Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Update for January 6, 2025

Dear GHEDP Colleagues,

Greetings to all – we hope that you were able to take some time to catch your breath over the holiday season and wish you a happy and healthy 2025!

• Yogesh Khanal Pilot Award call for applications (deadline January 15^th): 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 was 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.
• 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 27^th).  Trainees are eligible for awards. Abstract deadline: January 31^st @ 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 31^st: https://www.womenglobalhealth.com/female-global-scholars-1
• Cornell’s Global Health Research Fellowship (rolling application): https://globalhealth.weill.cornell.edu/fellowship

• NEJM Jan 2025: Transitional Justice — A Politico-Legal Approach to Health Equity (Yale’s own Emily McNeil)
• NEJM Dec 2024: Long-Acting HIV Medicines and the Pandemic Inequality Cycle — Rethinking Access
• Lancet Dec 2024: Highlights 2024: diverse insights and perspectives on health stories
• NEJM Dec 2024: Fight or Flight — Facing the Marburg Outbreak in Rwanda
• NEJM Dec 2024: “Blessed Be the Fruit” — The Contemporary Rise of Pronatalism
• Lancet Global Health Jan 2025: Prices, availability, and affordability of adult medicines in 54 low-income and middle-income countries: evidence based on a secondary analysis

• Tuesday, January 7^th @ 10:15am (TAC Auditorium or on Zoom): Genetics Clinical Grand Rounds: "Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins: Histories and Futures of Genetic Essentialism"
• Wednesday, January 8^th @ 2-3pm (YSPH LEPH Room 101): Data Science for Health Equity: Extending Beyond Innovation to Impact by Dr. Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, PhD (Associate Professor, Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School & Associate Professor, Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School of Public Health)
• Wednesday, January 8^th @ 5pm (Cohen Auditorium and online via Zoom): Program for Biomedical Ethics presents: Imagination & the Ethics of Hope: Mitigating the Decline of American Medicine with Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (Trad ’09)
• Friday, January 10^th @ 10:15am (Fitkin Auditorium or Zoom): Yale Psychiatry Grand Rounds: "Theories of Psychotic Disorders - History of Racism and Antisemitism, Traditions and Other Critical Perspectives" (Please email Chris Gardner at christopher.gardner@yale.edu for the Zoom link)
• Tuesday, January 14^th @ 3pm (TAC Auditorium): "Perspectives for Inclusion" Lecture: Disability in Academic Medicine”
• Wednesday, January 29^th @ 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 30^th 7:30-8:30pm (location TBD): Op-Ed Writing with Alum Dr. Pranay Sinha, Part 2

• 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

• 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: https://globalhealthnow.org/subscribe

Best,

Tracy and Sheela