Greetings to all,
Next week is the annual Department of Internal Medicine Global Health Week (March 25-28th)! This year’s theme will be Climate Change, Global Migration, and Health – please see the attached flyer for more information (and below for relevant dates and links):
· Monday, March 25th 12-1pm: Noon Conference – Caring for Displaced Persons: The Fair Haven Community Health Center Response to Hurricane Maria (zoom)
· Monday March 25th 6:30pm: Dinner & Film Screening: Climate Refugees (please RSVP by 5pm today to facilitate dinner ordering!)
· Tuesday, March 26th 12-1pm: Global Health Poster Session (Zoom)
· Thursday, March 28th 8:30-9:30am: Medical Grand Rounds featuring Dr. Maya Prabhu “Climate Migration is happening: what does this mean for medicine?”
· Thursday March 28th 12-1pm: Faculty Panel (zoom)
· Thursday, March 28th 5:30-7:30pm: Refugee Health Conference featuring current GHEDP resident, Dr. Sneha Modi, and GHEDP alumnus, Dr. Amed Logroño (see attached flyer)
New and Notable
· Lancet Regional Health March 2024: Cost-effectiveness analysis of a multiplex lateral flow rapid diagnostic test for acute non-malarial febrile illness in rural Cambodia and Bangladesh
· Lancet Neurology March 2024: Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· Lancet Public Health March 2024: Inequalities in cancer: a major public health concern
· Lancet Public Health March 2024: Effects of education on adult mortality: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
· Lancet Global Health March 2024: Onchocerciasis elimination in sub-Saharan Africa requires alternative strategies
· Lancet Global Health March 2024: Global brain health—the time to act is now
- NEJM March 2024: Of Aspirin, Preeclampsia, and Racism
Upcoming Local Events: March
- Wednesday, March 20th @ 6:00pm: UCONN Global Health Event on Point of Care Ultrasound: Ophthalmologic POCUS with speaker Dr. Katie Rong. There will also be a Global Health in Practice update on Uganda. Please RSVP here.
- Thursday March 21st @ 830am at Fitkin Auditorium and zoom: Medical Grand Rounds: The Digital Transformation of Healthcare: Is This Our Hemingway Moment? By Dr. Robert Wachter
- Thursday March 21st @ 12-1pm: Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Weekly Research Conference: Addressing Barriers To Indigenous Health Equity From Representation To Action
- Wednesday March 27th @ 12pm (zoom): Rutgers Science Communication Workshop – SciComm x Community Engagement: Exploring Principles and Practices. More info and RSVP here.
- Wednesday May 15th @ 2pm: NIH’s Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology: Addressing Health Disparities in Diabetes: Intersection of Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities. by Dr. Egede Univ of Wisconsin. Watch the videocast here.
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
- 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