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Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for October 26, 2020

October 28, 2020

Greetings, all –

Following up on Sheela’s email from last week, we’d like to officially announce the inaugural cycle of the Yogesh Khanal Pilot Project award. This opportunity provides $2500 for a mentored clinical research or medical education project over 12 months. This fund was established in memory of Dr. Yogesh Khanal (Trad ’15, Chief Resident ’16), to honor his devotion to social justice and eliminating health disparities, as well as his commitment to resident global health education. The deadline for applications is November 23rd @5pm. Kindly review the attached application.

Also, if you have not already done so, please reach out to me to set up your annual GHEDP mentorship meeting to make sure that you are on track with your requirements.

New and Notable

  • Take a look at the attached Lancet piece entitled, “U.S. Election 2020: Research and Health Institutions, “ about the impact of either a Trump or Biden victory on the NIH, CDC, and FDA.
  • Read the attached sobering Lancet commentary entitled, “Building a tuberculosis-free world while responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Upcoming Local Events: October

  • Wednesday, October 28th @ 12-1pm: Pediatrics Grand Rounds presents, “Rationing of Care and Equity,” by John Hughes, MD (Professor of Medicine [General Medicine]; Associate Director, Program for Biomedical Ethics). To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/827974486?pwd=TmdJZU1ac0pPb3R4NnpBTndYWnZpQT09
  • Wednesday, October 28th @ 3-4pm: Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds presents, “The Public Health Response to COVID-19 in Connecticut: What We’ve Learned So Far,” featuring Carrier A. Redlich, MD, MPH (Professor of Medicine [Occupational Medicine] and of Environmental Health Sciences; Director, Occupational and Environmental Health Program) and Luke Davis, MD (Associate Professor of Epidemiology [Microbial Diseases] and Associate Professor of Medicine [Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine]). To attend this webinar, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/94544698749
  • Wednesday, October 28th @ 5-6:30pm: Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics and the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program present, "Disparities in Maternal and Neonatal Outcomes by Race/Ethnicity," by Amaris McCord Keiser, MD (Interim Medical Director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Johns Hopkins Medical Center; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics). This talk comes in response to grim statistics indicating that, compared to their white peers, Black Hispanic, American Indian, and Alaska Native women are two to three times more likely to experience adverse maternal and neonatal pregnancy outcomes. Dr. McCord Keiser will explore the literature informing these statistics, its evolution over time, and the hypotheses developed to begin understanding why these disparities exist and persist. To register, please visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UOV5QSuRR_yGZp2RgnNgDg
  • Thursday, October 29th @ 11am-12pm: Yale New Haven Health Smilow Cancer Hospital and Yale Cancer Center present, "Moving Forward: The Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care in Sickle Cell Disease," by Cecelia Calhoun, MD, MPHS (Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease Transition Program at Washington University School of Medicine). To attend this webinar, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/97744477474?pwd=WW9yeUZzeVFOYjBZbkd6dHRrT1kxQT09
  • Thursday, October 29th @ 12-1pm: University of Maryland Graduate School Global Health Webinar Series presents, “Global Health Education: The Need for an Anti-Racist and Decolonizing Approach.” For more information and to register, please visit: https://umbforms.wufoo.com/forms/q1ybt5lq1l9vwxy/
  • Thursday, October 29 @ 12-1pm: YSPH Global Health Seminar presents, “Global Health Partnerships: The Liberia Workforce Program,” by Kristina Talbert-Slagle (Assistant Professor [General Internal Medicine]; Associate Director of Faculty Mentorship and Academic Programs, Yale Institute for Global Health). To join this session, please email the course coordinator (Ms. Anjuli Bodyk): anjuli.bodyk@yale.edu
  • Thursday, October 29th @ 2-3pm: Physicians for Human Rights presents, “Implications of U.S. Withdrawal from the World Health Organization,” featuring Roopa Dhatt, MD, MPA (Executive Director/Co-Founder, Women in Global Health) as the moderator; and panelists Georges C. Benjamin, MD (Executive Director, American Public Health Association) and Lawrence Gostin, JD(Director, WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law; Professor/Director/Founding Chair, O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law School; Professor of Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine; and Professor of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health). For more information and to register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ANg4EtT2QgKM6bkK3qV_fA?utm_campaign=576064_FY21%20October%20COVID-19%20Webinar%20Invitation%2015_10232020&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Physicians%20for%20Human%20Rights&dm_i=4GV7,CCHS,1IF7EV,1A8NN,1

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Wishing you a safe and healthy week!

Best,

Tracy

Submitted by Laura P Crawford on October 28, 2020

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