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

Greetings to all,

Thank you to all who attended the events of the Yale School of Medicine Office of Global Health Global Health Week last week! Several of the events were recorded and will be posted in the coming weeks on the Office of Global Health website.

Please note the Yale Institute for Global Health: Global Health Symposium will take place this Friday, April 6^th at Yale School of Public Health (60 College Street - behind the medical library), in room 109. The Symposium Agenda is here.

New and Notable

· Lancet Global Health April 2024: The gout epidemic in French Polynesia: a modelling study of data from the Ma’i u’u epidemiological survey

· Lancet Planetary Health April 2024: Ambient heat and acute kidney injury: case-crossover analysis of 1 354 675 automated e-alert episodes linked to high-resolution climate data

· Lancet Public Health April 2024: Mental and physical health morbidity of people in prison: an umbrella overview

· NEJM Feb 2024: Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Carotid Plaque

Upcoming Local Events: April

· Tuesday, April 2^nd @ 4-5pm Hope 110: Humanitarian Ground Rounds “Health Equity in a Time of War: A View from the Ground” by Dr. Guy Shalev PhD - Dr. Lina Qassem-Hassan from Physician for Human Rights. Register here.· Tuesday, April 2^nd @ 7-9pm at 204 York Street, Gryphon’s Pub: Global Health on Tap: “ Volunteerism & Global Health: Standards, Ethics Challenges, Pitfalls & Lessons Learned over past 36 Years” featuring the Global Smile Program. Brief presentations will be followed by Q&A and networking happy hour. Come and join the discussion over food and drinks. All are welcome! This event is recurring at Gryphons Yale Grad Pub. Guests must present valid government-issued ID at the door. Make sure to mention you are joining the party at the door so that you don't get charged a cover fee. See you there!· Wednesday, April 3^rd @ 12-1pm YSPH 60 College Street, Winslow Auditorium: FRANK BLACK SEMINAR: Dr. Wafaie Fawzi, Harvard, "Nutrition and Global Health Systems: Integrated Solutions to Advance Maternal-Child Health and Infectious Disease Control"· Wednesday, April 3^rd @ 5-630pm at Cohen Auditorium and on zoom: Program for Biomedical Ethics and Yale Pediatric Ethics talk: Bioethics & Racism with Carlo Botrugno, PhD.· Thursday, April 4^th @10am (will be recorded): The Ethics of Conducting Health Research in Humanitarian Settings: Principles, Practice, and Reflections From the Field. Zoom link here.

• Thursday, April 4^th @ 12-1pm TAC 447 or zoom: Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Weekly Research Conference: Equitably Improving Patient-Centered Outcomes After Critical Illness
• Thursday, April 4^th @ 12-1pm YSPH Winslow Auditorium or zoom: Leaders in Public Health: Former Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II
• Thursday, April 5^th @ 3-4pm 135 College Street, Suite 200: A Conversation with Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FRSC, Inaugural Chair, Department of Global and Public Health, McGill School of Population and Global Health, McGill University
• Friday, April 6th @ 1pm, YSPH 60 College Street, Rm 109: Professor Madhukar Pai, “Building Equity in Global Health: The Role for Global North Actors”.
• Wednesday, May 15^th @ 2pm: NIH’s Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology: Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes: Intersection of Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities by Dr. Egede Univ of Wisconsin. Watch the videocast here.

Past Trainings & Recordings Available:

• 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

Co-Directors, Yale Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway