Nepali
IMPACT TB
Tuberculosis kills 5,000 people every day and over 1,000 people fall sick with TB each hour. The great majority of these are the poorest members of our society, with limited access to healthcare and no resources to cope with illness. We know that for any infectious disease the best way to control epidemics is either through vaccines or finding and treating every case to prevent transmission. The only TB vaccine, BCG, is not very effective and this has allowed TB to continue to kill millions of people every year. IMPACT TB is a project to find and treat cases of…
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Rajindra Napit of Nepal’s Center for Molecular Dynamics visits UK Partners
Posted on: December 15, 2022
Rajindra Napit of the Center for Molecular Dynamics (Nepal) visited the UK in November as part of the Epidemic Intelligence programme, visiting partners at LSTM, St Andrews and LSHTM. He also undertook genomic training at Cambridge… Read More
Birat Nepal Medical Trust celebrates 10 years!
Posted on: October 03, 2022
Congratulations to our IMPACT TB partner, the Birat Nepal Medical Trust, on delivering 10 years of incredible health research programmes across Nepal. To help celebrate, the team were delighted to be joined by the UK ambassador,… Read More
READ-It Project meeting takes place in Kathmandu
Posted on: September 21, 2022
The Birat Nepal Medical trust was delighted to host an international meeting of the READ-It project in September 2022. The Research, Evidence and Development Initiative (READ-It), led by Prof Paul garner of LSTM, is an accountable… Read More
Our Team
Maxine Caws
(Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine)
Max Caws is the Principal Investigator of IMPACT TB and a senior TB researcher at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. She was Head of the TB group at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit Vietnam for 11 years and researches diverse aspects of TB including drug resistance, diagnosis, clinical treatment trials, bacterial virulence and host susceptibility determinants. She is currently based in Kathmandu, Nepal. She has a BSc in biochemistry from the University of St Andrews, a PHD in medical microbiology from King’s College, London, where her thesis topic was tuberculous meningitis, and an MSC in epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical…
Raghu Dhital
(Executive Director, Birat Nepal Medical Trust)
Raghu Dhital is the Executive Director of BNMT. He has been involved with Birat Nepal Medical Trust, Nepal since July 2014. His main responsibilities are to oversee the overall activities of BNMT; develop strategies, plans and activities for the all the programs of BNMT; establish good coordination and collaboration with government authorities, District Health Offices, NGO partners and advocates and facilitate the successful implementation of Tuberculosis Control Program. Before taking this role, Raghu served as the Deputy director of BNMT. He previously worked as Project Manager for IMPACT TB phase I from 2017-2019. He was involved in Britain Nepal Medical Trust as a TB REACH…
Kritika Dixit
(Research Manager, Birat Nepal Medical Trust)
Kritika Dixit is a Research Manager at BNMT with experience of over eight years in infectious diseases, mental health and reproductive and sexual health. Her main area of interest is the social and structural determinants of health and the design and evaluation of socioeconomic interventions to tackle these factors. Ms Dixit led research projects that mainly involve exploring barriers to healthcare access especially in rural areas and to provide evidence to inform patient-centric healthcare models to improve equity in communities. More recently, she led the research implementation in the projects supported by the European Union, the Wellcome Trust, UK, and the Stop TB partnership which…