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Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for September 6, 2021

September 07, 2021

Greetings, all –

Please join fellow GHEDP resident, Dr. Mariah Evarts, and colleagues for our first Global Health Night Out of the academic year. The session will focus on Rheumatic Heart Disease and will take place on Thursday, September 9th (7-8:30pm). Click here to access the background readings, and use this Zoom link to participate: https://zoom.us/j/95875780315

Announcing two global health courses for the Fall semester:

  • YSM: Topics in Global Medicine and Health – starting Tuesday, September 14th! These weekly sessions are held on Tuesdays from 6:30-8pm throughout the Fall semester – please see the attached document for the schedule of talks, the majority of which will take place via Zoom. To sign up for the course, please register using this link by Monday, September 13th. We will be advertising the talks each week (see below for the first session); feel free to email the course director, Dr. Jeremy Schwartz (jeremy.schwartz@yale.edu) with any questions.
  • YSPH: Global Health Seminar - These weekly sessions are held on Thursdays from 12-1pm throughout the Fall semester; please see the attached document for the tentative schedule of talks. The sessions will be held in-person and simultaneously broadcast on Zoom (they may switch to being Zoom-based later in the semester). We will be advertising the talks each week (see below for the first session), so watch this space for more details about the seminar platform.

New and Notable

  • With respect to last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision to not block Texas Senate Bill 8 – please read this summary from the New York Times which reviews the nuances of this decision, as well as the potential impact on patients and abortion providers in Texas. To read the majority decision in full (first paragraph) and the four dissenting Supreme Court Justices’ opinions, visit: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/21a24_8759.pdf (To read the full text of the bill, visit: https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/id/2395961 )
  • Read the attached informative NEJM perspective on the need the leverage existing technology to better coordinate health-related disaster response: Data in Crisis – Rethinking Disaster Preparedness in the United States.
  • Abstract submissions are open for the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2022 Conference, "Healthy People, Healthy Planet, Social Justice" on April 1-3, 2022. The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) invites all persons wishing to report original research, innovative projects or novel programs related to global health to submit abstracts to be considered for presentation. All abstract presenters MUST register and pay the registration fee to have an accepted abstract included at the conference. Only one abstract per submitter/presenter will be accepted. Abstract deadline is September 23 – for more information, please visit: https://www.cugh2022.org/abstract-submissions

Upcoming Local Events: September

  • Tuesday, September 7th @ 12-1:15pm (Zoom): The Yale Global Mental Health Program presents, "Practical Aspects of Mental Health System Strengthening in Africa," featuring Julian Eaton (Mental Health Director for CBM Global; Assistant Professor, Centre for Global Mental Health at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine). To attend the session, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/99950479109
  • Thursday, September 9th @ 12-1pm (Zoom OR 60 College Street, Winslow Auditorium) YSPH Global Health Seminar presents, “Capacity Building for Global Health,” featuring Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD (Assistant Professor [General Internal Medicine], Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director of Faculty Mentorship and Academic Programs, Yale Institute for Global Health).
  • Thursday, September 9th @ 2-3pm: Yale Program in Addiction Medicine presents the 5th Annual Schottenfeld Lecture/Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds, “Canary in the Coal Mine: A Forgotten Rural Town, A Hidden Epidemic, and a Lone Doctor Battling for the Life, Health, and Soul of the People,” featuring William Cooke, MD (Family Medicine Specialist, Foundations Family Medicine, Austin, IN). In 2015, the CDC reported on a community outbreak of over 200 cases of HIV infection among people who inject drugs in Scott County, IN; Dr. Cooke is the Family Physician in Scott County who transformed his primary care practice to integrate treatment for opioid use disorder, HCV, and HIV, to serve the needs of his community. To attend, please visit: https://zoom.us/j/98457688379?pwd=c3BsSExNLzdJd3VkbklMUWlqWStUQT09
  • Thursday, September 9th @ 7-8:30pm: YSM Office of Global Health Education presents, “Global Health Night Out: Rheumatic Heart Disease.” To participate, use the following Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95875780315
  • Tuesday, September 14th @ 12-1pm: Minnesota Department of Health’s Center of Excellence in Newcomer Health presents, “2021 Webinar Series Part I: Introduction to Refugee Health.” For more information about the series (including additional details about this session), please visit: https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/MNMDH/bulletins/2ee257a
  • Tuesday, September 14th @ 6:30-8pm (Zoom): YSM Topics in Global Medicine and Health presents, “Orientation, Introduction to global health, group ‘global health glossary’ activity,” featuring Jeremy Schwartz, MD (Associate Professor of Medicine [General Internal Medicine], Yale School of Medicine; Associate Professor of Public Health [Chronic Disease Epidemiology], Yale School of Public Health). To join, please sign up for the course as detailed above or visit: https://zoom.us/j/95189935852?pwd=elVieFJidzBpY2NsRzcxM3NuVS9SQT09
  • Wednesday, September 15th @ 10-11am: Yale Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science presents, ““Opportunities and Challenges of Implementation Research to Prevent and Control Noncommunicable Disease in LMICs: The Nepal Experience,” featuring Archana Shrestha, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences; Assistant Professor Adjunct, Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Yale School of Public Health). To attend, please visit: https://yale.zoom.us/j/92089661741?from=addon (Password: 319750)

Save the Dates

  • September 17th-18th (full days) - Stony Brook Medicine presents, “The Long Road to Equity for Women in Medicine: a virtual conference for women and the health practitioners that care for them.” Join an international panel with very different perspectives, to track the origins of our women’s healthcare gap, and offer ways to improve the medical care of women. For more information and to register, visit: https://www.stonybrookmedicine.edu/WomensEquityConference2021
  • April 1-3, 2022 (full days) – Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2022 Annual Meeting (In-Person [Los Angeles] and Virtual). For more information, please visit: www.cugh2022.org

Additional Information

Wishing you a safe and healthy week!

Best,

Tracy

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