Registrations Open for 2023 McGill Summer Institute

Published on January 20, 2023
The McGill Summer Institutes in Global Health is now accepting registrations for summer 2023! Our Institute in Infectious Diseases and Global Health is offering 10 courses this summer—with both online and in-person options available. We are thrilled to announce that this year McGill Summer Institute will offer for the first time a course on Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM). 
Explore the new courses and join us in 2023!
TB Courses at the 2023 McGill Summer Institute
Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM)
This TB - PPM course offers a week of online teaching, discussions panels, presentations, and interaction to deepen your understanding on the following areas of PPM: a) Engaging the Private Sector: Why and What; b) Policy and Financing; c) Partnerships: Operational Planning: d) Implementation and Monitoring; e) Quality of TB Care and New Tools. 
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Advanced TB Diagnostics
This advanced course will cover topics in TB diagnostics research and implementation, including pipeline of innovations, critical pathway for new TB 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 also cover meta-analysis, mathematical modeling, and cost-effectiveness studies. Panel discussions will cover topics such as value chain for TB diagnostics development, market analyses, market dynamics, target product profiles, and barriers to scale-up of new diagnostics.
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TB Research Methods
An intensive course on methods of operational research, randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, qualitative / community-based research, decision analyses and modeling. Format will include lectures, debates, panel discussions and small group work.
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Why the McGill Summer Institute? The unique format of short non-credit professional development courses attracts a diverse group of participants, from industry leaders to NGO’s, academics and researchers, and advocacy group members. We look forward to welcoming participants back to the beautiful city of Montreal for many of the courses, but for those joining online, the online platform we selected will encourage and enable participants to connect with each other, our faculty members, our exhibitors, and our guest speakers. These connections can take place real-time or asynchronously as your schedule and time zone allow.  View all courses happening May 23-June 16, 2023 our website.

 

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