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November 15th, 2022
Dear Colleagues,
CUGH member, Stellenbosch University, led our first African-led global health conference last month. The event convened experts from across Africa and around the world to showcase their work across a broad range of contemporary issues. Lived experiences and innovations from the continent were shared and were inspiring to hear. The Annals of Global Health will be sharing highlights from the conference and we will showcase this summary. We are extremely grateful for the hard work the team at Stellenbosch university put into creating this innovative forum to share research excellence from African institutions and others.
In the next 5 weeks, COP 27 and COP 15 are taking place to address climate change and the biodiversity crisis respectively. This is a crucial time as the international community is far behind in addressing these interconnected, existential challenges that threaten all life on earth. What we do now, will impact generations to come.
Last October, we convened experts from around the world to address these threats in an effort to provide policy recommendations that nations can use. We also engaged scientists from across the African continent to provide their expertise, since COP 27 is taking place in Egypt. At CUGH we will continue to address these vital challenges with our members across the world.
Please remember to submit a satellite workshop proposal for CUGH 2023 (virtual or in person) next April in Washington DC, register for the conference, and book a room at the conference venue to take advantage of our lowest, discounted rates. It will be an exciting and unique opportunity to meet global health practitioners and leaders from around the world. Uniquely, the world health summit regional meeting and the AAHCI’s Global Innovation Forum will also take place at the conference venue for the first time in history.
Register and attend our webinar with a stellar lineup of panelists on preventing the disastrous effects of war on health, Nov. 16, 1 pm - 2:30 pm EST at www.cugh.org.
As always, this newsletter contains a wealth of information about our members, articles, reports, funding, and job opportunities. Please make sure to share this newsletter with your networks and encourage colleagues to attend CUGH2023 in April. www.cugh2023.org
Best wishes,
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Keith Martin, MD, PC
Executive Director
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In-person Satellite-Workshop Sessions: April 13, 2023
Virtual Satellite-Workshop Sessions: April 3-7, 2023
Deadline: November 30, 2022
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Are you working in global health, One-Health, or international development? Submit a short, impactful video that powerfully illustrates a global health, environmental or developmental challenge. It must be 5 minutes or less in length and can be submitted under one of two categories: Global Health Challenges, or High Impact Programs in Global Health. Winners will be highlighted at our 14th Annual Global Health Conference, which will be held in Washington, DC, April 14th-16th, 2023.
Submission deadline is December 10th, 2022.
Submit your video and learn more about the competition here.
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Civilians suffer much morbidity and mortality during war. War destroys health-supporting civilian infrastructure and forcibly displaces populations. War violates human rights in many ways, from physical and sexual violence against women to attacks on healthcare. War contaminates the environment. And war leads to more violence.
Join us tomorrow, November 16th at 1 pm ET for a webinar tackling these issues webinar. Register here.
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The 11th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research led by NIH's NCI will be held virtually April 4 - 6, 2023 as a satellite meeting to CUGH 2023. Submit scientific session proposals and abstracts by December 30th. For more details on the call for proposals, including criteria and guidelines, please visit our event page.
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Commentaries from Low Resource Environments
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South Sudan’s and Western Ethiopia’s experience of suffering war, violence and displacement for decades is well documented, as is the lack of quality health services, medical education, and among the world’s worst health outcomes. This article focuses on the progress that has been made towards establishing a medical school to serve these regions.
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Designed especially for engineering students with a senior design project—as well as students from other majors with technical experience—this program pairs students with local clients in South Africa to offer a hands-on experience developing medical devices to improve health outcomes in resource-poor environments, such as townships around Cape Town. Read more here.
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RESOURCES ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH
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Russia’s escalating attacks could trigger human catastrophe in Ukraine’s cities, inciting more than three million Ukrainians to flee their homes.
In this episode, we explore the war’s changing dynamics and the looming existential threat to Ukrainian society: with The New Yorker’s Susan Glasser; PBS NewsHour’s Nick Schifrin; Ukrainian health officials, J. Stephen Morrison, CSIS Senior Vice President, International Security Director Seth Jones, Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition Director Leonard Rubenstein and others.
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AN UPDATE ON ADDRESSING ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
The World Health Organization offers a resource to see the status of road traffic accidents in most countries, including fatality rates, and the level of compliance with basic preventative laws. Additionally, you can see the list of road safety NGOs around the world here.
