A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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February 17th, 2023
Dear Colleague,
We all watched the terrible impact of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria with horror and grief. More than 35,000 people have died so far and our hearts go out to those who lost loved ones in this tragedy. However, in a post-disaster situation, the absence of essential medical supplies, food, water, and shelter will result in many additional people dying of preventable causes. We can and must act now to avoid any additional loss of life. This newsletter includes our press release, which has specific recommendations for the international community and a list of organizations helping the affected people in these two countries. Thank you for supporting them if you can.
We are now less than two months away from our upcoming conference. (Register at www.cugh2023.org) The program is superb with a roster of outstanding speakers. This will be a superb opportunity to meet face to face, learn, share, be inspired and build the partnerships needed to address the complex global challenges before us. Don’t forget to also register for our virtual satellite sessions on April 3-7 and our in-person satellite sessions on April 13. We created these sessions as a way for those who are unable to attend our conference to participate in our work. Also, register for the World Health Summit Regional Meeting, if you do you will receive a discount to attend CUGH2023. Our Keynote Address will be given by Dr. Roger Glass who stepped down as the NIH Fogarty Center’s Director. He is also the recipient of our Lifetime Achievement in Global Health Award.
Enclosed are outstanding new reports, funding and training opportunities.
We look forward to seeing you in Washington, DC.
Best wishes,
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Keith Martin, MD, PC
Executive Director
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Register for the free satellite sessions (open to all)
Winners of CUGH's Awards: a partial list of our awardees
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CUGH's Lifetime Achievement in Global Health Award
- Roger Glass, MD, PhD former director of the Fogarty Center, National Institutes of Health
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
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CUGH Multimedia Reflections in Global Health Contest Winners!
Winners
- “Parvanehye Azad” by Bahareh Sharafi, Ross University School of Medicine; MD program
- “Dalagang Filipina” by Danielle Sanchez, University of California, Davis; Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior and Communication
- “Chrysalis” by Katarina Schneiderman, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; MD program
Honorable mentions
- “Adversity, resilience and Mental health Post-disaster” by Kiran Thapa, University of Georgia; Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics
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“Reflections and Hopes from the South” by Mara Rubia André Alves de Lima, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre
- “The Dissection of Autonomy” by Jill Kar, MD from New Vision University School of Medicine, Tbilisi, Georgia
- “Data Gathering in Low-Resource Settings Is a Big Deal—Bigger Than You Think? by Idris Ola, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany, PhD program
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NEW WEBINARS FROM CUGH (PLEASE SHARE THESE LINKS WIDELY) |
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Led by Dr. Liz Willetts and co-authored by CUGH's Executive Director, Dr. Keith Martin, and others who attended COP15, this commentary outlines how strengthening governance in addressing the crisis in global biodiversity will improve human health and well-being. At COP15 in Montreal, health professionals and organizations including many of the authors of this piece were involved in the agenda-setting (intercessional subsidiary body) and decision-making at this international meeting to address this crisis. The authors helped to include human health and the environmental determinants of health into the framework document.
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The Havey Institute for Global Health’s Dr. Rob Murphy opens his second season of podcasts by interviewing CUGH’s Executive Director Dr. Keith Martin, where they explore how we can reform global health to be more effective, equitable, and impactful in addressing contemporary global threats. Listen to the podcast here.
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Hear the podcast and see the video and commentary by the Lancet’s editor, Dr. Richard Horton on this venerable journal’s 200th anniversary. We look forward to celebrating this important milestone at our April conference.
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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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Global & Border Health at the University of Arizona College of Medicine is offering the Global Health Intensive Course,” a 3-week course (classroom/in-person) that prepares those in healthcare for the clinical and public health problems that may be encountered abroad. Please see the detailed information about the course including the online application.
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The goal of this course is to equip federal, regional, and local health systems planners, hospital administrators, long-term care/community care professionals, emergency planners, sustainability officers, public health officials, health practitioners, and others with the knowledge and tools needed to prepare for climate change. Register & learn more here.
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It is the 20-year anniversary of the launch of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). With over $100 billion in U.S. investments in the last two decades, the PEPFAR program is the largest commitment by any nation to address a single disease in human history, responsible for saving over 25 million lives and preventing millions of HIV infections in the United States and around the world.
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Increasing attention is being paid to the inequity that pervades global health research. Efforts to rectify inequities require all stakeholders to examine the way in which research is conducted. Read more here.
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The Radcliff Department of Medicine & Wolfson College, at the University of Oxford, is offering a Global Health Diplomacy & Security, Short Course, 19th June-24th June 2023. The course is aimed at professionals working in the global health field who are interested in developing global health diplomatic negotiation skills with a view to collaborative partnerships.
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University of British Columbia's graduate programs will build on learner's health-care-related disciplines to gain the fundamental knowledge, critical thinking tools, and practical skills needed to lead the way to improved access to care by addressing the gap that exists between surgical needs and the equitable provision of safe surgical care in low resource settings.
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The Graduate Certificate in Global Surgical Care (GCGSC) is a 12-credit certificate program consisting of 4 courses designed to meet the growing need for professional development in global surgical care.
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The Master of Global Surgical Care (MGSC) is an online two-year, 30-credit specialized program consisting of 8 courses designed to prepare surgical care professionals from many disciplines to address surgical challenges and contribute to solutions in low-resource settings globally.
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Join the 50,000+ readers in 170+ countries who rely on Global Health NOW for up-to-the-minute global health news. Subscribe now for free to our smartly curated, easy-to-scan weekday newsletter from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. (Read GHN’s recent newsletters here.)
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Please fill out CUGH's Global Health Operations Committee's survey of the organizational structures, administrative processes, and funding strategies used by global health departments/programs/centers/institutes. The purpose of this survey is to “‘identify and develop guiding principles to enhance university administrations’ procedural and financial alignment with programmatic priorities in global health, education, research, and service activities". Please complete the survey before February 28th. The results will be shared publicly. We hope this information will provide valuable information that will assist global health programs to improve their operational activities. Complete the survey here.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities
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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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A new study from Georgetown University finds that warmer temperatures brought on by climate change are allowing malaria-carrying mosquitoes to invade new regions and reach higher altitudes.
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Global Health Journals & Newsletters |
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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