Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for May 10, 2021

Greetings, all –

Reminder to our graduating GHEDP residents: please be sure to log your requirements in MedHub by Friday, May 28^th so that they can be officially counted. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

For those who will be continuing on in the GHEDP next year: please respond to let me know if you are interested in taking on the role of the GHEDP Resident Leader, to assist with program planning in the coming year. (And feel free to reach out to Sumitha, who has been doing a great job in the role this year, if you have questions!)

New and Notable

• **TIME CHANGE** - Save the Date: Tuesday, May 11^th @ 11am-noon EST/5-6pm CET: YIGH Global Health Conversation Series presents, “Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.” During this conversation, Dr. Tedros will discuss the importance of ensuring equity in tackling the pandemic; the value and role of WHO in the world; and the importance of re-engaging the United States in the global response. For more information and to register, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sPzuhmOdRAmxPXK1cJsNDQ
• **DATE CHANGE** - Save the Date: Wednesday, May 19^th @ 7-8pm: Please join the third and final session in this year’s GHEDP Global Health Ethics series: we will be welcoming Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH (Associate Professor of Epidemiology [Microbial Diseases], Yale School of Public Health; Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health) to discuss ethical issues in global health research. More info to come!
• Take a look at the attached NEJM Perspective piece, entitled – Scaling Up COVID-19 Vaccination in Africa – Lessons from the HIV Pandemic – which serves as an important reminder of the tremendous body of knowledge that already exists about community engagement for public health.
• Read this attached thought-provoking Lancet article, entitled – The Climate Change-Homelessness Nexus – which shares thoughts about how to understand these interrelated problems at a systems level and think about cross-cutting interventions.
• In keeping with this year’s “Global Health Ethics” theme, check out this opinion piece in the NPR Goats and Soda blog, entitled – How COVID Reveals the Hypocrisy of The Global Health ‘Experience’: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/04/18/986820439/opinion-how-covid-reveals-the-hypocrisy-of-the-global-health-experience

Upcoming Local Events: May

• Tuesday, May 11th @ 11am-noon: YIGH Global Health Conversation Series presents, “Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.” During this conversation, Dr. Tedros will discuss the importance of ensuring equity in tackling the pandemic; the value and role of WHO in the world; and the importance of re-engaging the United States in the global response. For more information and to register, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sPzuhmOdRAmxPXK1cJsNDQ
• Wednesday, May 12^th @ 2-3pm: FASPE presents, “How We Repair It – The Role of Professionals in Creating an Antiracist America: Contested History in Conversation with Eric Foner.” Professor Eric Foner, prominent historian and scholar on the era of Reconstruction, will speak with Dr. Shannon Prince and Father Steven Bell about some of the most pressing issues of our time -- Are reparations necessary and feasible? Are there features of our government that are mistakenly regarded as core components of our democracy that have existed since our nation’s founding -- but in fact arose later to entrench white supremacy? How do historical precedents influence our justice system today? How can a more comprehensive knowledge of our past help us to move forward? For more information and to register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vCTOIPmOSUqNjxKNkBMrrA?utm_source=FASPE_newslettersignup&utm_campaign=66f4f093f3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_06_10_03_30_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15485411a8-66f4f093f3-430151924
• Wednesday, May 12^th @ 3-4pm: Arnhold Institute for Global Health presents, “Global Mental Health”, a conversation with Dr. Pamela Collins (Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences/Professor of Global Health, University of Washington; Executive Director, International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH) and UW Global Mental Health Program). For more information and to register, please visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fQyZOVtDSyCK1aT8KbqG6Q
• Thursday, May 13^th @ 1-2pm and 8-9pm: Doctors for America presents, “Advocacy Grand Rounds: Dismantling Racism in Your Daily Practice.” This event will feature Dr. Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH (Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President, American Medical Association) and Ms. Kelley Butler, MPH (4^th year medical student, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine).
  • To register for the 1pm event, please visit: https://www.drsforamerica.org/advocacy-grand-rounds-white-coats-boot-camp-may-13-2021-1-p-m-et/?link_id=2&can_id=4013b7d675353331e0f17f68daeab370&source=email-register-to-join-doctors-for-america-for-may-advocacy-grand-rounds-2&email_referrer=email_1163884&email_subject=dismantling-racism-in-your-daily-practice-our-next-event-in-the-advocacy-grand-rounds-series
  • To register for the 8pm event, please visit: https://www.drsforamerica.org/advocacy-grand-rounds-white-coats-boot-camp-may-13-2021-8-p-m-et/?link_id=4&can_id=4013b7d675353331e0f17f68daeab370&source=email-register-to-join-doctors-for-america-for-may-advocacy-grand-rounds-2&email_referrer=email_1163884&email_subject=dismantling-racism-in-your-daily-practice-our-next-event-in-the-advocacy-grand-rounds-series
• Friday, May 14^th @ 1-3pm: YSM Office of Health Equity Research/Equity and Research Innovation Center present, “Distinguished Visiting Lecture; Dr. Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD.” To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/92797278147
• Thursday, May 20^th @ 12-1pm: Yale MacMillan Center presents, “COVID-19 in Humanitarian Settings: Syria, Somalia, Yemen, and Morocco.” For more information about the panel and to register, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oh_uSXi1QF-rvKHalHUuQg

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 (https://guides.lib.wayne.edu/choosingajournal/globalhealth) - 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