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Sepsis kills millions of people every year. Please see discussions of how to boost the implementation of the WHA Sepsis Resolution, at 10th World Sepsis Day. Watch here.
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More than 250 health journals have joined forces by publishing an editorial aimed at convincing world leaders to deliver climate justice for Africa.
The editorial, authored by 16 editors of Africa’s leading biomedical journals, argues that the continent has suffered disproportionately even though it has done little to cause the climate crisis.
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SAVE THE DATE: AFREHEALTH 6TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM AUGUST 1-3, 2023 IN MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE
The 6th annual AFREhealth Symposium will be held August 1-3, 2023. Abstracts will open for the conference shortly.
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The 9th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening will be held in person on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, on the Stanford University campus. This year’s theme will focus on pandemic prevention and preparedness research, but abstracts are accepted on any global or planetary health topic. Submit an abstract for the Stanford 2023 Global Health Research Convening. Deadline to submit: November 20, 2022.
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Join leaders in health equity and justice for an in-depth experience of learning and collaboration to promote actionable change in health equity research, practice, and policies at the 2022 Partners for Advancing Health Equity Summit to be held at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, Louisiana from December 4-6, 2022. Registration is FREE.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has caused a humanitarian crisis impacting millions of individuals within Ukraine and globally. While war-related healthcare delivery has been discussed in both the academic biomedical literature and in non-peer-reviewed sources, little academic attention has been paid to overseas medical students who have had to abandon their education. These constitute nearly a third of the 80,000 international students in Ukraine and represent a valuable part of the global healthcare workforce. Read this article to learn more about this important issue.
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“The Virchow Prize [for Global Health] symbolizes outstanding achievement in global health, but it also symbolizes Germany’s leadership in global health in recent years.” Nominations for the 2023 Virchow Prize for Global Health may be submitted until March 31, 2023. Please find more information here on the nomination process.
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New $500,000 National Institute of Health (NIH) laboratories supported by the US government. The laboratories will focus on conducting research on viruses of animal origin that infect humans. The labs in partnership with NIH will also strengthen collaboration with international scientists. Congratulations to the team in Uganda and CUGH's Dr. Tom Quinn (NIAID).
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International travel and communication are important to Academic Global Health Programs. The pandemic has had a considerable impact on the education, research, and administrative components of these programs. This study assessed the impacts and resultant adaptations of AGHPs to pandemic realities with the goal of sharing strategies and approaches. Read the article here.
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Please see this article on the lessons we can still learn from the late Dr. Paul Farmer, gathered from interviews conducted by Madhukar Pai. Read the article here.
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Empathy is extolled in Western healthcare and medical education as an exemplary quality to cultivate in trainees and providers. Yet it remains an elusive and inadequately under-stood attribute. It posits a “one size fits all” unidimensional attribute applicable across contexts with scant attention given to its multifaceted dimensions in intercultural contexts. In this article, we uncloak the shortcomings of this conventional empathy in intercultural settings, and instead propound an expanded “relational empathy”. Read the article here.
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The Emory Global Health Institute’s (EGHI) 2023 Emory Morningside Global Health Case Competition will take place March 10-18, 2023. During the competition, multidisciplinary student teams will work together for one week to develop comprehensive case solutions to a hypothetical but real-world global health challenge. The application period is Monday, October 24 – Monday, November 21. For more information please visit bit.ly/2023EmoryMorningsideGHCC.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities
(see our new Jobs Board to see the latest listings)
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The University of Washington Global and Rural Health Fellowship is now accepting applications for Internal Medicine and Medicine-Pediatrics physicians who are interested in becoming leaders and experts in the fields of global and rural health. This Global and Rural Health Fellowship is a two-year training program where fellows spend one year living and working with Native populations in Alaska and South Dakota and one year working abroad on medical education and/or research projects with University of Washington faculty and mentors. In addition to a weekly structured curriculum, fellows can also obtain a Master’s Degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine or attend tropical medicine courses. For more information, please contact Meryl Yang at meryly@uw.edu or go to https://globalhealth.washington.edu/academic-programs/residents-fellows/global-and-rural-health-fellowship.
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The Fogarty International Center at NIH offers funding to support global health research. 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 career.
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Featured Reading & Listening |
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Despite 53 deaths, people are still in denial of the danger as doctors race to develop an effective vaccine against the Sudan strain of the disease. Read here.
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Global Health Journals & Newsletters |
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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