Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for September 15, 2020

Greetings, all –

First off, Sheela and I are thrilled to welcome four new residents into the GHEDP: Alex Bajaj (Trad), Tim DeVita (YPC-HIV TT), Mariah Evarts (YPC), and Natalle Yu (Med-Peds). If you see them on the wards, please be sure to say hello!

In honor of today’s global health milestone - the first ever fully remote UN General Assembly meeting - I encourage you to take a look at the attached one-page Lancet editorial, entitled, Global collaboration for health: rhetoric vs reality.

ERROR CORRECTION: please note that the first Global Health Night Out of the year will be held on Monday, September 21^st from 7-8pm - see below for more information, and watch your email for the full details!

New and Notable

• Check out the Race and Racism in Health Care webpage (https://library.medicine.yale.edu/race-and-racism-medicine) - a new resource from the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library which brings together resources for the purpose of educating and raising awareness on this important topic.
• Read the attached NEJM Perspective piece, entitled: The Climate Crisis and COVID-19 - A Major Threat to the Pandemic Response.
• Please save the date for the 2020-2021 (Virtual) GHEDP Welcome Meeting: Thursday, October 1^st from 7-8pm. More info to come soon!

Upcoming Local Events: September

• Tuesday, September 15^th@ 9-10:30am: The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Global Health presents, Global Health Education during the Pandemic: Tips for trainees & educators on optimizing global health education from their homes. This webinar, will feature experts from the University of Wisconsin, University of California San Francisco, Boston Children’s Hospital, ATLAS International, Mbale Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, and the AAP. The webinar, designed for global health trainees and educators, will answer important questions on how to optimize global health training and educational partnerships during the pandemic. To register, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/AAPGlobalCOVID8 (password: 1234)
• Tuesday, September 15th @ 6:30-8pm: Join for the first session of the Fall course, Topics in Global Medicine and Health: Orientation, Historical Overview, and Evolution of Global Health by Dr. Jeremy Schwartz. Please see the attached syllabus for the full list of sessions, and feel free to email the course director (Dr. Schwartz) for the Zoom link if you are not already signed up: jeremy.schwartz@yale.edu.
• Wednesday, September 16^th @ 12-1pm: Yale Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds presents, Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in an Age of Antiscience by Peter Jay Hotez, MD, PhD (Dean, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine). To view the talk, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/827974486?pwd=TmdJZU1ac0pPb3R4NnpBTndYWnZpQT09
• Wednesday, September 16^th @ 2-3 pm: The Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine presents, Racial Disparities in Sleep Health: Epidemiology, Potential Mechanisms, and Implications, by Lauren Hale, PhD (Professor of Family Population and Preventive Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University). Dr. Hale's talk will address patterns of disparities in sleep health and the implications for broader health and wellbeing disparities. Attendees will learn about the social patterning of sleep health by race/ethnicity among both adults and children, possible mechanisms for these disparities, and their implications for health, well-being, and policy. To attend the talk, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/93569756530
• Wednesday, September 16^th @ 5-6:30pm: YSM Program for Biomedical Ethics and Yale Pediatric Ethics Program present: The Colors of COVID-19 - Addressing Health Disparities During a Global Pandemic by Stephen B. Thomas, PhD (Professor, Health Policy & Management; Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity; PI, NIH-NIMHD Center of Excellence on Race, Ethnicity & Health Disparities Research School of Public Health, University of Maryland). Dr. Thomas is one of the nation’s leading scholars on community engaged research designed to reduce and ultimately eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities. His research with collaborator Dr. Sandra Quinn, is recognized as one of the scholarly contributions leading the 1997 Presidential Apology for the Syphilis Study Done at Tuskegee. Dr. Thomas believes that building bridges of TRUST are essential to creating healthy communities. In his talk he will discuss how the Belmont Principle of Justice can help illuminate the implications for recruitment and retention of Black human subjects in COVID-19 clinical trials research. To register for the talk, please visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vicNH9qHROWoizDX5PBrjQ
• Thursday, September 17^th @ 12-1pm: Global Health Seminar: Private Sector Engagement in Global Health by Sarah Christie (Program Manager, Yale Global Health Leadership Institute). Please see the attached syllabus for the full list of sessions, and feel free to email the course administrator for the Zoom link if you are not already signed up: anjuli.bodyk@yale.edu
• Monday, September 21^st @ 11:30am-1pm: The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale University (CIRA) presents, A Theory-informed Education and Counseling Intervention for HIV-TB Treatment Adherence (TEACH) in South Africa and Uganda. Join to hear this presentation by Drs. Luke Davis and Sheela Shenoi on their CIRA-funded pilot project, and listen to the discussion that will follow, focusing on next steps toward developing larger grant proposals. For more information, please visit:https://medicine.yale.edu/yigh/event/68278/ ; to attend the talk, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/j/91826618991
• Monday, September 21^st @ 7-8pm: Global Health Night Out: Impact of COVID-19 in Latin America, and will be co-facilitated by Drs. Amed Logroño (IM Global Health Capacity Building Fellow, GHEDP ’20) and Beatriz Sanchez (Global Health and International Emergency Medicine Fellow). More details to come!

Save the Date

• September 17-19, 2020 - North American Refugee Health Conference - An Online Learning Experience. For more information, visit: http://refugeesociety.org/north-american-refugee-health-conference
• October 11, 2020 - The HAVEN (virtual) 5K. Proceeds from this annual run go to support HAVEN Free Clinic, the Yale student-run, interdisciplinary, free primary care clinic. For more information and to register, visit: https://www.wizathon.com/anda5k/?id=4748 (Bonus: if you register by September 18^th, you’ll receive your T-shirt and mask by the day of the event!)
• 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