Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD

General research interests: Infectious diseases epidemiology, global health research and training in developing countries, evidence based medicine, diagnostic research methodology, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and teaching of epidemiology.Specific research interests: Epidemiological and clinical research on tuberculosis, epidemiologic basis for tuberculosis control, synthesis of evidence on tuberculosis, evaluation of novel diagnostic and prognostic tools for global tuberculosis control, nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis, and interactions between the TB and HIV epidemics.Infectious diseases epidemiology, tuberculosis, TB diagnosis, TB epidemiology, TB transmission, nosocomial transmission, global health, international health in developing countries