Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for March 15, 2021

Greetings, all –

Welcome to Global Health Week in the Department of Internal Medicine! There are a lot of exciting activities planned for this week, and I hope you will take advantage of them. Importantly, several of the activities are taking the place of noon conferences for everyone in the Department – we have tried to eliminate as many barriers to participation as possible! Please see the attached flyers for details about the week’s events.

New and Notable

• Read this Science blog piece about the proposed role of dormant virus in the current Ebola outbreak in Guinea: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/03/new-ebola-outbreak-likely-sparked-person-infected-5-years-ago
• Announcing the creation of the Society for Asylum Medicine! This organization is co-founded by YSM faculty member, Katherine McKenzie, MD (Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine). Please check out their website for more information: https://asylummedicine.com
• Check out the attached Lancet piece which makes excellent arguments for the need to focus on global COVID vaccine access, “SARS-CoV-2 variants and ending the COVID-19 pandemic” …
• And then take a look at the attached Lancet health policy brief entitled, “Challenges in ensuring global access to COVID-19 vaccines: production, affordability, allocation, and deployment”

Upcoming Local Events: March

• Monday, March 15^th @ 7-8:15pm: YSPH presents, “Our Best Shot: COVID-19 Vaccine Science, Advocacy, and Action.” This panel discussion will feature a panel of Yale faculty experts. For more information and to register, please visit: https://medicine.yale.edu/event/72461/
• Tuesday, March 16^th @ 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 19^th. To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/91509667640?pwd=TllGRDh5ZEw1WEp0MTM4bzFicXRFQT09
• Tuesday, March 16^th @ 4:30-5:45pm: Yale Macmillan Center Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement, and Humanitarian Responses presents, “Refugee-led Responses to Overlapping Precarity: Views from North Lebanon,” featuring Professor Elena Fiddian-Qaasmiyeh (Professor in Migration and Refugee Studies, Department of Geography, University College London; Co-Director, UCL-Migration Research Unit). For more information and to register, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrdeCuqT0rHtN3gP_-7vYwhpXpZ9cxmCKo
• Wednesday, March 17^th @ 11am-12pm: SEICHE Center for Health & Justice Hosts, "Engaging the Correctional Ecosystem in COVID-19 Vaccination: Strategies to Address Uptake in Incarcerated People and Correctional Staff." For more information and to register, please visit: https://medicine.yale.edu/event/72370/
• Wednesday, March 17^th @ 12-1pm: Support your fellow GHEDP residents, Aidan Milner, MD and Becky Osborn, MD, as they present, “Reflections on a Local Global Health Elective.” To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/94075927254
• Wednesday, March 17^th @ 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 18^th @ 8:30-9:30am: Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds presents, “Building Human Resources for Health: A Personal Journey,” by Asghar Rastegar, MD (Professor Emeritus of Medicine; Founding Director, Office of Global Health; and Senior Research Scientist, YSM Department of Internal Medicine). To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/94896766303?pwd=UWFrcG9GNXMvcWZ3YU4ycUc5VEVSdz09
• Thursday, March 18^th @ 12:15-1:15pm: Yale Office of Global Health presents, “Panel Discussion: The Future of Global Health Capacity Building at Yale.” Please see the attached Global Health Day flyer for more information. To attend this session, please preregister at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CwUxtn36S7mUaqJbH7L31A
• Thursday, March 18^th @ 6-7:30pm: Yale Office of Global Health presents, “5^th Annual Refugee Health Education Conference – Physical and Mental Health of Refugees: COVID Update.” Please see the attached flyer for more details. To attend this session, please preregister at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K6zUWaSYQKOg2NxkLdJK9g
• Wednesday, March 24^th @ 12-1pm: Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds presents, “The Africa CDC and Its Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” To log in with your NetID, please visit: https://yale.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cu2wo1QRaFVSgbX
• Wednesday, March 24^th @ 5-6:30pm: Yale Program for Biomedical Ethics presents, “How Racism Shapes Undergraduate Medical Education: The Ethical Case for Structural Change,” featuring Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, MS (Yale School of Medicine, MS4). To register, please visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qixuIKyhQ7-WlM8UVqUhYw

Save the Date

• April 8-11, 2021 - Unite for Sight 18^th Annual Global Health & Innovation Conference. For more information, visit: https://www.uniteforsight.org/conference/

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