A MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR |
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August 13th, 2021
Dear colleague,
Great news! The portal to submit abstracts, panel proposals, satellite sessions and to register for CUGH2022, March-April, 2022 is open. Please note the deadline for submitting panels is Aug. 31 and for abstracts it is Sept. 23. We strongly encourage those in biomedical and non-biomedical disciplines to participate in the conference as speakers or attendees. It will be a hybrid meeting, i.e. one can join in person in Los Angeles, Mar 31 - Apr. 3 at the Hotel Bonaventure or online from anywhere in the world.
We are also running a free, Pre-COP26, online, half-day symposium on Climate Change and Health, October 15, 11 am EST. Global leaders will share what policymakers can do to both address climate change and improve health outcomes and African scientists will share what should be on the COP27 agenda, which will be in Africa in 2022. Register NOW.
Also, this month we co-hosted a webinar with the National Academy of Medicine on the High-Level Independent Panel Report to the G20 on financing for pandemic prevention and preparedness. See the report and our webinar in this bulletin.
Finally, over the last month, we were deeply saddened to hear about the passing of three giants in global health. Prof. David Olaleye, renowned virologist at the University of Ibadan, and a great friend of CUGH, died of Covid-19; pharmaceutical executive, philanthropist and scientist Dr. Tachi Yamada, passed away unexpectedly at his home on August 4; and Dr. John Mukasa, one of the very few neurosurgeons in Uganda also died of Covid-19. These are enormous losses for their countries, communities and above all, for their families and friends. We extend our deepest condolences to their loved ones during this most difficult of times. They will be missed deeply.
Best wishes,
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Keith Martin, MD, PC
Executive Director
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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CUGH 2022, 'Healthy People, Healthy Planet, Social Justice' will be held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, Apr. 1st-3rd. In person satellite sessions will take place on March 31st. Virtual satellite sessions will take place Mar. 21st-25th. The main conference will be in person and live streamed, so if you are unable to attend the meeting in LA, you can do so online. In person attendees will also have full access to online streaming. All material will be available to all registrants for up to one year after the conference concludes. See www.cugh2022.org to register for the conference, submit abstracts, and, for members, submit panel proposals.
We hope to see you next April in LA!
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Once again for the 13th Annual CUGH Conference (April 1-3, 2022), the Abstract Advising Program will connect early-career CUGH and AFREhealth members (advisees) with more experienced CUGH and AFREhealth members (advisors). Once linked, the advisor and advisee will work together in a brief, focused interaction to improve the quality of the abstract prior to submission for CUGH2022 (deadline September 23, 2021).
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Hear and engage global leaders on this free, CUGH online symposium, on what we can do to improve both climate change and health outcomes and pave the path for an impactful COP27 program led by African scientists.
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See the recent webinar held by CUGH and the National Academy of Medicine regarding the report of the G20 High Level Independent Panel on financing the global commons for pandemic preparedness and response.
The report sets out critical and actionable solutions and investments to meet this challenge.
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CUGH will host a webinar introducing the Planetary Health Education Framework. The PHEF is a transdisciplinary effort that aims to guide the education of global citizens, practitioners, and professionals able and willing to address the complex Planetary Health challenges of our world today. This webinar will take place August 18th, 11 am ET. Register here.
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The CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee will host a webinar titled "Decolonizing Global Health: Conceptual Ramifications for Students and Faculty". Our health education system needs to change. We need to base it on human dignity. Join us to talk and discover how we can train decolonizers with meaningful engagement.
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Attention colleagues from LMICs
If you are a scientist, researcher or implementer from low and low middle-income countries, send us your commentaries that describe innovations, challenges and opportunities in global health. Submissions should be between 500 to 800 words. Submitters can also include videos that describing issue. Some will be published in our bulletin every month, as well on www.cugh.org. We hope this effort will increase awareness of these issues.
Submit using the following form:
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In Ghana, up to three-quarters of prostate cancers are diagnosed at advanced stages. The late detection of the disease reflects a high mortality rate, high cost of illness, and poor management outcomes. These deaths could have been controlled if the disease had been detected in the localized stage. Read more about prostate cancer in Ghana.
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CUGH Events & Updates (cont.) |
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Africa Health is the principal output of African Centre for Global Health and Social Transformation (ACHEST), an initiative promoted by a network of African and international leaders in health and development. It is an independent Think Tank and a network.
The journal has filled an important gap in the literature in Africa and for many readers it has been the only CPD publication received and is dedicated to healthcare publishing and continuing professional development in Africa.
View and support the Africa Health Journal here.
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Health human resources deficits in low-income countries are significant. Colleagues in these nations have said that building their capacity to train their workers is a top priority. To help address this, we created an online capacity building database so that institutions, especially in low resource settings, could share their training needs (trainers and curricula) across biomedical and non-biomedical disciplines. Those who have these assets and are willing to share them can post on the site too. Please use the following site to connect training needs with educational assets and help our colleagues to strengthen their training capabilities.
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CUGH's Subcommittee on Master's and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health (SMUDGH) has created and approved four one-page information sheets on advising, experiential learning, learning objectives, and curricula in global health.
