Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for January 1, 2024

Greetings to all,

Save the Date:

• Feb 1^st: GHEDP Book Club: The Other Side of Prospect by Nicholas Dawidoff. FYI the New Haven Public Library has 17 copies available and if you're having issues getting access let us know. This is an outstanding work that explores inequality, race, and class in the place that we call home.

Location/Time:TBD

• February 6^th and February 27^th @ 730-830pm: So you want to write an Op-Ed? Guidance from Alum Pranay Sinha. Location: TBD

New and Notable

· Lancet Dec 2023: Long-term mortality burden trends attributed to black carbon and PM_2·5 from wildfire emissions across the continental USA from 2000 to 2020: a deep learning modelling study

· Lancet Jan 2024: Chronic non-communicable diseases in sub-Saharan Africa

· NEJM Jan 2024: Health Care on the Edge — Challenges of Refugee Medicine

· NEJM Jan 2024: Indigenous Americans — The Journal’s Historical “Indian Problem”

Upcoming Local Events: January

• Tuesday Jan 9^th @ 12-6pm at Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT 06106: “Moving Beyond Implications: Research into Policy”. Details here.
• Thursday Jan 18th @ 830am at Fitkin or zoom: Medical Grand Rounds: “Healing the Hidden Wounds: Tackling and Confronting Bias in Medical Training” by Dr. Ramya Kaushik.
• Friday Jan 19^th @ 12-1pm in person at Winslow Audit 60 College Street (RSVP for lunch) at YSPH or zoom: Leaders in Public Health, Dean’s Speaker Series: "Disruptive Collaboration: A novel approach for massive-scale collaboration in healthcare" by Carter Dredge, Senior Vice President & Lead Futurist, SSM Health.
• Wed Jan 25^th @ 1230pm virtual: Effects of Colonialism, Slavery, and War on Medicine by Dr. Jim Downs. Webcast here.

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