Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for March 4, 2024

Greetings to all,

• Friday, March 15^th (@11:59pm): deadline for the Yogesh Khanal Pilot Project Award; see attached application form.This funding opportunity provides up to $2500 for a mentored global health/health equity clinical research or medical education project over a 12-month period; all residents in the Department of Internal Medicine are eligible to apply. This award is founded in memory of Dr. Yogesh Khanal (Trad ’15 & Traditional Internal Medicine Chief Resident 2015-2016), a compassionate and dedicated colleague and physician, with a deep commitment to addressing health disparities by working with underserved communities both domestically and internationally. Please contact Sheela Shenoi, Associate Director, Office of Global Health (Sheela.Shenoi@yale.edu) with questions.

• SAVE THE DATE: Department of Internal Medicine Global Health Week (March 25-28th): Climate Change, Global Migration, and Health

• Monday, March 25^th 12-1pm: Noon Conference – Caring for Displaced Persons: The Fair Haven Community Health Center Response to Hurricane Maria

• Monday March 25^th 6:30pm: Dinner & Film Screening: Climate Refugees

• Tuesday, March 26^th 12-1pm: Global Health Poster Session. Zoom

• Thursday, March 28^th 8:30-9:30am: Medical Grand Rounds featuring Dr. Maya Prabhu “Climate Migration is happening: what does this mean for medicine?”

• Thursday March 28^th 12-1pm: Faculty Panel

• Thursday, March 28^th 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 Global Health March 2024: The major global burden of chronic kidney disease

NEJM March 2024: “Ridding the Race of His Defective Blood” — Eugenics in the Journal, 1906–1948

Lancet Global Health March 2024: Learning from our differences: insights from a global heart failure registry

Lancet Public Health March 2024: The effect of health-care privatisation on the quality of care

Lancet Rheumatology March 2024: Cardiovascular risk in gout: time for action

Upcoming Local Events: March

Thursday March 7^th @ 630pm Fitkin Auditorium: "An Evening with CT Senator Dr. Saud Anwar: What do you need to know about public health policies in 2024?" RSVP here.

Monday March 11^th @ 1230-130pm: Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric HIV Infection by Dr. Elaine Abrams. Register 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