Dear GHEDP Colleagues,
As you may have already heard, one of the first items on the agenda for the new U.S. administration was to issue an Executive Order to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization. (Click here to read the text of the order, along with the text of the response from the WHO.) For a succinct and thoughtful commentary on the potential impacts of this decision, please read this piece by authors from the US, UK, and Malaysia in the BMJ, “The US Withdrawal from the WHO: a global health crisis in the making.”
Open Applications
- Virtual Global Health Poster Session on Tuesday March 25th, 2025, 12-1pm as part of the lead up to the Department of Internal Medicine’s 14th Annual Global Health Day (Thursday March 27th). Trainees are eligible for awards. Abstract deadline: February 7th @ 5pm in Microsoft Word to Sheela.Shenoi@yale.edu. Please state in the subject line “Global Health Day 2024 Abstract”. In the body of the email, please list: Title, All authors’ names and affiliations, Please specify the presenting author with email address. The presenting author will be notified by the end of February.
- Women's Infectious Diseases Global Scholars Program (WINGS) – Deadline January 31st: https://www.womenglobalhealth.com/female-global-scholars-1 https://www.womenglobalhealth.com/female-global-scholars-1
- Cornell’s Global Health Research Fellowship (rolling application): https://globalhealth.weill.cornell.edu/fellowship
New and Notable
· NEJM Jan 2025: The Future of Gender-Affirming Care
· NEJM Jan 2025: Future of U.S. Physician Workforce
· Lancet Jan 2025: Beyond equity, diversity and inclusion: the power of intersectionality in transforming workforces
· Lancet Dec 2024: Estimating the effect of annual PM2·5 exposure on mortality in India: a difference-in-differences approach
- Lancet Jan 2025: The role of public health professionals in addressing the health and humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza
- BMJ Open Jan 2025: Inequalities in lifespan and mortality risk in the US, 2015–2019: a cross-sectional analysis of subpopulations by social determinants of health
Upcoming Local Events: January
- Tuesday January 21st @ 215pm at Cohen Auditorium or zoom: YCSC Special Session: The Culture Change Project by Dr. Nat Kendall-Taylor.
- Wednesday January 29th @ 10-11am on zoom: The Economic Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance. By the Center for Global Development.
- Wednesday, January 29th @ 12-1pm (Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, Winslow Auditorium (Room 109): Navigating Global Health in the 21st Century: Science, Partnerships and Political Will. Dr. Kathleen Neuzil, Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health.
- Thursday, January 30th 7:30-8:30pm (location TBD): Op-Ed Writing with Alum Dr. Pranay Sinha, Part 2
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: 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