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Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for March 29, 2021

March 30, 2021

Greetings, all –

Announcing the third Global Health Night Out event of the year: Thursday, April 1st from 6:45-8:15pm! The session is entitled, “Addiction Medicine & Global Health,” and will feature faculty expert Rick Altice, MD (Professor of Medicine [Infectious Diseases] and Epidemiology [Microbial Diseases], Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Academic Icon Professor of Medicine, University of Malaya - Centre of Excellence for Research in AIDS [CERiA]) and discussion leaders Bea Sánchez-Rodriguez, MD (Global Health Fellow - Emergency Medicine) and Amed Logroño, MD (Global Health Capacity Building Fellow - Internal Medicine). Watch your email for the Zoom link and background readings!

New and Notable

  • The Chinle Comprehensive Health Care Facility (Chinle, AZ) is announcing that they are officially reopening to medical student and resident rotations starting July 2021. The CCHCF is located within the Navajo Nation and is a 60-bed hospital with a 24-hour Emergency Room and robust outpatient primary care clinic, serving a population of roughly 40,000 individuals on the Colorado Plateau. Elective spots are limited and assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis; trainees are required to commit to a minimum rotation length of 4 weeks. For more information about the site, you can review a brief presentation (https://www.ihs.gov/sites/navajo/themes/responsive2017/display_objects/documents/ChinleSURecruitmentPresentation.pdf) and contact tracy.rabin@yale.edu for more information about the opportunity.
  • The Yale Medical Education Day Poster Abstract deadline is April 9th– Med Ed Day will be held on June 3rd and will include a keynote address by Deputy Dean for Education, Jessica Illuzzi, MD, MS, virtual workshops and oral presentations by Yale educators. The poster session will be online from June 3 to 11, 2021. For more information about submitting an abstract, please visit: https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/30130/
  • Take a look at the attached brief piece in The Lancet which provides a unique perspective on how to think about the anti-vaccination movement: “COVID-19, Cults, and the Anti-Vax Movement”
  • Read this NEJM piece from a member of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Washington, focused on concrete advice for clinicians who want to respond to the increasing violence against members of the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, by making clinical spaces feel like safer spaces: “Combating Anti-Asian Sentiment – A Practical Guide for Clinicians”
  • Review this thought-provoking piece from Globalization and Health focused on critically examining the human impact on the planet: “The critical intersection of environmental and social justice: a commentary.”

Upcoming Local Events: March/April

  • Tuesday, March 30th @ 12-1pm: Emory Global Health Institute presents, “Decolonizing Global Health Series: Decolonizing Global Health Education,” the fourth webinar in a 5-part series. For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.globalhealth.emory.edu/programs/forum-speaker-series.html
  • Tuesday, March 30th @ 4-5pm: Yale Institute for Global Health presents, “Planet, People, and Prosperity: A Conversation with Achim Steiner, Administrator, UN Development Program.” For more information and to register, please visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W75WeYObSDmynTGOp47mhg
  • Wednesday, March 31st @ 12-1pm: The SEICHE Center for Health and Justice presents, “The Criminal Legal System & Health Inequities: Research for Action,” featuring Jaquelyn Jahn, PhD, MPH(Postdoctoral Scholar, City University of New York). For more information and to register, please visit: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W75WeYObSDmynTGOp47mhg
  • Thursday, April 1st @ 8:30-9:30am: Department of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds presents, “Implications of Neglecting the Obesity Pandemic: COVID and Rising Inequality,” by Sameer Khan, MD (Advocacy and Community Engagement Chief Resident, Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program). To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/94896766303?pwd=UWFrcG9GNXMvcWZ3YU4ycUc5VEVSdz09
  • Thursday, April 1st @ 12-1pm: YSPH Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science and YSM Global Mental Health Program present, “Reimagining Mental Health Care in the US: Lessons from the Global South,” featuring Vikram Patel, MBBS, PhD (Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School). For more information, please visit: https://image.message.yale.edu/lib/fe4215707564057e761475/m/2/4e74b1d8-1f2e-4958-9eb1-040de727a33d.pdf
  • Thursday, April 1st @ 1:30-3:00pm: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS presents, “Interventions to Address HIV-Related Intersectional Stigma,” featuring Skyler Jackson, PhD (Associate Research Scientist, YSPH); Jasmine Abrams, PhD (Assistant Professor, Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health); Devin English, PhD (Assistant Professor, Department of Urban-Global Public Health, Rutgers School of Public Health); Carlos E. Rodriguez-Diaz, PhD, MPHE, MCHES (Associate Professor, Department of Prevention and Community Health, Miliken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University). To register for the Zoom link, please visit: https://bit.ly/38uR002
  • Thursday, April 1st @ 6:45-8:15pm: Yale Office of Global Health Education presents, “Global Health Night Out: Addiction Medicine & Global Health.” Watch your email for the Zoom link and readings!
  • Monday, April 5th @ 4:30-5:30pm: Department of the History of Medicine presents, “The Technological Fix: Presence, Absences, and the Limits of Telemedicine,” featuring Jeremy Greene, PhD(William H. Welch Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine). This talk traces the history of telemedicine back to its origins in demonstration projects in the 1960s and 1970s that promised to use this technology to erase racial, ethnic, economic, and geographic disparities in access to medical care. The successes and failures of these programs shed light on why we continue to seek technological solutions for the structural failings of the American healthcare system, even as it far remains from clear whether these technologies erase or further entrench existing health disparities. To receive the link, please RSVP to: patricia.brunetto@yale.edu
  • Tuesday, April 6th @ 3-4pm: SGIM Ethics Committee presents, “How Do We Ethically Distribute Vaccines in a Structurally Inequitable World?,” featuring Monica Peek, MD, MPH, MSc, FACP(Director of Research at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics; Associate Professor of General Medicine; University of Chicago, Division of the Biological Sciences The Pritzker School of Medicine); Alicia Fernandez, MD (Founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence; Professor of Medicine at UCSF); Michelle Cantu, MPH (Director for Infectious Disease and Immunization at the National Association of County and City Health Officials); and moderated by Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH (Chair of SGIM's Ethics Committee, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine). To register, please visit https://sgim.users.membersuite.com/auth/portal-login.
  • Wednesday, April 7th @ 12-1pm: Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics presents, “Health Effects of Climate Change: An Overview for Clinicians and Policymakers.” Co-sponsored with the University of Haifa, UNESCO Chair in Bioethics, and the Yale International Policy Forum. To register, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DA_C37I3TdG82DuAktOf8A

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Additional Information

Wishing you a safe and healthy week!

Best,

Tracy

Submitted by Laura P Crawford on March 30, 2021

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