectual property laws regarding COVID19 vaccines.[20] In 2022 he described the global response to COVID-19 as an "unmitigated disaster".[21]
Awards
Listed in the 50 Scientists that Inspire in 2024 by the Cell Press[22]
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