Greetings to all,

As a reminder: if you have colleagues who are interested in learning more about the GHEDP, please feel free to share the following links:

• Information about the Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway: https://medicine.yale.edu/intmed/residency/pathways/equity/
• Recordings of all of the presentations: https://yale.app.box.com/s/tjx6h4zroqrrgdy63vz9ln62zzf4kh5a (The GHEDP section starts at 16:05 and ends at 22:45.)
• Applications for new Distinction members are due September 15^th.

Announcements:

• University of Alabama Gorgas Global Health Fellowship
• Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholars Fellowship – due Nov 1

New and Notable

· Lancet Global Health Sept 2022 Payment of community health workers

· NEJM Sept 2022 Closing the Public Health Gap

· BMC Global Health Sept 2022: Digital Innovations for Community and Primary Health in India

· BMJ Global Health September 2022: The neglect of culture in global health research and practice.

Upcoming Local Events: September/October

• Monday September 19^th @ 430-6pm (in person - 47 College Street, Room 106B - and on ZOOM): Yale Institute for Global Health presents: Preparing for Future Pandemics and Other Biological Catastrophes
• Tuesday September 20^th @ 9-10am: Social Determinants of Health and HIV Among Youth in High- and Low-Resource Settings: Lessons Learned from Multi-Country Research
• Thursday September 22^nd @ 12pm zoom link TBD: The inaugural Dr. Inginia Genao Lecture in DEI will be given by Dr. Nancy Krieger, a renowned social epidemiologist and social justice advocate from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
• Thursday September 22^nd 5-630pm: The History and Future of Harm Reduction: Maia Szalavitz, author of Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction; Contributing Opinion Writer, New York Timesand Kimberly Sue, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Internal Medicine), Yale School of Medicine; Medical Director, National Harm Reduction Coalition, and Moderator: Randi Hutter Epstein, MD, MPH, Writer in Residence, Yale University School of Medicine. Register here.
• Wednesday September 28^th @ 430pm: Steven Thrasher discusses his book “The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide”.
• Thursday, September 29: 5:30-7:00 pm TAC Auditorium: New Haven Voices Session 2: Growing and Becoming (focus on health care, education, and the environment). Register here.
• Thursday, October 6^th @ 5-630pm: Mistrust and Misinformation in Medicine—Causes and Consequences Hosted jointly by the Program for Biomedical Ethics and the Yale Pediatric Ethics Program. Register here. Dhruv Khullar, MD, MPP, Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Economics, Weill Cornell Medical College; Contributor, The New Yorker; Director of Policy Dissemination, Physicians Foundation Center for Physician Practice and Leadership
• Friday October 14^th @ 12pm: Paul's Legacy and PIH's Path Forward Webinar Series: Centering the Rights of Women, Children, and Adolescents. Register here.

Additional Information:

• 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

• To view prior seminars from the Yale Macmillan Center Program on Refugees, Forced Displacement & Humanitarian Responses, please visit/subscribe to the PRFDHR YouTube channel
• 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

Best,

Tracy and Sheela

Co-Directors, Yale Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway