A Message from the Executive Director | | |
Dear Colleague,
We are immensely grateful to everyone who attended, presented, spoke, organized, or sponsored CUGH2026. Virtual meetings have their benefits but meeting in person is invaluable, particularly in these unstable times. We listened carefully to your suggestions and immediately after the conference we set to work actively collaborating with colleagues from around the world to implement as many as we can.
Semafor’s World Economy Forum took place in Washington, DC the week after our meeting. Over 500 CEOs from some of the world’s biggest companies were there. It was a superb opportunity to listen to them and share what CUGH and our members are doing to improve health and environmental outcomes which are critically important to having a strong workforce and a robust economy.
Co-chaired by CUGH Board Member, Dr. Malabika Sarker, and Prince Mahidol University, a new Asian Society for Implementation Science was created in Bangkok. I provided a keynote address on how global health can help address the threats before us. At the NIH ECHO Symposium, CUGH showcased work by its members to improve child health. I gave the Annual Holloway Lecture in Delaware on Improving Global Health Security, a keynote address in Waterloo, Ontario at McMaster University on how global health can build forward, and I gave Grand Rounds at the University of Vermont. We attended the World Health Assembly in Geneva to: continue our collaboration with the WHO and partners to improve Emergency, Critical, and Operative Care; create a new Nursing Working Group; advance planetary health solutions with France’s One Sustainable Health Group; and much more. Dr. Ala Alwan built on the meeting he held at CUGH2026 and held another all day meeting at Oxford University on addressing NCDs.
Register below for our June 9th, 12:00pm-1:15pm EDT webinar on stopping the targeted killing of our health care colleagues in Lebanon and Palestine. Don't forget to check out our new website, upcoming events, and a new funding opportunity below!
Thank you for your ongoing collaboration with CUGH.
Keith
Keith Martin MD, PC
Executive Director, CUGH
| | CUGH2026 Recap & Resources | | |
We continue to reflect and build upon the momentum from our annual conference, held April 9–12, 2026 in Washington, DC, to address today’s urgent global health challenges. Please be sure to check out the resources from the event on our website here, including photos, poster presentations, session recordings, and more! Check back next month for our official conference report.
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For those who attended the conference and are not yet members of CUGH, you can find more information on CUGH membership and join here.
- For those who are already members, please be on the lookout for a request to update your institutional contact information soon.
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Registration and abstract submission is now open for CUGH2027! Please check out the newly launched website cughlima2027.org for more information. A “Friendship Program” that aims to support student participation by having Peruvian students host international students, will be added as the event approaches.
If your institution is interested in supporting the conference or participating in the exhibition hall, please contact exhibition@cughlima2027.org.
We hope to see you there!
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Register NOW! Webinar: June 9, 12-1:15pm EDT
How to Stop the Killing of Health Care
Workers in the Middle East
| CUGH's New Website is Live! | |
We are excited to announce our newly redesigned website launched on May 5th! The updated site includes a number of new enhancements that we will be highlighting over the next few weeks to provide more in-depth overviews to you.
Check out the recent Membership Experience spotlight here.
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Welcome Dr. Azita Emami to the
CUGH Board of Directors!
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Dr. Azita Emami is the Dean of the Yale School of Nursing. She is an active researcher, an international advocate for expanding nursing’s role in primary care, and a powerful voice for global equity of healthcare access.
Dean Emami serves as a trustee of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and on several professional boards and committees. She was a U.S. leader of the international Nursing Now initiative, a three-year global campaign (2018-2020) in collaboration with the International Council of Nurses and the World Health Organization that raised the visibility, status, and education opportunities of nurses worldwide. She also led the U.S. “Year of the Nurse and the Midwife” effort (2021), part of a global U.N. initiative.
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Partnership is key to the work of CUGH and the Secretariat has been busy participating in many external events over the last month that support our mission of advancing global health through education, research, service, and advocacy.
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May 1-3 | PEGASUS Institute 2026 Conference: CUGH’s Executive Director, Dr. Keith Martin, spoke on the global health international panel about reforming international development to impact global health, peace, and security.
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May 6 | NIH Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Symposium: CUGH was an exhibitor at this event where experts, including long time CUGH member and Board Member Phil Landrigan, spoke on how chemical exposures (particularly plastics and air quality) influence child health and development. We look forward to collaborating with the partners we met to see how CUGH can support the important work of translating chemical exposures research to inform programs, policy, and practice.
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Dr. Keith Martin (left), Elizabeth Hourani (center), and Ian Evasco (right)
at CUGH’s exhibitor table at the NIH ECHO Symposium
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May 7 | 63rd Annual William J. Holloway Infectious Disease Symposium: Dr. Martin delivered the keynote address at this year's symposium on "Strengthening Global Health Security in a World of Disarray."
