Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for December 2, 2024

Dear GHEDP Colleagues,

• THIS THURSDAY! We are thrilled to be hosting Dr. Pranay Sinha (Trad ’17, first GHEDP graduate, and experienced Op-Ed author) from Boston University for two very special events designed to help us use our physician voices to advocate for global health issues. The first event will be held in person and will take place on Thursday, December 5^th @ 7pm! Please RSVP HERE by 5pm on Tuesday, Dec 3^rd for Thursday’s workshop so we can plan for food.
• THIS WEDNESDAY! The Global Health Night Out team looks forward to convening our first event of the year, focusing on providing medical aid in Ukraine, featuring Julia Abratańska, co-founder of Renegade Relief Runners, and Melissa Hazlitt, Chief Medical Supplies Officer for Renegade Relief Runners and Yale Emergency Medicine alum, will discuss their experiences providing medical aid in Ukraine. Julia will share her work coordinating critical medical supplies during the full-scale invasion, and Melissa will speak about the state of point-of-care ultrasound in the country. Wednesday, December 4th in BCMM 206/208 (enter at 295 Congress Avenue) from 6:30-8pm; we will start with dinner at 6:30pm and the discussion will start at 7pm. Please RSVP by clicking this link by 5pm on Tuesday, December 3^rd for Wednesday’s event!
• NEW: Accepting Applications: Women's Infectious Diseases Global Scholars Program (WINGS) – Deadline Jan 31, 2025: https://www.womenglobalhealth.com/female-global-scholars-1
• Accepting Applications: Cornell’s Global Health Research Fellowship https://globalhealth.weill.cornell.edu/fellowship
• The recording from the Global Health Scholars Info Session on Thursday October 24th is on the Office of Global Health webpage! Application deadline: December 13^th!

New and Notable

• NEJM Nov 2024: Climate Change, Floods, and Human Health
• NEJM Nov 2024: Safety and Efficacy of Immunization with a Late-Liver-Stage Attenuated Malaria Parasite
• NEJM Nov 2024: Fight or Flight — Facing the Marburg Outbreak in Rwanda
• Lancet Nov 2024: Triumphs and threats: HIV in 2024

Upcoming Local Events: December

• Tuesday Dec 3^rd @ 1-2pm at 230 South Frontage Road: LGBTQ-affirmative mental health care – From theory to trials to community implementation and global disseminationby Yale’s John Pachankis PhD
• Wednesday Dec 4^th @ 11am-12pm at Winslow Auditorium 60 College Street and zoom: Dean's Speaker Series, Leaders in Public Health Leaders in Public Health: Dr. Abdul Shaikh, PhD, MHSc, Global Leader for Population Health for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is responsible for developing cloud native solutions and partner strategies in digital health, remote patient monitoring, machine learning and generative AI for clinical and public health.
• Wednesday Dec 4^th @ 3-4pm at 350 George Street or zoom: Investigating Tuberculosis Dynamics Using Surveillance Data and Statistical Modeling: Studies in Three High Burden Settings by Melanie Chitwood (EMD) PhD Candidate
• Wednesday Dec 4^th @ 6:30pm @ BCMM 206/208: Global Health Night Out: Decentralized Resilience: Medical Supply Delivery and PoCUS Development in Ukraine.
• Thursday Dec 5^th @ 12-1250pm at 60 College Street Rm 109: What is Global Health? By Rafael Perez-Escamilla, Professor of Public Health.
• Thursday Dec 5^th @ 7pm: GHEDP Op-Ed Writing Workshop, Part 1.
• Monday Dec 9^th @ 12-1pm at 60 College Street Rm 115: "Inequality & the Environment: Moving from Science to Action that Advances Climate Justice and Health Equity" by Lara Cushing PhD, UCLA
• Thursday December 12^th @2-330pm: Haitian Culture and Health Screening Considerations.

Online Trainings & Recordings of Past Events Available:

• Responding to Mpox: Voices from the Front Lines by Columbia University ICAP. Recording and slides available.
• Online, free, Health Across the Gender Spectrum: 2.25hrs/2.25 CME credits.
• Online recording of Center for Global Development: How Will AI Transform Work and Jobs in Developing Countries?
• 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