PLOS Tuberculosis Channel launched

Soumya Swaminathan Madhukar Pai
March 28, 2017, 5:33 p.m.
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The Channel features articles on all topics relevant to TB research and aims to showcase the most up-to-date research to assist various stakeholders in the fight against TB.

PLOS Blogs’ “Speaking of Medicine”: Announcing the PLOS Tuberculosis Channel

Soumya Swaminathan, secretary of the Department of Health Research in India’s Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and director general of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), and Madhukar Pai, Canada research chair in epidemiology and global health at McGill University, Montreal, director of the McGill Global Health Programs, and associate director of the McGill International TB Centre, announce the launch of the PLOS Tuberculosis Channel, for which they serve as editors. “The Tuberculosis Channel features articles on all topics relevant to TB research” and aims “to showcase the most up-to-date research to assist various stakeholders in the fight against TB, including academics, health care workers, policymakers, implementers, patients, and civil society…”