Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway News Updated for March 13, 2025

Dear GHEDP Colleagues,

There have been so many disheartening cuts in funding from the US government – one of the largest cuts, at least to this point, has been in global HIV efforts. There is much work being done to advocate for restoring funding and maintaining our commitments, especially to PEPFAR which supports 20+ million people with HIV globally. Please see this virtual tool that may be helpful to you in your ongoing work: https://pepfar.impactcounter.com/ (The development of this tool is described here in JIAS: Rapid development of an online tracker to communicate the human impact of abruptly halting PEPFAR support)

There are also tools that have been developed to track the immediate and long term impact of USAID funding cuts on global TB. If there are other tools that may be useful to the global health community, please let us know.

New and Notable

· Lancet Feb 2025: Safety and efficacy of repeat ivermectin mass drug administrations for malaria control (RIMDAMAL II): a phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cluster-randomised, parallel-group trial (Yale author Dr. Sunil Parikh)

· NEJM Feb 2025: A Program to Reduce Birth-Related Mortality in Tanzania

· NEJM March 2025: Incidence of Scrub Typhus in Rural South India

· NEJM March 2025: Advancing Transgender Health amid Policy Threats

· NEJM March 2025: A Program to Reduce Birth-Related Mortality in Tanzania

· Lancet Feb 2025: American chaos: standing up for health and medicine

· Lancet March 2025: The potential for annual long-acting HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis

· Lancet March 2025 (commentary): Africa's defining moment: the time to lead the HIV response is now

· Lancet March 2025 (commentary): US funding cuts as a catalyst for African-led HIV solutions

Upcoming Local Events: March/April/May

• Thursday, March 13^th @ 1230pm: Air quality, Environmental Health, and Justice by Dr. Christina Fuller, University of Georgia. Register here for the Webex link.
• Wednesday, March 19^th @ 830am on zoom: Measles and other preventable diseases: Clinical and Public Health Update featuring Dr. Lynn Sosa CT Dept of Public Health, Dr. Manisha Juthani-Mehta, Commissioner, CT Dept of Public Health, Dr. Marjorie Golden, Yale ID

• Department of Internal Medicine Global Health Week: Fostering Resilient Global Health Partnerships

• Monday, March 24^th @ 12-1pm (Zoom): (Title TBD) by Dr. Ruchit Nagar(Med/Peds PGY-4; CEO and Co-Founder, Khushi Baby)
• Tuesday, March 25^th @ 12-1pm (Zoom): Annual Virtual Global Health Poster Session
• Thursday, March 27^th @8:30-9:30am (Zoom/In-person @ Fitkin Amphitheater): Medical Grand Rounds: The Asghar Rastegar Lecture in Global Health - “Perspectives in Global Health Research Partnerships from the National Institutes of Health” by Dr. Peter Kilmarx, Deputy Director, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health

· Thursday, March 27^th @ 12-1pm (Zoom): Faculty Panel (Title TBD)

· Thursday, March 27^th @ 5:30-8:15pm (Hope Building, Rm 110): 8th Annual Yale Refugee Health Conference: Physical and Mental Health of Refugees: From Surviving to Thriving. Our keynote speaker is Oballa Oballa, a former refugee from Ethiopia and current City Councilman from Austin, MN. Register by 3/25 here.

· Wednesday, April 9^th @ 4-530pm: CAS Lecture Series: Migration, Health Inequalities, and Global Justice.

• Thursday, April 17^th @ 1230pm: "Exertional Heat Stroke: A Public Health Crisis in a Warming World - Exploring Current Efforts to Mitigate the Risk" by Dr. Douglas Casa, Korey Stringer Institute.
• Thursday, May 1^st @ 1230pm: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Recruitment and Retention of Research Participants by Dr. Susan Brown, University of California, Davis School of Medicine.

Online Trainings & Recordings of Past Events Available:

• NEWLY ADDED: 5 Minute Moment for Racial Justice in Healthcare is a case-based curriculum and educational framework that identifies examples of racism in present-day clinical practice and equips healthcare professionals with the language and framework to discuss this topic with learners. 1.5hrs
• 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