Greetings to all,
- February 1st: GHEDP Book Club: The Other Side of Prospect by Nicholas Dawidoff. FYI: the New Haven Public Library has 17 copies available and if you're having issues getting access let us know. This is an outstanding work that explores inequality, race, and class in the place that we call home. The event will start at 7pm at Café Med. Please RSVP at your earliest convenience using this link!
- February 6th and February 27th @ 730-830pm: So you want to write an Op-Ed? Guidance from Trad/GHEDP Alum Pranay Sinha. Location: TBD. Please RSVP here by February 2nd at 5pm so we can determine whether this should be in person or virtual (and to get a headcount for food if we meet in person).
New and Notable
· Lancet Jan 2024: The need for pragmatic, affordable, and practice-changing real-life clinical trials in oncology
- Lancet Global Health Feb 2024: Noma – Neglected No More?
- Lancet Global Health Feb 2024: Antimicrobial resistance and the great divide: inequity in priorities and agendas between the Global North and the Global South threatens global mitigation of antimicrobial resistance
Upcoming Local Events: January/February
- Tuesday January 30th @ 12pm Sterling Law: Loper and Chevron in the Court: The Fate of Deference to Administrative and Scientific Expertise. Contact laurel.lyngklip@yale.edu for zoom.
- Tuesday January 30th @ 230pm Luce Hall 203: Integrating Pre-War Mental Health Data with Post-War Concerns: Comprehensive Approaches to Ukrainian Refugee Psychology, Sarah Eisenberg.
- Wednesday January 31st @ 12-1pm: Yale School of Public Health: Mary-Anne “Annie” Hartley, "Enabling AI in Extremely Low-Resource Settings—an example of automated antimicrobial resistance testing in humanitarian response.” In person only.
- Wednesday January 31st @7-9pm: Global Health On-TAP: Community Engagement and Community Participatory Research with a renowned panel of speakers, including speakers from Yale's Equity Research and Innovation Center, and Guest Speakers from Stanford University and the University of New Mexico. Brief presentations will followed by Q&A and networking happy hour. Come and join the discussion over food and drinks. All are welcome!! Guests must present valid government-issued ID at the door. Make sure to mention you are joining the party at the door so that you don't get charged a cover fee
- Thursday February 1st @ 830am: Medical Grand Rounds: Medical Grand Rounds “Telling Truer Stories: Going Beyond Bearing Moral Witness” by Dr. Rachel Badard. Member, New York City Board of Correction; Executive director of Families United for Freedom
- Thursday February 1st @5pm: Program for Humanities in Medicine John P. McGovern Lecture with Rachael Bedard. Internist, geriatrician and palliative care physician; Research fellow at the Institute to End Mass Incarceration. This is a hybrid talk: in-person in The Anlyan Center or online via Zoom. Register for the zoom link here.
- Sunday Feb 25th @12-3pm: Nicholas Dawidoff, author of The Other Side of Prospect (book club event 2/1/24) will be giving a talk with Q&A and then moderating a really interesting panel with New Haven Police and others. In person and on zoom. Click on this link for more information and to RSVP for this talk.
Past Trainings & Recordings Available:
- NEW: Online, free, self-paced course (~1.5hrs): Medicine for a Changing Planet: Case Studies.
- Online, free, self-paced course: History of Racism in Medicine by the Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education. The course takes 30 minutes to complete. To register, please visit the course website.
- ICAP/Columbia University: Improving Epidemic Readiness
- NIH: Culturally Competent Gender-related Norms Communications Training Resource
- UCONN INChip: Climate Change Impacts on Physical and Mental Health in the U.S. " by Dr. Amruta Nori-Sarma, Boston University School of Public Health
- Stanford Building a Culture of Health Equity Lecture Series: Health Equity Research in the LGBTQ+ Community
- ICAP/Columbia University: The Refugee Crisis: Addressing the Health of Displaced Populations.
- Stanford Building a Culture of Health Equity Lecture Series: Teaching LGBTQ + Health
- UCONN INChip: Stigma of Health Conditions in the Global Context: Applying the 'What Matters Most' Approach to MentalIllness, HIV and Cancer Stigma by Dr. Lawrence Yang, NYU
- ICAP/Columbia: Cancer Initiative Webinar Series — Informing Cancer Equity with Globally Diverse Data
Additional Information:
- The application platform is 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. 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