Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for May 3, 2021

Greetings, all –

What a wonderful surprise yesterday morning to hear a piece on NPR about community refugee resettlement, which features members of the New Haven community (and the work of IRIS!) – it’s a lovely3-minute listen: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/03/992993667/white-house-says-public-can-do-more-to-resettle-additional-refugees

And this is also a good opportunity to share that the website for our annual Refugee Health Education event (which was held on March 18^th) has been updated with the recordings of this year’s sessions – visit the site and click on Programme 2021: https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/refugee/

New and Notable

• Save the Date: Monday, May 10^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!
• Save the Date: Tuesday, May 11^th @ 5-6pm: 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

Upcoming Local Events: May

• Wednesday, May 5^th (9am-5pm) and Friday, May 7^th (1-5pm): UConn Health/Connecticut Children’s present the 2021 Global Health Symposium: Decolonizing Global Health. Please see the attached flyer for more information about the schedule and the registration link.
• Thursday, May 6^th @ 2-3pm: Physicians for Human Rights presents, “Title 42: The Misuse of Public Health to Restrict Asylum.” The conversation will be moderated by Amy Cohen, MD, a mental health and child welfare consultant to attorneys monitoring detention facilities, executive director of Every Last One, and a member of PHR’s Asylum Network. Featured panelists: Lee Gelernt, JD, MSc(American Civil Liberties Union - Deputy Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Project; Director of the Project’s Access to the Court’s Program); Hannah Janeway, MD (International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)); Cynthia Pompa (Program Officer, PHR asylum team); and Linda Rivas, JD (Executive director and managing attorney, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center). For more information and to register, please visit: https://phr-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AGA4iAOgRn-eIhg7P_OvNw?utm_campaign=662497_FY21%20May%20COVID-19%20Webinar%20Invitation%2027_05012021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Physicians%20for%20Human%20Rights&dm_i=4GV7,E76P,1IF7EV,1HI0Y,1

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