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Updated Newsletter
March 2023
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A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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March 17th, 2023
Dear Colleague,
We are less than a month away from CUGH2023 in Washington DC. Register now on our conference website, www.cugh2023.org and check out our inspiring program and speakers. They are on the cutting edge of tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges. This will be the first time we will be meeting face-to-face since 2019. It is the must-attend meeting for faculty, practitioners, policymakers, and students from any sector and discipline who are working to improve the well-being of people and address the pressing environmental challenges before us.
Also, register separately for our free satellite sessions, April 3-7 (virtual) April 13 (in-person), the World Health Summit Regional Meeting on April 13, and the Annual CUGH-Pulitzer Center Global Health Film Festival and Communications Workshop.
President Biden released his budget proposals for FY2024. We will be on Capitol Hill, April 11 with our members. We will meet with congressional offices to support US investments in global health and development.
PLEASE SHARE THIS NEWSLETTER WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC, April 13-16.
Best wishes,
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Keith Martin, MD, PC
Executive Director
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INCOMING AND OUTGOING MEMBERS: CUGH'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Please join us in welcoming the newly elected members of CUGH's Board of Directors who commence their 3-year terms in April. We are very grateful to our outgoing Board members for their service to CUGH and the larger global health community.
Incoming Members
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Peter Berman, PhD, Adjunct Professor of Global Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
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Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD, Associate Dean of National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
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Patricia J. García, MD, MPH, PhD, Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University, Peru
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Rebecca Martin, PhD, Vice President for Global Health Emory University, USA
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Kien Alfred Mteta, MD, Vice President, Africa Forum for Research and Education in Health (AFREhealth), Tanzania
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Jibril Handuleh, Amoud University, Somaliland (Incoming TAC Co-Chair)
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Matthew Kemmerle, Ross University School of Medicine, USA (Incoming TAC Co-Chair)
Outgoing Members
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Quentin Eichbaum, MD, PhD, MPH, MFA, MMHC, FCAP, FASCP, Program Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA
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Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, Director, International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Program (ICAP) and Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research (CIDER), Columbia University, USA
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Elizabeth Frost, PhD Candidate, San Diego State University, USA (TAC Chair)
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Virginia Rowthorn, JD, LLM, Assistant. Vice President for Global Engagement, Center for Global Engagement University of Maryland Baltimore, USA
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Gavin Yamey MD, MPH, MA, Director, Center for Policy Impact in Global Health, Duke University, USA
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Winners of CUGH's Awards: a partial list of our awardees
CUGH's Lifetime Achievement in Global Health Award
We are honored that Dr. Roger Glass, the former Director of NIH’s Fogarty Center has been named the second recipient of CUGH’s Lifetime Achievement Award in Global Health. Dr. Glass will give the keynote address for CUGH 2023. His remarkable bio is here.
CUGH's Distinguished Leadership Award
- Michele Barry, MD, FACP, Director, Center for Innovation in Global Health, Stanford University
- Frederick Chite Asirwa, MB, ChB, MD, Executive Director & CEO, International Cancer Institute
CUGH's Dr. Thomas Hall-Dr Nelson Sewankambo Mid-Career Leadership Award
- Anip Joshi, MBBS, MS, FACS, Chief Consultant Surgeon and Associate Professor, Bir Hospital, National Academy of Medical Sciences
- Wilbroad Mutale, MBChB, Ph.D., Professor of Public Health, University of Zambia
- Michael Reid, MA, MBBS, MPH, Director of the Center for Pandemic Preparedness and Response, University of California, San Francisco
CUGH's Dr. Wasserheit Young Leader Award
- David Jolly Muganzi, MBChB, Chairperson, Patient-Centered Care Movement Africa
- Muhammad Jawad Noon, MS, Research Associate in Economic Sciences, University of Göttingen
- Nancy Satpathy, Ph.D. Ph.D., Scholar in Public Health, Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan University
CUGH-Pulitzer Center Annual Global Health Video Competition Awards
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ARTICLES AND RESOURCES ON THE CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE IN SYRIA AND TURKEY
Syria and Turkey are still reeling from catastrophic earthquakes that struck last month. See our press release and other articles below to learn more and find out how you can help.
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The Virchow Foundation for Global Health's 2023 Virchow Prize for Global Health is open for nominations for only a few more weeks, until Friday, March 31, 2023. Please find further details and submission form on the website.
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This is an exciting opportunity for attendees to engage with experts in the field, network with like-minded individuals, and gain insights into the latest research and developments related to existential risk. This year’s conference aims to take stock of global catastrophic and existential risk studies. A special focus of this meeting will be risk intersections, reinforcements, and cascades: information about the sign-up process is available on the conference website.
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Amid overlapping crises and unprecedented strain on aid budgets, development actors are being called on to adapt their policies, strategies, and partnerships in a spirit of global solidarity and burden sharing. The Development Co-operation Report 2023: Debating the Aid System finds that debates are crystalizing around the need for a fundamental rethinking of the international development system. Read the report here.
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These are critical investments that strengthen our ability to prevent, detect and respond to potential pandemics.
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2018 report by the Center for American Progress, Beyond Our Borders, which analyzes this data with respect to Canada.
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Offering online, short, and focused courses taught by global experts, the Gender and Health Summer Institute is focused on building and refreshing applied skills in gender and health equity.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities
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The University of Minnesota's Global Health Seed Grant program fosters interdisciplinary collaborations to advance new global health research.
Every spring, the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR) requests proposals for annual awards of up to $25,000 to catalyze innovative global health research projects. CGHSR prioritizes projects that advance new research opportunities, particularly those based in Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean. Learn more about the grants.
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Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity is searching for its 2024 cohort to join a lifelong community of health equity leaders. Through a mix of in-person convenings and a virtual curriculum, the fellowship provides mentorship and coaching to build health equity leadership skills with a focus on creating real change in fellows’ communities.
This non-residential fellowship is open to early to mid-career professionals from anywhere in the world doing work related to health and is based at George Washington University. For more information, reach out to afhe@atlanticfellows.org.
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See the latest Fogarty International Center global health research funding opportunities. Fogarty also offers a variety of resources for those seeking global health research funding across NIH, and from other organizations.
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The following three resources from Johns Hopkins University are continuously updated repositories of federal and private funding opportunities for individuals in various stages of their careers.
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Featured Reading & Listening |
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The University of Cape Town scientists, relying on a cache of 2-decade-old frozen blood samples, have made an important advance in the quest for an mRNA vaccine against TB. Read here.
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Global Health Journals & Newsletters |
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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