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Jay Achar

Jay Achar

Phd Student
Visiting address: Widerströmska huset Tomtebodavägen 18 A, plan 3, 17165 Solna
Postal address: K9 Global folkhälsa, K9 GPH Alfvén Lönnroth, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I trained as a ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ doctor at University College London before moving to Melbourne, Australia to complete my specialist training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. Over the past decade, I have gained extensive international experience in low resource settings both in health programming and operational research. Following an intensive 18 months supporting West African Ebola interventions in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, my work has focused more strongly on TB and HIV both in the ex-CIS countries (Belarus, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan) and in sub-Saharan Africa (South Sudan, DR Congo, Chad).

    Within the TB community, I have contributed to a number of policy and consultation documents to help improve the support given to national programmes and continue to participate in a wide range of initiatives to train colleagues who treat people suffering with TB. After completing my specialist training, I have been awarded a MSc with distinction in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and have received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the Royal College of Physicians, London.

    Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Royal College of Physicians, London
    Masters in Epidemiology (MSc) - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
    Fellow of the Royal College of Australian Physicians (FRACP) - Infectious Diseases
    Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) - University College London

Research

  • Funded by VenenskapsrÃ¥det (Swedish Research Council), my PhD project will
    investigate the ability of aerosol detection of tuberculosis to predict
    household transmission. The project includes a number of laboratory and
    clinical studies in Sweden, South Africa and Mozambique establishing the
    performance of a new device to detect aerosolised pathogens and to then
    investigate the association between detection in adult patients and
    transmission within the household.

    I continue to collaborate with old colleagues in a number of academic
    institutions in the field of TB both to contribute to a chronically
    underfunded and poorly understood research field and to learn new things from
    experienced collaborators. I am particularily interested in the treatment of
    drug-resistant tuberculosis in adults and children as well as the impact of
    treatment of TB infection.

    After working with large quantities of diverse data, I believe strongly in
    the role of well managed data in supporting health-related decision making. I
    have extensive practical experience in data collection and data management in
    challenging environments and have built on the knowledge of
    regression modelling I gained during my MSc.

