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Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for March 8, 2021

March 07, 2021

Greetings, all –

Wishing you all a very happy International Women’s Day! Please see below for two exciting events in honor of this day that will be held this afternoon/evening.

The CUGH Annual Meeting is here! The (free) Pre-Conference Satellite sessions continue over the course of the week (https://www.cugh2021.org/satellite-sessions) so be sure to take a look at the offerings. And then the Consortium of Universities for Global Health 12th Annual Meeting - Addressing Critical Gaps in Global Health and Development itself will start on Friday, March 12th and run through Sunday, March 14th. As a reminder, all Distinction Pathway residents can apply to use the supplemental $500/person funding to cover registration costs (in addition to the academic funds from the GME Ofice that all residents have access to). Yale is a member of CUGH and medical residents are considered to be “students” for the purposes of the conference, so the registration cost at this time is $210 per person. For more information, visit: https://www.cugh2021.org

New and Notable

  • Announcing the Department of Medicine’s 10th annual Global Health Day - Global Health Capacity Building at Yale – Past, Present and Future (Thursday, March 18th) and the associated Global Health Week activities. Please see the attached flyer for details about all of these events!
  • Read this important report from The Lancet on a truly global issue: “Medical oxygen crisis: a belated COVID-19 response”
  • Continuing with the theme of lung health, take a look at this comprehensive summary in The Lancet of global respiratory disease challenges: Improving lung health in low-income and middle-income countries: from challenges to solutions”
  • Check out this thought-provoking perspective piece from the NEJM that may have an impact on the way you counsel your patients in clinic about the COVID-19 vaccine, entitled, “An Uncertain Public – Encouraging Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccines”

Upcoming Local Events: March

  • Monday, March 8th @ 4:30-6pm: Yale Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women’s Rights presents, “Women and the Workforce – How a Pandemic Demands Systemic Change,” featuring Cecile Richards (former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and Planned Parenthood Action Fund). To register for the event, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dlX2OONMTYG-bYw1yGFKgw
  • Monday, March 8th @ 6:30pm: Partners in Health presents, “International Women’s Day 2021 – Women in Leadership: Achieving an Equal Future in a COVID-19 World”. For more information and to register, please visit: https://secure.pih.org/a/womenlead? utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=iwd2&utm_source=ea&ms=EM100&emci=2953799e-937f-eb11-85aa-00155d43c992&emdi=12720c4c-aa7f-eb11-85aa-00155d43c992&ceid=1363097 (To watch the session, you can also visit: https://www.facebook.com/partnersinhealth)
  • Tuesday, March 9th @ 8-9am: Yale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds presents, “The Cardiovascular Diseases of the Poorest Billion: Toward a Science of Integration,” featuring Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor of Medicine & Assistant Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School). Zoom password provided upon RSVP (please email kristin.piscitelli@yale.edu); the link for the event is - https://yale-hipaa-edu.zoom.us/j/944430330
  • Thursday, March 11th @ 2-3pm: Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds presents, “The Dynamics of Infectious Diseases Associated with Injection Drug Use in Lawrence and Lowell, Massachusetts,” featuring Gregg Gonzalves, PhD (Assistant Professor of Epidemiology [Microbial Diseases], Yale School of Public Health; Associate [Adjunct] Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership; Co-Director, Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency). To attend, please use the Zoom link listed here: https://zoom.us/j/93521629449?pwd=cEtDamFFazQwRFZZWFFJVGs0MjhoUT09
  • Tuesday, March 16th @ 12-1pm: Department of Internal Medicine’s annual (virtual) Global Health Poster Session, featuring global health scholarship from across the Yale health professions campus that has previously been presented at external conferences between April 2019 and March 2021. Join us for this hour of oral presentations and Q&A (moderated by GHEDP Co-Director, Dr. Sheela Shenoi), or view the posters and leave written comments for the authors anytime through Friday, March 19th. See the attached Global Health Day flyer for the link!
  • Wednesday, March 17th @ 12-1pm: Support your fellow GHEDP residents, Aidan Milner and Becky Osborn, as they present, “Reflections on a Local Global Health Elective.” See the attached Global Health Day flyer for the link!
  • Wednesday, March 17th @ 4-6pm EST: Yale Macmillan Center Council on African Studies presents, “Decolonizing the American University,” a conversation with Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Author and Professor of English & Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine). To learn more and to register, visit: https://bit.ly/2LmbcZy
  • Thursday, March 18th @ 8:30am-7:30pm: Department of Internal Medicine’s 10th annual Global Health Day – please see the attached flyer for the full schedule of the day!

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Additional Information

Wishing you a safe and healthy week!

Best,

Tracy

Submitted by Laura P Crawford on March 10, 2021

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