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

Greetings all,

• Wednesday, November 17^th at 7:30-8pm: join us for a Q&A session about applying for the Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholars Program for the 2022-23 academic year! Available rotations include our international collaboration sites in Rwanda, South Africa, and Uganda, as well as our domestic collaboration sites in Arizona (Navajo Nation/Indian Health Service) and rural Tennessee. For more information about the sites and the application process, visit the Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholars application page and take a look at the video at the bottom to hear more about the different sites from our faculty Site Directors and from returned Scholars. Please reach out to Laura Crawford (laura.crawford@yale.edu) if you need the Zoom link.
• Monday, December 6^th at 12pm: save the date for the third webinar in the Health Care of Afghan Refugees series – Emergency Care and Women’s Health. Registration information will be coming soon. If you missed the introductory webinar on October 18^th or the webinar on Adult and Child Mental Health on November 15^th, you can view the recordings here: https://medicine.yale.edu/psychiatry/refugee/webinars/

Announcements

• Announcing the CUGH Reflections in Global Health Essay Contest (deadline November 29^th). Reflection is a powerful tool in global health education and practice. All current undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate trainees as well as GH practitioners are invited to submit essays to reflect upon the meaning and lessons learned from global health experiences. These may be in a research, educational, clinical, or service capacity. The impacts of these experiences on professional development and personal growth are revealed in new partnerships, insights into cross-cultural or ethical issues and ideas for change. For more information, visit: https://www.cugh2022.org/reflectionessays
• The application platform is now open for the Department of Internal Medicine’s Cross-Distinction Resident Academic Fund! Through this fund, residents will have the opportunity to apply for awards of up to $500 per year. This money is intended to cover costs associated with presenting your Distinction Pathway-related work at a local, regional, national, or international conference, or other academic activities related to your participation in the Distinction Pathway. All Distinction Pathway residents are encouraged to apply, however, preference will be given to PGY-3s and PGY-4s, as well as (in the future) residents who have not previously received an award from this fund. For more details, please see the November 1st email from Brett Marks. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis - https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7NEkKKQS5XWEWF0

New and Notable

· Lancet November 12, 2021: World Diabetes Day 2021: a time of reckoning

· Lancet November 13, 2021: A century past the discovery of insulin: global progress and challenges for type 1 diabetes among children and adolescents in low-income and middle-income countries

· Lancet Global Health November 2021: Traditional healer-delivered point-of-care HIV testing versus referral to clinical facilities for adults of unknown serostatus in rural Uganda: a mixed-methods, cluster-randomised trial.

· NEJM Nov 11^th 2021: Pollution and the Heart

· JAMA Nov 9, 2021: Little Acts and Big Differences: Perspectives on Civility in Medicine

Upcoming Local Events: November

• Wednesday November 17^th @ 10am EST (zoom) Collaboration Across Continents: Cancer Research and Training in East Africa by Edus H. Warren, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, hosted by ICAP. Register here.
• Thursday, November 18th @ 12-1pm, 60 College Street: YSPH presents the Global Health Seminar: “Child Health and Wellbeing During a Pandemic” by Joanna Lai, Health Specialist, Maternal, Newborn, Adolescent Health Unit, UNICEF. Contact: anjuli.bodyk@yale.edu to access the lecture in real-time or to view the recording.
• Thursday, November 18^th @ 12-1pm (Zoom): Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health presents, “Beyond COP26: Next Steps in the Fight Against Climate Change.” To learn more about the event and to register, please visit: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/event/beyond-cop26-next-steps-in-the-fight-against-climate-change/

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 and Sheela

Co-Directors, Yale Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway