Madhu Pai, MD, PhD
@madhupai.bsky.social
Inaugural Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, McGill University, Montreal & Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology & Global Health 🇨🇦 Tweets: own views. He/him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhukar_Pai
An Invasive Mosquito (Anopheles stephensi) Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities (Gift Article)
The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.
nytimes.com
Any serious agenda for country ownership should include global wealth taxation, sustained distributive justice programmes, debt cancellation, debt restructuring, grant-based financing, and reparative transfers @lancetgh.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Country ownership without fiscal justice is responsibility without resources
Recent debates in global health, including reproductive health, have embraced an attractive proposition: as donor assistance contracts, countries in the Global South might finally define their own hea...
thelancet.com
“Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach” @drtedros.who.int www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why the need for the WHO has never been greater
Diseases don’t stop at borders. Pandemics, climate change and conflicts demand a collective approach.
nature.com
Sometimes it is good to see the big picture and better understand why the world is the mess it is I find Dr Marya's framework very helpful medium.com/@radiorupa/h...
An Invasive Mosquito (Anopheles stephensi) Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities @stephanienolen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
An Invasive Mosquito Is Spreading With Alarming Speed, Threatening Africa’s Cities (Gift Article)
The malaria-carrying mosquito is resistant to all insecticides. Scientists are scrambling to find ways to blunt the risk.
nytimes.com
Deeply grateful, Prof. @madhupai.bsky.social That line sits at the heart of what we wanted to say: naming the structures, not just the symptoms. Your work convening these conversations is a big part of why they feel possible. Thank you for reading and amplifying. @bmj.com @dbernals.bsky.social
Madhu Pai, MD, PhD@madhupai.bsky.social · 4d ago“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
“Innovation without access is injustice" - Brazilian Health Minister Dr Alexandre Padilha, at the AIDS conference in Rio Lenacapavir Tested in Brazil, Argentina, Peru.... Denied to these populations healthpolicy-watch.news/brazil-pushe...
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Moderna begins first human trial of Bundibugyo Ebola vaccine
Moderna on Tuesday said it has begun its first human trial of an experimental vaccine to protect against Bundibugyo ebolavirus, a strain of Ebola that has killed more than 1,650 people so far and cu...
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As the U.S. measles cases reach 35-year high in 2026, we owe children the protection they deserve
In today’s issue of @thelancet.com I reflect on the importance of context in #inequalities #research, where nuanced understanding demands more than just a sound bite 💬 or stock photograph 📸 which potentially stigmatises those from disadvantaged communities www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“Innovation without access is injustice" - Brazilian Health Minister Dr Alexandre Padilha, at the AIDS conference in Rio Lenacapavir Tested in Brazil, Argentina, Peru.... Denied to these populations healthpolicy-watch.news/brazil-pushe...
A summer of fire, smoke and chaos This will be our recurring nightmare, if we don’t act on climate change
As the U.S. measles cases reach 35-year high in 2026, we owe children the protection they deserve
“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy
Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...
bmj.com
Pourquoi autant de cas confirmés d'Ébola en si peu de temps en RDC ? Il n’y a pas une seule explication. Il y en a plusieurs, et elles s’additionnent. Et tout n'est pas désespoir...lire ma chronique du 1er août 2026 www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...?
Pourquoi une ascension si rapide de cas confirmés d’Ebola en RDC?
Il n’y a pas une seule explication à cette progression record. Il y en a plusieurs, et elles s’additionnent.
ledevoir.com
A summer of fire, smoke and chaos This will be our recurring nightmare, if we don’t act on climate change
👏🏽👏🏽 This August, the first at-home screening tool to determine whether the tick that bit you carries Lyme disease will hit the market www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...
Visa rules making scientists ‘despair www.timeshighereducation.com/news/visa-ru...
Visa rules making scientists ‘despair’, says China-bound Nobelist
Chemistry laureate Omar Yaghi says US policies inhibiting mobility and international cooperation as he heads for Tsinghua University
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Ivermectin is back, now for cancer! The Canadian public must be made aware about this disinformation and pseudoscience @docmcohen.medsky.social @healthydebate.bsky.social cc @picardonhealth.bsky.social healthydebate.ca/2026/07/topi...
Cancer pseudoscience and the cultural moment - Healthy Debate
healthydebate.ca
ICYMI: I wrote an article for @healthydebate.bsky.social earlier this week about ivermectin, historical cancer scams, and the William Makis online grift economy.
Michelle Cohen@docmcohen.medsky.social · 6d agoNEW: Cancer Pseudoscience and the Cultural Moment I wrote about how cancer quackery often capitalizes on its era of origin's social tensions. In our current moment, a Canadian former doctor and prolific COVID disinfo promotor is the reason ivermectin has become an ever-expanding online scam.
“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...
Reforming global health architecture requires confronting its political economy
Daniel Bernal-Serrano and colleagues argue that the preventable deaths caused by global health inequity are structural outcomes of a capitalist world economy, which organisational reform alone cannot ...
bmj.com
A sad, recurring story in global health : those who need medicines the most are least likely to receive them www.science.org/content/arti...
Inspiring and ground-breaking! New @thelancet.com journal, The Lancet Surgery & Anaesthesiology, launched with a woman, Global South editor-in-chief (Amy Slogrove) www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4kd...
Announcing The Lancet Surgery & Anaesthesiology
YouTube video by The Lancet
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This is why diagnostics matter in global health, not just medicines and vaccines!! Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected @kakape.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
science.org
They keep finding ways of displaying their stupidity and racism US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
reuters.com
This is why diagnostics matter in global health, not just medicines and vaccines!! Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected @kakape.bsky.social @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
science.org
They keep finding ways of displaying their stupidity and racism US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference www.reuters.com/world/africa...
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
reuters.com
A sad, recurring story in global health : those who need medicines the most are least likely to receive them www.science.org/content/arti...