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Working alongside our readers, authors, and colleagues, the Lancet journals are committed to highlighting issues of racial and ethnic injustice, celebrating diversity, and debating ways forward. As part of our commitment, and in honour of International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, we have collated a special collection on the health and wellbeing of Indigenous peoples around the world, chosen by our Editors. Content in this collection that normally sits behind a paywall will be free to access with registration until Aug 16, 2021.
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The Lancet Voice is a new podcast venture from The Lancet which looks to push beyond the traditional Lancet academic audience into the wider public with stories about health from particularly low income communities around the world. Its mission is to platform authentic voices and to talk about the qualitative aspects of health that come from lived experience.
Please listen to one of the most recent episodes at thelancetvoice.buzzsprout.com, and feel free to reach out to podcasts@lancet.com with your pitches on the topic of surprising and affecting stories from health and health care in underserved populations.
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Join the Caribbean community and international partners October 5-8, 2021 for 4 days of immersion in the science of climate change and health in the Caribbean. Identifying knowledge gaps, posing solutions, resource sharing, networking, and empowerment will take place as we work together to address the critical public health issue of climate change, and find a sustainable way to live healthy lives.
Speakers, registration, and calls-for-papers to be announced soon. View the flyer here. Please share this widely.
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Greetings from BRAC James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), BRAC University.
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Sign the following letter to urge Pres. Joe Biden to increase US efforts to work with low income nations to increase their vaccination rates.
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The Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) and the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research (CCGHR) officially amalgamated this past month to become the Canadian Association for Global Health (CAGH). This is a very significant amalgamation in the history of global health in Canada. https://cagh-acsm.org/en/propos/who-we-are
In addition, CAGH has an Annual conference every Fall - “Canadian Conference on Global Health”. This year it will be at the Delta Hotel, Ottawa, Canada & Virtual, Wednesday, November 24th – Friday, November 26th, 2021. The theme for the conference is: “Rethinking partnership paradigms in global health” https://cagh-acsm.org/en/events/canadian-conference-global-health
Join us virtually or in-person for this exciting hybrid event! Registration will be open soon, so mark your calendars.
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The Steering Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Climate Change and Human Health Working Group invites feedback on the approaches NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices can take to enhance research on the health implications of climate change in the United States and globally.
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Bridging Medical Gaps Collaboration is virtually hosting their very FIRST annual conference on September 18, 2021!
The conference will be centered on health communication: how we, as health trainees and professionals communicate to the public, to our patients, to each other (both intra- and inter-professionally), and to our policymakers.
Join BMGC in learning from our exciting speakers and submit an abstract for our poster competition!
Abstracts due by July 30, 2021. Submit HERE.
Register for the conference HERE.
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ALERT! Climate Change is having escalating impacts on human health and contributing to unprecedented heatwaves this summer in the Pacific Northwest.
A panel of regional clinicians and public health experts will discuss emerging health and health system impacts, the climate science behind the event and opportunities for bolstering public health response.
3 PM (PT) / 6 PM (EST) Thursday August 26, 2021
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As the host of this year's virtual Midwest CUGH Conference on Oct. 7, Indiana University Center for Global Health is seeking panel and/or 30-minute session submissions from Midwest CUGH member institutions that are related to the theme of this year’s conference, which is Healthcare System Resiliency with an emphasis on global health partnerships, collaboration and equity.
The conference brings together faculty and students from more than 30 academic institutions across the US Midwest and their global partners to discuss global health issues, share best practices and network with colleagues. The conference will be held virtually on Thursday, October 7, 9 am-noon EST with the poster presentations opening the day before.
If you have questions, please reply directly to Stacy Robinson at starrobi@iu.edu.
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The Global Health Network is excited to share some highlights from the second quarter of 2021, including their first ever virtual RAISE Symposium and the most recent Foundations in Global Health lecture.
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The book is the first volume of the Global Theological Ethics Series published by the Journal of Moral Theology. The volume is edited by Philip Landrigan and Andrea Vicini, SJ. Some essays in the collection are:
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The Triangle Global Health conference will explore innovative and adaptive approaches that have emerged in response to these inequities and challenges. How can we leverage the lessons learned throughout the pandemic, to prevent and better prepare for future pandemics, and tackle ongoing critical health needs and inequities? How can we reframe our global health guidelines, practices and policies in a changing world?
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Dr. Birx, former Response Coordinator during the Trump administration of the White House Covid-19 Task Force, served also as the Global Health Ambassador and Coordinator of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) between April 2014 and January 2021. She joins J. Stephen Morrison for an extended conversation on the accelerating changes surrounding us – the Delta variant surge, new discoveries regarding breakthrough infections among the vaccinated, continued vaccine hesitancy, and refusal that has prompted the declaration of “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.” As we speak, newly revised policies on masks and vaccinations are getting unveiled. What to make of this new phase, and where is it heading? We’ll need far higher testing and genomic sequencing, intensified local engagement, a big push on accelerating therapies, and thinking ahead on what the future mix of vaccines will look like.
