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null Nitika Pai, MD, MPH, PhD

Scientist, RI-MUHC

Infectious Diseases and Immunity in Global Health Program

Centre for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University

Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Epidemiology, MUHC

 

Keywords

digital health • implementation science • point-of-care diagnostics • global health

Research Focus

My Global Implementation Research program is focused on point-of-care diagnostics for HIV and associated co-infections (hepatitis C, hepatitis B, HPV, bacterial STIs) and COVID-19. My research aims to inform domestic and global policies on point-of-care diagnostics for HIV/STBBI, particularly as it relates to digital health innovations that expand access, linkage and retention, as well as managing the trajectory of care for patients living with these conditions. My work has been featured in the Changemakers section of the Economist twice and in Maclean’s, The Globe and Mail, Montreal Gazette, Times Now, Times, CTV, CBC, La Presse, Radio Canada, BBC and Al Jazeera, among other media. I was featured in the list of Canadian Women in Global Health in 2018 and in 2020. Working in the field of diagnostics for the past 15 years, I have experience with research initiatives in four countries and health systems: the United States, Canada, South Africa and India.

Selected Publications

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  • Pai NP, Esmail A, Saha-Chaudhuri P, Oelofse S, Pretorius M, Marathe G*, Daher J*, Smallwood M*, Karatzas N*, Fadul M, de Waal A*, Engel N, Zwerling AA, Dheda K. Impact of a personalised, digital, HIV self-testing app-based program on linkages and new infections in the township populations of South Africa. BMJ Glob Health. 2021 Sept 2;6:e006032. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006032. PMID: 34475026.

  • McGuire M*, de Waal A*, Karellis A*, Janssen R*, Engel N, Sampath R, Carmona S, Zwerling AA, Suarez MF, Pai NP. Digital HIVST as a new paradigm for HIV self-testing: a systematic review of global evidence (2010-2020). Lancet’s EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Aug. doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.101059. PMID: 34430835.

  • Pai NP, Karellis A*, Kim J, Peter T. Modern Diagnostic Technologies for HIV. The Lancet HIV. 2020 Aug;7: e574-81. doi: 10.1016/S2352-3018(20)30190-9. PMID: 32763220.

  • Naeem F*, Karellis A*, Nair S, Routy J-P, Yansouni CP, Kim J, Pai NP. Multiplexed Technologies for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Global Evidence on Patient-centered and Implementation Research Outcomes. BMJ Global Health, 2021 Jul;6(7):e005670. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005670. PMID: 34301675.

  • Karellis A*, Naeem F*, Nair S, Mallya S, Routy J-P, Gahagan J, Yansouni CP, Kim J, Pai NP. Multiplexed rapid technologies for sexually transmitted infections: a systematic review. The Lancet Microbe. 2021 Nov 24. doi: 10.1016/S2666-5247(21)00191-9.