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May 11 | Family Medicine Grand Rounds - University of Vermont: Dr. Martin spoke as part of the Khan Series: Impacting Domestic and Global Health Outcomes in a Changing Political Landscape.
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May 18-22 | Attended the World Health Assembly to continue CUGH's support for emergency, critical, and operative care; nursing; and advance a new WHO program to support science and combat misinformation.
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May 26-27 | Oxford University: Dr. Martin attended a two-day meeting with representatives from 25 organizations, following one at CUGH2026, to advance efforts to address NCDs.
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May 28-29 | Edinburgh University: With Dr. Liz Grant, Director of their Global Health Academy, Dr. Martin met with faculty across the university working in planetary health, pandemic prevention, public health, NCDs, innovation, and nursing.
| | Weekly Social Media Features | | We are showcasing the work of our committees and subcommittees on our social media platforms each week during May and June. Feel free to interact with these posts and pose any questions you may have. Check out the first three committee spotlight posts below and be on the lookout for communication to join various committees as they update their rosters for the year! | |
Call for Proposals: Pulitzer Center 2026
U.S. Civil Society Microgrants
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The Pulitzer Center is currently seeking proposals for microgrants ($2,000 - $4,000) that aim to support civil society organizations and groups in the United States to utilize Center-supported reporting as part of projects that contribute to a more informed and empowered community.
Projects are to be completed by early December 2026 and focus on one of the following issues:
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Climate and the environment, with a focus on U.S fisheries and fishing communities or climate and labor
- Information and Artificial Intelligence
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Global health, with specific focus on mental well-being or connections to the Global South
The deadline to apply is Monday, June 8th.
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Read the blog post on the
Pulitzer Center website about
their annual film festival
at CUGH2026 here!
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Hot Topics in Global Health 2026 Conference | Learn more about this exciting two-day hybrid event and register here. |
National Cancer Control Plan
Development Research Initiative
(NCCP DRIVE) Results Webinar
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Job Opportunity: University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston
| The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is recruiting for the position Program Manager Global Student Experiences (Study Abroad) - Office of the Provost. Please refer to the application page here for more information. | |
Job Opportunity: University of Texas
Medical Branch at Galveston
| The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is recruiting for the position Program Manager Global Student Experiences (Study Abroad) - Office of the Provost. Please refer to the application page here for more information. | | Call for Nominations: 2026 Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity | |
McGill University invites nominations for the Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity, recognizing global health practitioners with a sustained impact in underserved communities worldwide. Deadline: June 12, 2026 (11:59 PM EDT)
Learn more and submit a nomination here.
| | Global Call to Action for Health Innovation Scale-up by the Public Sector | This Call to Action outlines “asks” to governments and ecosystem partners to establish a sustainable, locally-owned process for scaling health innovations. | WHO EUREKA Innovation Hub | New Article: Towards Global Citizenship - Investigating and Measuring Empathy for the Other in Global Health Education | Article: Dr. Mike Reid on Resigning as Chief Science Officer at PEPFAR in the U.S. State Department | | Check out this recent post on the Substack, With & For, where Dr. Reid reflects on his decision to resign as Chief Science Officer at PEPFAR in the U.S. State Department. | | Article: Reopening the Humanitarian Corridor from Gaza to the West Bank & East Jerusalem for Medical Evaluation | | See the full article here. | |
Special Issue: Africa Health Journal | Please have a look at this special issue of the proceedings of the 76th ECSA Health Ministers Conference (HMC) - Theme: Enhancing Health Systems for Equity, Resilience and Sustainability. | | A global platform for key national and international policies, strategies, laws, service standards, evaluations, and other resources related to mental health, substance use, and suicide prevention. Learn more here. |
Partnership for Public Service
& FedSupport Program
| For public servants in the US who have lost their jobs, we have been finding sites that may be helpful to you: https://fedsupport.org/ | | In the US? Engage Your Congressperson. | | |
Engaging politicians is vital to affecting change. Contact your congressional representatives in their state and district offices. Call, write, or email your concerns and offer solutions. Personal calls matter.
- Communicate the economic and human impact of these policies on individuals, communities, and institutions—both in the U.S. and globally.
- Try to get your asks on TV and radio, and share informed commentaries on social media.
If you are in the US, you can find and contact your representatives here:
See this link to access useful resources that will help you to enhance your advocacy efforts.
| | Find and Fund Defunded Global Health Grants | | The website, Re-Fund Global Health, created by Dr. Megan Murray enables researchers to post their defunded grants and lists them online. We hope this site attracts funders to support these research efforts. | | |
Our listservs are open access and provide members of our network with the opportunity to share messages directly—without needing to route them through the CUGH Secretariat. We encourage thoughtful use of these listservs to maintain their value and effectiveness as a communication tool.
Becoming a listserv member is a great way to stay informed and connected with the global health community.
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