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December 9th, 2022
Dear Colleague,
A few important updates. THE DEADLINE FOR CUGH 2023 SATELLITE SUBMISSIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 31. Submit a satellite workshop (virtual or in person) for CUGH 2023 next April in Washington, DC. Also, registration is now open for the World Health Summit Regional Meeting 2023, which will be held on April 13, at our conference. Take advantage of our lowest registration rates and discounted hotel rooms at www.cugh2023.org. In addition to the World Health Summit Regional Meeting, the AAHCI’s Global Innovation Forum will also take place at our conference. This is a first and is not to be missed.
In December, COP 15 will take place to address the biodiversity crisis. This is a crucial opportunity for the international community to address the interconnected environmental challenges that affect human and planetary security. What we do now will impact generations to come.
In this newsletter is a new opportunity to share with the US’ National Public Radio (NPR) which groups you think are neglected, marginalized, and voiceless. NPR will give some of them an opportunity to share their stories and shed light on their situation.
As always, this newsletter contains a wealth of information about our members, articles, reports, funding, and job opportunities. Please share it 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: December 31, 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 14-16, 2023.
Submission deadline is December 31, 2022.
Submit your video and learn more about the competition 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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AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE VOICE TO THE VOICELESS FROM NPR. WHO ARE THE VOICELESS OF THE WORLD TODAY?
Who would you nominate as one of the world’s “unheard communities” – facing a problem that does not get enough attention? Please be very specific and name a specific community in a specific location rather than an overarching category.
Send a brief description (200 to 500 words) naming a specific community in a specific location and explain why you believe they are not getting attention. Please include a contact in that community if you have one so that NPR can follow up. Please send your submissions by Monday, December 19 to goatsandsoda@npr.org, with the word “voiceless” in the subject line.
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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 toward 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 third annual Stanford Existential Risks Conference aims to take stock of the broad existential risk landscape. Stanford invites abstract submissions focused on the past, present, and future of X-risk studies. The meeting will take place in person April 21-22, with a welcome gathering on Thursday, April 20. All meals will be provided.
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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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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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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. 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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