Greetings to all,
If you missed the info session for the 2024-2025 Global Health Scholars Program, the recording of the Zoom meeting is posted on the Program website: https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/education/residency/specializations/global-health-scholars-program/apply/. As a reminder, the deadline is December 15th and applications require two letters of recommendation, so don’t wait until the last minute!
New and Notable
· JAMA Nov 2023: Health Professionals and War in the Middle East
· Plos Global Public Health Nov 2023: Editors as allies: Our two-year experience at PLOS Global Public Health
· JAMA Nov 2023: Scalability and Sustainability of a Surgical Infection Prevention Program in Low-Income Environments
- JAMA Nov 2023: Time to Treat the Climate and Nature Crisis as One Indivisible Global Health Emergency
Upcoming Local Events: December
- Tuesday Dec 5th @ 230-345pm In-person at Luce Hall 203 (34 Hillhouse Ave) and via Zoom: PRFDHR Seminar: Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants by Yale’s Professor Sambanis.
- Thursday Dec 7th @ 12-1250pm at Winslow Auditorium, 60 College Street: Biological Embedding of Adversity by Barbara “Suzi” Ruhl, Senior Research Scientist, Yale Child Study Center and Kieran O’Donnell, Assistant Professor, Yale Child Study Center; Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.
· Wednesday Dec 13th @ 5-630pm on zoom and in person at Cohen Auditorium: The Program for Biomedical Ethics and the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program presents “Personalized Public Health in Africa: Balancing Disease, Privacy and Ancestry” by Dr. Steven Schiff, Department of Neurosurgery.
· Wednesday Dec 13th @ 6pm at UCONN Academic Rotunda: Global Health Spotlight featuring Corbinian Wanner on the Guanin Health Clinic followed by a Water and Sanitation talk/hands on session with Dr. Robert Fuller and Dr. Natalie Moore. RSVP here.
· Thursday Dec 14th @ 10am on zoom: “Impact of Crises on Healthcare Workers: Current Evidence, Reflections, and Opportunities" featuring doctors and academics speaking about the crisis in Syria and Ukraine affecting health care workers. Register here.
Past Trainings & Recordings Available:
- 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