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June 16th, 2022
Dear Colleague,
I’m happy to share with you that planning is underway for our 2023 annual conference. The conference will take place in person in Washington, DC April 14th-16th with in-person satellite sessions on April 13th and virtual satellite sessions April 7th-9th. Our executive planning committee will include representatives from Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Maryland and the Association of Academic Health Centers. Additional members of this group will be announced shortly. Our website for the conference will go online towards the end of July. Please consider sending in your abstracts and panel proposals.
Please see our new Membership Center to learn more about the benefits enjoyed by CUGH members.
In this bulletin, you will see announcements for various events organized by CUGH’s members. This includes AFREhealth’s annual conference in Harare during August 2nd-4th. We are also pleased to announce that the portal to submit panels, abstracts and satellite sessions for the in-person Stellenbosch-CUGH global health conference in South Africa in October is open.
One of our objectives at CUGH is to expand our global network of academic institutions and enable our members to expand and deepen their connections to like-minded organizations. While speaking at the Geneva Health Forum on the environmental drivers of pandemics, I met with colleagues from a number of intergovernmental organizations including the WHO and other like-minded institutions. These meetings were very productive and in this newsletter you see resources such as access to a broad range of global health courses translated into 64 languages, and opportunities to participate in global health events throughout the year.
As always, please share this newsletter via your networks.
Best wishes,
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Keith Martin, MD, PC
Executive Director
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
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To achieve our desired impact, recommendations need to be integrated into implemented policies. Please help us do this by sharing the following open access plenaries, and satellite sessions from CUGH 2022.
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Interested in learning more about CUGH's work in 2021? CUGH's Annual Report for 2021 is now live!
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See CUGH's brand new Membership Center webpage to get the most out of your membership! It outlines your benefits and much more.
Please share this with your networks and encourage your institutional partners to join CUGH. We are stronger together.
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STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY-CUGH GLOBAL HEALTH CONFERENCE: OCT. 28-30 IN PERSON, OCT. 22-25 VIRTUAL STELLENBOSCH, SOUTH AFRICA
Catalysing Global Health Innovations for Sustainable Development: Hybrid Conference hosted by Stellenbosch University and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health
The 2022 SU-CUGH Global Health Conference, Catalysing Global Health Innovations for Sustainable Development, is now accepting submissions for panels, abstracts and satellite sessions. Interested applicants can access all relevant information and submit at this link: https://sucugh2022.co.za/submissions/
Please note the following abstract submission dates:
- Early Bird Submission Deadline: 7 July, 2022
- Final Submission Deadline: 4 August, 2022
- Results of application returned to authors: Generally within five weeks
- Conference registration completed for all accepted submissions: 8 September, 2022
- Full conference paper submission (after the event): 30 November, 2022
For Conference queries, please contact the Tygerberg International Secretariat at TIOinfo@sun.ac.za
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Every year, approximately 100,000 people are killed by gunshot and many more are injured. The United States accounts for 9% of global homicides due to firearms, yet has 4% percent of the world’s population. See CUGH's press release for gun safety regulations that will help to protect the public while enabling law-abiding citizens to own and possess firearms. To effect change, support those who will pass gun safety legislation.
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One out of every six deaths in 2019 were attributed to pollution, according to the new estimate Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health, published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Also see the ABC News story on the report with quotes from Dr. Phil Landrigan (co-lead author) and Dr. Keith Martin, a Commission member.
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Please visit the CUGH website to see the budget appropriation priorities that the ASPPH suggests for FY2023. Read here.
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Please see and share this session from the Geneva Health Forum, moderated by CUGH Executive Director Dr. Keith Martin with, Dr. Catherine Machalaba, Dr. Serge Morand, Dr. Isabella Eckerle, and Dr. Hernan Caceres-Escobar. The session focuses on the Environmental Drivers of Pandemics and what we can do to address them.
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Interested in applying to a PhD program? See this webinar recording, to learn about PhD program experiences from three global health professionals at various points in their careers. Two of the guest speakers are alumni of the PHI/CDC Global Health Fellowship Program! Listen to the webinar recording here.
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Commentaries from Low Resource Environments
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This publication from 2015 was a collective effort of the leading African Academies of Sciences at the time. It outlines a clear agenda made by African experts for the sustainable development of the continent.
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This publication was just released 3 months ago. It builds off of our work on ownership and sets out a framework for how to put into practice decolonization. Read it here.
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AFREhealth will host their 5th annual symposium August 2nd-4th, 2022. The symposium will focus on the Covid-19 pandemic and post-pandemic issues for health professions education, research and service delivery. Register now.
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Are you interested in learning more about monkeypox, health emergency management, infection prevention and control, or other critical health topics?
The World Health Organization offers more than 150 free online courses that can be accessed anytime, anywhere through its learning platform, OpenWHO.org. Courses are self-paced and can be completed all at once or in several sittings, with the opportunity to earn certificates and digital badges to share your achievements. 64 languages are currently available, with additional translations underway.
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Browse OpenWHO’s courses by language and topic here.
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Watch an introductory video about the platform here.
