Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for August 24, 2020

Greetings, all –

The University is gearing up to start next week, and with the new school year, will come many more opportunities to engage with the broader global health community at Yale. Of note, the YSPH Global Health Seminar is moving to Zoom and a new timeslot this year (12-1pm) - the first session (What Is Global Health?) will be Thursday, September 3^rd, and I will be sending out the course syllabus as soon as it is finalized. Additionally, the YSM Topics in Global Medicine and Health elective will happen on Zoom on Tuesdays from 6:30-8pm - the first session (Historical Overview and Evolution of Global Health)will be Tuesday, September 15^th. Stay tuned for more on these courses next week!

New and Notable

• Read this poignant point of view piece in NEJM, reminding us to seek to know the person who carries the diagnoses, What is Liberty? Addressing Undeserved Suffering in Health Care
• Take a look at the thought-provoking editorial from JAMA Open, Responsibility of Medical Journals to Address Racism in Health Care, which speaks to the impact of journals on the norms of medical culture and provides concrete suggestions for action.

Upcoming Local Events: August

• Tuesday, August 25^th @ 12-1pm: The Minnesota Department of Health Refugee and International Health Program presents a Center of Excellence in Refugee Health Webinar - Addressing refugee and immigrant health in the face of persistent inequality and COVID-19: Perspectives of clinical experts. For more information and to register, please visit: https://bit.ly/2Cpvc93
• Thursday, August 27^th @ 8:30-9:30am: YSM Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: SAVA Syndemic in Women: How Sex, Drugs, and Violence Intersect with HIV Prevention” by Jaimie Meyers, MD, MS, FACP. To view the talk, visit: https://zoom.us/s/94896766303
• Thursday, August 27^th @ 1-2pm: Physicians for Human Rights presents, Policing and Public Health in the Age of COVID-19. The conversation will be moderated by Mary Bassett, MD, MPH (Director, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, former commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and former YSM DOM Global Health Day Keynote Speaker), and panelists will include - Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH (Chief Medical Officer, San Diego 211; Director of Equity and Justice, The California Children's Trust); Marc Krupanski, MA (Senior Program Officer, Open Society Foundations’ Public Health Program); and Teressa Raiford (Founder, Don’t Shoot Portland, a Black-led and community driven nonprofit in Portland, Oregon, that advocates for accountability to create social change in the spaces of racial justice and law enforcement accountability). For more information and to register, visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XMpQGbmMSoWvAzYxxCFHnw?utm_campaign=544894_FY21%20August%20COVID-19%20Webinar%20Invitation%208_08212020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Physicians%20for%20Human%20Rights&dm_i=4GV7,BOFY,1IF7EV,17Q04,1

Save the Date

• August 28-29, 2020 - Doctors for America Virtual National Leadership Conference. For more information and to register, visit: http://www.drsforamerica.org/take-action/get-people-covered
• October 13-15, 2020 - 4^th annual Women Leaders in Global Health (Virtual) Conference. For more information, visit: https://www.womenlifthealth.org/global-convenings
• November 15-19, 2020 - American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene Annual Meeting (#TropMed20). For more information, visit: https://www.astmh.org/annual-meeting/2020-annual-meeting
• November 19-20, 2020 - Global Health Council Summit 2020 - Pandemics, Politics, and Privilege: The Good, Bad, & Ugly U.S. Legacy in Global Health. For more information, visit: https://globalhealth.org/ghls/
• March 12-14, 2021 - Consortium of Universities for Global Health 12^th Annual Meeting - Addressing Critical Gaps in Global Health and Development. For more information, visit: https://www.cugh2021.org

Additional Information

• 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 (http://www.globalhealthhub.org/2017/03/06/global-health-journal-list/?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=6a34d04cc5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-6a34d04cc5-889431) - 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

Wishing you a safe and healthy week!

Best,

Tracy

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