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

Greetings all,

• Monday, November 15^th at 12pm: join us for the second webinar in the Health Care of Afghan Refugees series - Supporting Adult and Child Mental Health. Please see the attached flyer for more details and registration instructions, or click on this link to register directly. If you missed the introductory webinar on October 18^th, you can view the recording here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agkk2s7yVYw Also, please save the date for our third webinar on Monday, December 6^th at 12pm – Health Care of Afghan Refugees: Emergency Care and Women’s Health.
• Monday, November 15^th at 7:30-8pm and Wednesday, November 17^th at 7:30-8pm: join us for Q&A sessions 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. Zoom links for these sessions will be sent out in a separate email!

Announcements

• Applications are now being accepted for the inaugural Yogesh Khanal Pilot Project Award! This opportunity provides $2500 for a mentored clinical research or medical education project over 12 months (see attached). The deadline for applications is November 15th, 11:59pm; see attached application form. Please contact Sheela.Shenoi@yale.edu with questions.
• 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 October 25, 2021: Prevention of surgical site infection in low-resource settings
• NEJM Nov 4th, 2021: Race, Genetic Ancestry, and Estimating Kidney Function in CKD
• BMJ October 2021: Accelerating climate action: the role of health professionals
• JAMA Nov 3rd, 2021: Collaboration With People With Lived Experience of Mental Illness to Reduce Stigma and Improve Primary Care Services: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial (Nepal)

Upcoming Local Events: November

• Tuesday, November 9th @ 6:30-8pm (Zoom): YSM Topics in Global Medicine and Health presents, “Non-communicable diseases: stroke and its impact in Zambia” featuring Morgan Prust (Assistant Professor of Neurology, YSM). To join, please email the course director at jeremy.schwartz@yale.edu.
• Wednesday, November 10^th @ 2-3:30pm (Zoom): YSM SEICHE Center for Health & Justice Seminar Series presents, “Police use of deadly force and racial disparities in sleep health,” featuring Atheendar Venkataramani, MD, PhD (Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania). For more information and to register, please visit: https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/genmed/event/seiche-centers-for-health-justice-seminar-series-policing-health-atheendar-venkataramani-md-phd/
• Wednesday, November 10^th @ 4:30-6pm (Zoom): Wesleyan University Engage and DataHaven present, “Empowering People to Create Thriving Communities Through Data,” featuring Mark Abraham (Executive Director, DataHaven). The session will focus on DataHaven’s model, their state-wide Community Wellbeing data, and will show participants how to access and utilize this data for their community engagement work. For more information and to register, please visit this site.
• Thursday, November 11th @ 12-1pm, 60 College Street: YSPH presents the Global Health Seminar: “Advocacy for Equitable Access to Vaccines”by Gregg Gonsalves (Associate Professor of Epidemiology, YSPH) Contact: anjuli.bodyk@yale.edu to access the lecture in real-time or to view the recording.
• Thursday, November 11^th @ 5-6:30pm (Zoom): YSM Program for Humanities in Medicine presents, “Not in My Backyard: A Roundtable Discussion on Community Resistance Against Methadone Clinics.” The session will feature three speakers: Dr. Samuel Kelton Roberts, Jr., Associate Professor of History and African-American Studies at Columbia University; Charlene Payne, State Advocate Medicine Supported Recovery, and President, Visions of Legacy; and Dr. Ayana Jordan, the Barbara Wilson Associate Professor of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. Please visit this link to register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_n7WvLfucQMalGLYgCFWeog
• Friday, November 12^th @ 5-6pm (Zoom): YSM Beaumont Medical Club presents, “Antivaccinationism Then and Now: Smallpox, Spanish Flu, and Covid-19,” featuring Frank Snowden, DPhil (YSM Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and of History of Medicine). For more information and to register for the session, please visit: https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/infdis/event/the-beaumont-medical-club-presents-antivaccinationismthen-and-now/
• Monday, November 15^th @ 12-1pm (Zoom): YSM Office of Global Health presents, “Health Care of Afghan Refugees – Part 2: Supporting Adult and Child Mental Health.” Please see the attached flyer for more details and registration instructions, or click on this link to register directly.

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