Emergency Medicine Global Health Day

Yale Department of Emergency Medicine Global Health Day

9:00 am

Welcome by Pooja Agrawal, MD, MPH

9:05 am

"Decolonizing Global Health in the COVID-19 era"

Mariam Fofana, MD, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale School of Public Health

10:00 am

"The COVID-19 pandemic and mental health in low resource settings: Need for urgent action"

Shekhar Saxena, MD, Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

11:00 am

Global vaccine inequities and the response/fallout to the COVID-19 pandemic"

Catherine Kyobutungi, MD, Executive Director, African Population and Health Research Center

12:00 pm

"Palliative care in low- and middle- income country humanitarian settings"

Liz Grant, MA, PhD, FRSE, FRCPE, MFPH, Professor of Global Health and Development, University of Edinburgh

Farzana Khan, MA, MPH, MBBS, Executive Director & President, Fasiuddin Khan Research Foundation

1:00 pm

The shadow pandemic: COVID-19 and Gender-based violence in Sub- Saharan Africa

Charlotte Roy, MD, MPH, Department of Emergency Medicine, Loma Linda University

1:55 pm

Closing Remarks