Dear GHEDP Colleagues,
- NEW: Accepting Applications: Women's Infectious Diseases Global Scholars Program (WINGS) – Deadline Jan 31, 2025: https://www.womenglobalhealth.com/female-global-scholars-1
- Accepting Applications: Cornell’s Global Health Research Fellowship https://globalhealth.weill.cornell.edu/fellowship
- The recording from the Global Health Scholars Info Session on Thursday October 24th is on the Office of Global Health webpage! Application deadline: December 13th!
New and Notable
- Lancet Dec 2024: A roadmap to better health in the USA This is the editorial lead to an entire issue of The Lancet: A Presidential Briefing Book, aimed at the incoming administration, covering a variety of topics from carceral health, to racial inequities in life expectancy, to obesity, to health care workforce. Highly recommended!
- NEJM Nov 2024: Health Equity Rounds — Root-Cause and Solutions-Oriented Discussions of Medical Racism
Upcoming Local Events: December
- Tuesday Dec 10th @ 10-11am Boyer 206 or zoom: "Racial Disparities in Opioid Misuse After ED Visits" by Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, MD, MS
- Wednesday Dec 11th @ 2pm: Yale Sleep Medicine Seminar "New England Sleep Medicine Seminar Improving Access and Equity in Sleep Disordered Breathing Care"by Sachin R. Pendharkar, MD, MSc
- Wednesday Dec 11th @ 2-315pm: America’s Ground Game: How USAID is Changing and Why it Matters by Samantha Power. Register for the zoom link here.
- Thursday December 12th @2-330pm: Haitian Culture and Health Screening Considerations.
- Thursday December 12th @ 630pm at Humanities Quad 320 York Street: Separated: A Film Screening and Conversation with Jacob Soboroff and Lee Gelernt. This event will feature a screening of the new film Separated by Oscar winner Errol Morris, which documents the systematic separation of migrant families at the hands of the U.S. government. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Poynter Fellow and Executive Producer Jacob Soboroff (NBC News Political and National Correspondent) and Lee Gelernt (Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project) moderated by Professor Dylan Gee (Psychology). Doors will open at 6pm, and the event is open to the public.
Online Trainings & Recordings of Past Events Available:
- Responding to Mpox: Voices from the Front Lines by Columbia University ICAP. Recording and slides available.
- Online, free, Health Across the Gender Spectrum: 2.25hrs/2.25 CME credits.
- Online recording of Center for Global Development: How Will AI Transform Work and Jobs in Developing Countries?
- 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: /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: /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