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Read OpenWHO’s latest newsletter here.
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Celebrate OpenWHO’s 5th anniversary, including a greeting from WHO Director-General Dr Tedros, here.
Help OpenWHO reach 7 million course enrolments – Join the online learning community for global health and start learning today!
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Please see the recently released fourth installment of CSIS documentary series: 'Ukraine: The Human Price of War'. The video is 11 minutes long and can be watched here:
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Catalyze 2022, AAVMC's Annual Meeting, is now available on-demand through AAVMC Learn! If you already registered, your access is included in your registration fee. If you missed Catalyze 2022 you now have the option to purchase on demand content through AAVMC Learn. The link to the course is here.
Please click here to access our support center if you have any questions regarding accessing this content.
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Please see this Op-Ed on the gun industry and gun violence published in The Hill. It exposes the role played by the global and domestic arms manufacturers on gun violence here in the US. The latest massacre of children in Texas was another rude and tragic awakening - it is time to act now.
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WHO GENERAL SUBMISSION AND STATEMENT FOR OPENING PLENARY FOR THE UNFCCC INTERSESSIONALS
Please see the general submission and the statement for the opening plenary from the World Health Organization regarding the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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ARTICLES ON THE IMPACT OF GREEN SPACES ON HUMAN HEALTH
Four articles from lead authors Prof. Tom Astell-Burt Univ. of Wollongong and Prof. Xiaoqi Feng Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
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This course explores the deep inequities in global health education, their origins, and strategies being used in both high-income countries, and middle- and low-income countries to decolonize global health education. This short-introductory course is self-paced, free, and open to the public. You can access the course on the online learning platform, http://learning.pih.org.
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The 13th International Conference on the Maternal & Child Health (MCH) Handbook promotes health equity and aims to bring the health of mothers and their children to the forefront as, too often, social barriers make mothers feel invisible. The primary objectives of this conference are to:
- Advocate for social cohesion through equitable holistic maternal and child care around the globe
- Promote the implementation of the MCH Handbook as a global standard tool
- Support the needs of underprivileged families, including refugees, migrants, and ethnic minorities
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The Annals of Global Health has released the first part of University of Maryland, Baltimore´s Special Collection on Decolonizing Global Health Education.
“… meaningful progress toward decolonization must come from within the institutions that built the field of global health in the first place,” write guest editors Carlos A. Faerron Guzmán and Virginia Rowthorn in their introduction.
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NIH is requesting information on approaches to promote greater equity in global health research, particularly research that engages scientists in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
NIH is actively seeking input from all interested stakeholders around the world and across all regions and socioeconomic designations, but especially those from LMICs. This includes members of the scientific community, trainees, academic institutions, the private sector, health professionals, professional societies, advocacy groups, as well as other interested members of the public.
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This episode of The Impossible State discusses the Covid-19 outbreak in North Korea, the impact of the pandemic on the unvaccinated country, and the road ahead amidst ongoing health and food crises worsened by an extreme lockdown.
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As the world strives to recover from a pandemic and the global economic ramifications caused by a single pathogen, it is worth pausing to re-examine, and more broadly understand, the global decision-making structure that exists to govern our relationship to all species—to nature and its biodiversity. In 2022, governments will decide how, or if, health is linked to a suite of global biodiversity goals for 2050. This policy primer introduces and distils some relevant debates.
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The Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenge: Scientific Advancements of Tomorrow invites innovators across the globe to submit potentially groundbreaking ideas or technologies that aim to enhance scientific progress across a range of focus areas. This will be the sixth in the series of annual Seoul Innovation QuickFire Challenges. Enter the challenge.
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CANADIAN LED INNOVATIONS IN ADDRESSING NEGLECTED TROPICAL DISEASES
Please see these neglected tropical disease resources from the University of British Columbia's Neglected Tropical Disease Institute:
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While short-term experiences in global health have the potential to be beneficial, a large proportion of these do not sustainably benefit the communities they intend to serve, may undermine local health systems, operate without appropriate licenses, go beyond their intended purposes, and may cause harm to patients. This declaration establishes strong guiding principles for ethical, effective, global health engagements.
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See the World Climate Foundation's Global Biosecurity Bulletin, including the announcement of the Global Biosecurity Summit Nov. 2, in Geneva (in-person & virtual). Participate in this collaboration of governments, businesses, and international organizations with various engagement opportunities throughout the year. Join in building impactful coalitions and partnerships for pandemic preparedness and health resilience.
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Jobs & Funding Opportunities
(see our new Jobs Board to see the latest listings)
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The Dean’s Office of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA invites applicants and nominations for the Director of the Global Health Program.
The Director oversees the global health education program and coordinates with global health research programs at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
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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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Urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatizing nomenclature for monkeypox virus
An increasing narrative in the media and amongst many scientists tries to link the present global outbreak to Africa or West Africa despite growing evidence that the origin of the outbreak was cross-continent, cryptic human transmission. Read here.
Heat, Dust, Fever
Read this article from ASAR for India published in Think Global Health. The authors write that India's climate adaptation plan for health should reflect regional and national needs. Read here.
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