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For nine years, the McGill Summer Insitute for Global Health has been offering enriching short courses tailored for students and professionals alike. Continuing this tradition of excellence, the 2024 Summer Institutes promise an array of 15 courses, each meticulously crafted by McGill professors and internationally renowned faculty. Both online and in-person courses are available, ensuring accessible participation for all
This year, the focus on Tuberculosis education shines through with four dedicated courses on TB. We are ecstatic to announce the return of our TBPPM Course, 'Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM)' now in its second year at McGill Summer Institute! Dive into this enriching experience and expand your TB knowledge.
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Engaging all health providers to End TB: Public-Private Mix (PPM) (Online - Monday-Friday)
May 21 and June 3-7, 2024
The TBPPM course offers a week of online teaching and discussions on a range of topics relevant to engaging private providers in TB prevention and care. Faculty and participants will include TB survivors, PPM implementers, donors, policy makers, academics, clinicians, community advocates, public health implementers, and National TB Program managers.
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Nutrition and Tuberculosis (Online - Wednesday-Friday)
May 22 - 24, 2024
Undernutrition is a key biological expression of social inequality. This course will provide state of the art knowledge and evidence on the interactions between TB and nutrition, discuss technical and operational aspects of nutritional assessment, counselling, and provision of nutritional support, and outline areas of research in this emerging field in TB care and prevention.
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Advanced TB Diagnostics (Online - Monday-Friday)
May 27 - 31, 2024
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.
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TB Research Methods (Hybrid -
Monday-Friday)
June 10 - 14, 2024
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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Week 1: May 21-24, 2024
Week 2: May 27-31, 2024
Week 3: June 3-7, 2024
Week 4: June 10-14, 2024
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