Greetings to all,
New and Notable
· Lancet Global Health May 2024: The association between disability and all-cause mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
· Lancet Public Health May 2024: Inequalities in physical and mental health among people in prison
· NEJM April 2024: Monoclonal Antibody to Prevent Malaria
· PLoS Global Public Health April 2024: Towards authentic institutional allyship by global health funders
Upcoming Local Events: April/May
Monday April 29th @ 3pm (zoom or in person at 135 College Street, Suite 200): CIRA Early-Career Scientists Panel: "The Nuts and Bolts of NIH Review"
Wednesday May 1st @ 530pm: Program for Biomedical Ethics Presents the Annual Thomas P. Duffy Lecture in Medical Ethics: "Disability Rights and Disorders of Consciousness: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Law and Medicine"
Wednesday, May 15th @ 2pm: NIH’s Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology: Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes: Intersection of Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities by Dr. Egede, University of Wisconsin. Watch the videocast here.Tuesday June 11th @ 1pm: Yale Child Study Center Grand Rounds: LGBTQ-affirmative mental health care – From theory to trials to community implementation and global dissemination by Dr. John Pachankis.
Past Trainings & Recordings Available:
- Online, free, self-paced course (~1.5hrs): Medicine for a Changing Planet: Case Studies.
- Online, free, self-paced course: History of Racism in Medicine by the Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education. The course takes 30 minutes to complete. To register, please visit the course website.
- ICAP/Columbia University: Improving Epidemic Readiness
- NIH: Culturally Competent Gender-related Norms Communications Training Resource
- UCONN INChip: Climate Change Impacts on Physical and Mental Health in the U.S. " by Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma, Boston University School of Public Health
- Stanford Building a Culture of Health Equity Lecture Series: Health Equity Research in the LGBTQ+ Community
- ICAP/Columbia University: The Refugee Crisis: Addressing the Health of Displaced Populations.
- Stanford Building a Culture of Health Equity Lecture Series: Teaching LGBTQ + Health
- UCONN INChip: Stigma of Health Conditions in the Global Context: Applying the 'What Matters Most' Approach to MentalIllness, HIV and Cancer Stigma by Dr. Lawrence Yang, NYU
- ICAP/Columbia: Cancer Initiative Webinar Series — Informing Cancer Equity with Globally Diverse Data
Additional Information:
- The application platform is open for the Department of Internal Medicine’s Cross-Distinction Resident Academic Fund! Through this fund, residents will have the opportunity to apply for awards of up to $500 per year. This money is intended to cover costs associated with presenting your Distinction Pathway-related work at a local, regional, national, or international conference, or other academic activities related to your participation in the Distinction Pathway. All Distinction Pathway residents are encouraged to apply, however, preference will be given to PGY-3s and PGY-4s, as well as (in the future) residents who have not previously received an award from this fund. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis - https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7NEkKKQS5XWEWF0
- To view prior seminars from the Yale Macmillan Center Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement & Humanitarian Responses, please visit/subscribe to the PRFDHR YouTube channel
- Missed a great webinar? Take a look at the Physicians for Human Rights online archive of COVID-19-related webinars, and also check out the Partners in Health COVID-19 Webinar series archive
- Yale Institute for Global Health website: https://medicine.yale.edu/yigh/ - subscribe to their newsletter and follow YIGH on Twitter and Facebook
- Global Health Journal List blog entry (https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/choosingajournal/globalhealth) - an interesting and fairly comprehensive list of global health journals! Good for folks who are interested in thinking about what to read or where you might like to publish.
- Sign up for the Global Mental Health Program mailing list: https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/globalmentalhealth/
- Link to the Macmillan Center calendar - Please visit this site for a list of upcoming events:http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/macmillan
- Subscribe to the daily “Global Health NOW” newsletter: http://www.globalhealthnow.org/subscribe.html
Best,
Tracy and Sheela
Co-Directors, Yale Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway