Greetings to all,
- February 7th @ 730-830pm via zoom: Global Health Advocacy Part 1: So you want to write an Op-Ed? Guidance from Alum Pranay Sinha. Join us: https://yale.zoom.us/j/99709218247?from=addon
New and Notable
· Lancet Jan 2024: The need for pragmatic, affordable, and practice-changing real-life clinical trials in oncology
- Lancet Global Health Feb 2024: Noma – Neglected No More?
- Lancet Global Health Feb 2024: Antimicrobial resistance and the great divide: inequity in priorities and agendas between the Global North and the Global South threatens global mitigation of antimicrobial resistance
Upcoming Local Events: February
· Thursday February 8th @ 330pm room 11701, 400 West Campus: The Yale School of Nursing presents: The Political Determinants of Health by Daniel Dawes JD, SVP Executive Director Global Public Health, Institute for Public Health.
- Thursday February 8th @ 1230pm: Multilevel Factors Contributing to Health Inequity in Pediatric Populations by Idia Binitie Thurston, Ph.D., Northeastern University. RSVP here.
- Thursday, February 15th @12-1pm: Leaders in Public Health: Fireside Chat with YSPH Dean Megan Ranney with Ashwin Vasan, 44th Commissioner of Health, City of New York. Register for zoom link here.
- Sunday Feb 25th @12-3pm: Nicholas Dawidoff, author of The Other Side of Prospect (book club event 2/1/24) will be giving a talk with Q&A and then moderating a really interesting panel with New Haven Police and others. In person and on zoom. Click on this link for more information and to RSVP for this talk.
Past Trainings & Recordings Available:
- NEW: 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
- Join the Good Society Forum: Launched in April 2020 by Emma Sky (Director, Yale World Fellows) and Nizam Uddin (Senior Head of Mosaic and Community Integration, The Prince’s Trust, and 2019 Yale World Fellow), the twice-weekly GSF Webinars digitally connect change-makers around the world, engage them on ideas about a specific challenge of the day, and inspire action to build the good society. To subscribe to the GSF mailing list, visit - https://mailchi.mp/5922abe55ef6/joingoodsocietyforum
- 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