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Online training course
21 September - 7 October 2021
Course coordinators: Dr. Neil Pearce, LSHTM and Dr. Michelle Turner, ISGlobal
The course will cover topics on: study design in occupational epidemiology, exposure assessment, risk assessment, types of bias including confounding and the use of Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs), and current debates on causality.
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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, contact Francis Montes at fmontes@uw.edu or go to https://aid.uw.edu/education/global-and-rural-health-fellowship
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The American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) is pleased to announce an exciting opportunity for faculty and students to share their work and ideas during the Catalyze 2022 Conference, March 3-5, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Proposals for educational breakout sessions should be submitted no later than September 13, 2021.
Proposals will be considered in the following categories: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Wellbeing, Faculty Professional Development, Research and Discovery, Education, Post-Pandemic Reorientation.
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A RANGE OF PRODUCTS THAT WILL HELP TO INCREASE VACCINE UPTAKE - FROM THE CORE GROUP
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Submission deadline: September 22, 2021, 5 pm (PT).
The John and Alice Tyler Prize is awarded for environmental science, health and energy conferring great benefit upon humanity. The Prize is endowed by gifts from the John and Alice Tyler Charitable Trusts, and awardees are chosen annually by the Executive Committee.
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The call for Postdoc-NeT-AI 9/2021 is out! The focus is on AI in Medicine.
Twice a year, the DAAD selects a group of outstanding postdoctoral researchers and experienced PhD candidates worldwide to participate in the Postdoctoral Networking Tour in Artificial Intelligence (Postdoc-NeT-AI, daad.de/ainet). The fellowship includes a Virtual Networking Week and a one-week travel stipend with plenty of opportunities to personally connect with leading researchers and research institutions from all over Germany. Fellows will also become part of the DAAD AInet Fellows and Alumni Network, thus expanding and strengthening the cooperation within the group and with the German research community.
Click here for the PDF-call.
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The One Health concept that human, animal, plant, environmental, and ecosystem health are linked provides a framework for examining and addressing complex health challenges. This framework can be represented as a multi-dimensional matrix that can be used as a tool to identify upstream drivers of disease potential in a concise, systematic, and comprehensive way. The matrix can involve up to four dimensions depending on users' needs. This paper describes and illustrates how the matrix tool might be used to facilitate systems thinking, enabling the development of effective and equitable public policies. Read the paper here.
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The Global Health & Development Essentials course is intended as an introduction and orientation to international development policies and practices. Participants will gain an improved understanding of the global health policy environment in low and lower middle income countries; learn about the global frameworks and key players providing sustained humanitarian assistance and response for global health and health systems; explore the dynamics and coordination of international disaster and pandemic response, and complexities of medical product donation programs within these contexts and existing frameworks. Read more here.
Fall Session: September 15-October 27
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Save the date for these two hour monthly sessions from February to September on Thursdays at 5 pm GMT and Fridays at 3:30 AM GMT. These webinar sessions will feature international experts, breakout sessions, and a global strategy developed to address the challenges of climate change.
Topics will be as follows:
August 26/27: Leadership in a new World: Planetary Pediatrics and One Health
September 23/24: COP 26 (UN Clmate Change Summit) and the Child Health Community: ensuring that equitable policies are adopted for children and youth
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World Field Epidemiology Day is a global movement to recognize and raise awareness of the vital role of field epidemiologists in protecting the health of populations, thus advancing global health security, and to advocate for increased investment in field epidemiology training, research, and professionals. We invite you and your organizations to join us in marking this day by sharing stories and information, planning events, and conducting outreach activities that highlight the impact of field epidemiologists on public health.
Please visit www.worldfieldepidemiologyday.org for information on how you and your organization can get involved. Feel free to share this message with your networks, including the communications and/or advocacy focal points at your organization.
Looking forward to marking this day with our global community!
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Job & Funding Opportunities
(see our new Jobs Board to see the latest listings)
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The Johns Hopkins International Injury Research Unit (JH-IIRU), within the Health Systems Program in the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, is seeking candidates for a Senior Research Associate or Assistant Scientist position to serve as Operations Manager for a new USAID-funded project, Learning, Acting and Building for Rehabilitation in Health Systems (ReLAB-HS).
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The Center for Global Health at the Perelman School of Medicine seeks candidates to serve as a Program Leader in the Penn Medicine Center for Excellence in Cardiology – Vietnam. Applicants must have a M.D or M.D./Ph.D. degree. Board certification in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease at a US-national or international level is strongly preferred. Candidates will be eligible for associated faculty positions at the University of Pennsylvania depending on qualifications. The primary responsibility of the position is to guide the education and clinical functions of the Center, which is jointly held by Penn and the Vinmec Health System. The position is based in Hanoi, Vietnam, however close linkage to Penn’s clinical cardiology program is essential.
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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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Vaccine Mandates Are Lawful, Effective and Based on Rock-Solid Science
Clear legal pathways exist to move the U.S. closer to herd immunity. Read here.
Biotechnology Greed is Prolonging the Pandmic
In the debate over vaccine patents, a flawed logic is being used to justify putting profits above saving lives. Read here.
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Global Health Journals & Newsletters |
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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