Articles

  • Article: THE LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2024;24(10):1151-1161
    Korotych O; Achar J; Gurbanova E; Hovhannesyan A; Lomtadze N; Ciobanu A; Skrahina A; Dravniece G; Kuksa L; Rich M; Khachatryan N; Germanovych M; Kadyrov A; Terleieva I; Akhundova I; Adenov M; Durdyeva M; Kiria N; Parpieva N; Yatskevich N; Jumayev R; Nurov R; Diktanas S; Vilc V; Migliori GB; Yedilbayev A
  • Article: IJTLD OPEN. 2024;1(7):285-291
    Rekart ML; Thit P; Oluya M; Moe S; Hasan T; Parpieva N; Safaev K; Khristusev A; Zinaida T; Singh J; Allamuratova S; Azamat I; Restrepo CG; Sitali N; Achar J; Alvaraez JL; Sinha A
  • Article: GLOBALIZATION AND HEALTH. 2024;20(1):51
    Kohler S; Achar J; Mulder C; Sitali N; Paul N
  • Article: IJTLD OPEN. 2024;1(3):103-110
    Migliori GB; Korotych O; Achar J; Ciobanu A; Dravniece G; Germanovych M; Gurbanova E; Hovhannesyan A; Khachatryan N; Kuksa L; Lomtadze N; Rich ML; Skrahina A; Yedilbayev A
  • Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE. 2023;27(10):748-753
    Rekart ML; Aung A; Cullip T; Mulanda W; Mun L; Pirmahmadzoda B; Kliescokova J; Achar J; Alvarez JL; Sitali N; Sinha A
  • Article: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE. 2023;27(8):584-598
    Chiang SS; Graham SM; Schaaf HS; Marais BJ; Sant'Anna CC; Sharma S; Starke JR; Triasih R; Achar J; Amanullah F; Armitage LY; Aurilio RB; Buck WC; Centis R; Chabala C; Cruz AT; Demers A-M; du Preez K; Enimil A; Furin J; Garcia-Prats AJ; Gonzalez NE; Hoddinott G; Isaakidis P; Jaganath D; Kabra SK; Kampmann B; Kay A; Kitai I; Lopez-Varela E; Maleche-Obimbo E; Malaspina FM; Velasquez JN; Nuttall JJC; Oliwa JN; Andrade IO; Perez-Velez CM; Rabie H; Seddon JA; Sekadde MP; Shen A; Skrahina A; Soriano-Arandes A; Steenhoff AP; Tebruegge M; Tovar MA; Tsogt B; van der Zalm MM; Welch H; Migliori GB
  • Article: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;45(2):481-487
    Kohler S; Sitali N; Achar J; Paul N
  • Article: MICROBIOLOGY SPECTRUM. 2023;11(1):e0369822-e03622
    Rekart ML; Mun L; Aung A; Gomez D; Mulanda W; Kliescikova J; Sitali N; Rajabov A; Azamova S; Pirmahmadzoda B; Achar J; Alvarez JL; Greig J; du Cros P; Sinha A
  • Article: PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. 2023;3(4):e0000818
    Rodriguez CA; Lodi S; Horsburgh CR; Mitnick CD; Bastard M; Huerga H; Khan U; Rich M; Seung KJ; Atwood S; Manzur-Ul-Alam M; Melikyan N; Mpinda S; Myint Z; Naidoo Y; Petrosyan O; Salahuddin N; Sarfaraz S; Vilbrun SC; Yae K; Achar J; Ahmed S; Algozhina E; Beauchamp J; de Guadelupe Perea Moreno S; Gulanbaeva M; Gergedava M; Indah Sari CY; Hewison C; Khan P; Franke MF
  • Article: THE LANCET GLOBAL HEALTH. 2022;10(12):e1774-e1781
    Ranasinghe L; Achar J; Groschel MI; Whittaker E; Dodd PJ; Seddon JA
  • Article: PLOS GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. 2022;2(8):e0000567
    Kohler S; Sitali N; Achar J; Paul N
  • Article: ERJ OPEN RESEARCH. 2022;8(1):622-2021
    Kohler S; Sitali N; Achar J; Paul N
  • Article: TROPICAL MEDICINE AND INTERNATIONAL HEALTH. 2021;26(4):421-427
    Gil H; Margaryan H; Azamat I; Ziba B; Bayram H; Nazirov P; Gomez D; Singh J; Zayniddin S; Parpieva N; Achar J
  • Article: MONALDI ARCHIVES FOR CHEST DISEASE. 2021;91(1)
    Russkikh A; Korotych O; Sereda Y; Samoilova A; Achar J; Yedilbayev A; Dara M; Vasilyeva I
  • Article: MONALDI ARCHIVES FOR CHEST DISEASE. 2021;91(1)
    Diktanas S; Korotych O; Sereda Y; Gozalov O; Rubcova O; Achar J
  • Article: ERJ OPEN RESEARCH. 2021;7(1):537-2020
    du Cros P; Khamraev A; Tigay Z; Abdrasuliev T; Greig J; Cooke G; Herboczek K; Pylypenko T; Berry C; Ronnachit A; Lister D; Dietrich S; Ariti C; Safaev K; Nyang'wa B-T; Parpieva N; Tillashaikhov M; Achar J
  • Article: BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2020;20(1):675
    Horter S; Stringer B; Gray N; Parpieva N; Safaev K; Tigay Z; Singh J; Achar J
  • Article: EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL. 2020;55(3):1901467
    Abidi S; Achar J; Neino MMA; Bang D; Benedetti A; Brode S; Campbell JR; Casas EC; Conradie F; Dravniece G; du Cros P; Falzon D; Jaramillo E; Kuaban C; Lan Z; Lange C; Li PZ; Makhmudova M; Maug AKJ; Menzies D; Migliori GB; Miller A; Myrzaliev B; Ndjeka N; Noeske J; Parpieva N; Piubello A; Schwoebel V; Sikhondze W; Singla R; Souleymane MB; Trebucq A; Van Deun A; Viney K; Weyer K; Zhang BJ; Khan FA
  • Article: PLOS ONE. 2020;15(11):e0242359
    Horter S; Achar J; Gray N; Parpieva N; Tigay Z; Singh J; Stringer B
  • Article: PLOS MEDICINE. 2018;15(7):e1002591
    Harausz EP; Garcia-Prats AJ; Law S; Schaaf HS; Kredo T; Seddon JA; Menzies D; Turkova A; Achar J; Amanullah F; Barry P; Becerra M; Chan ED; Chan PC; Chiotan DI; Crossa A; Drobac PC; Fairlie L; Falzon D; Flood J; Gegia M; Hicks RM; Isaakidis P; Kadri SM; Kampmann B; Madhi SA; Marais E; Mariandyshev A; Mendez-Echevarria A; Moore BK; Nargiza P; Ozere I; Padayatchi N; Saleem-ur-Rehman; Rybak N; Santiago-Garcia B; Shah NS; Sharma S; Shim TS; Skrahina A; Soriano-Arandes A; van den Boom M; van der Werf MJ; van der Werf TS; Williams B; Yablokova E; Yim J-J; Furin J; Hesseling AC
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All other publications

  • Letter: EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL. 2023;62(5):2300969
    Achar J; Seddon JA; Knight GM; Dodd PJ; Esmail H; Hughes J; Mcquaid CF
  • Review: PATHOGENS. 2022;11(4):381
    Howell P; Achar J; Huang GKL; Mariandyshev A; Schaaf HS; Garcia-Prats AJ
  • Review: BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2020;20(1):298
    Swaminathan A; du Cros P; Achar J; Kliescikova J; Mirgayosieva S; Pirmahmadzoda B
  • Review: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2019;25(3):441-450
    Osman M; Harausz EP; Garcia-Prats AJ; Schaaf HS; Moore BK; Hicks RM; Achar J; Amanullah F; Barry P; Becerra M; Chiotan DI; Drobac PC; Flood J; Furin J; Gegia M; Isaakidis P; Mariandyshev A; Ozere I; Shah NS; Skrahina A; Yablokova E; Seddon JA; Hesseling AC
  • Review: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE. 2017;195(10):1300-1310
    Harausz EP; Garcia-Prats AJ; Seddon JA; Schaaf HS; Hesseling AC; Achar J; Bernheimer J; Cruz AT; D'Ambrosio L; Detjen A; Graham SM; Hughes J; Jonckheere S; Marais BJ; Migliori GB; McKenna L; Skrahina A; Tadolini M; Wilson P; Furin J
  • Letter: THE LANCET. 2016;388(10057):2234
    Berry C; Achar J; du Cros P
  • Letter: EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 2015;21(11):2105-2106
    Achar J; Berry C; Herboczek K; Parpieva N; Tillyashaykhov MN; Tigay ZN; Khamraev A; Velivela K; Seddon JA; du Cros P
  • Review: OBSTETRIC MEDICINE. 2015;8(3):108-113
    Black BO; Caluwaerts S; Achar J

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