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Check out this article by CFHI's Quito Medical Director! "Vaccines, for now, serve to prevent mortality in severe patients, not to decrease the transmission of the virus. The statement of the WHO group of Experts on Strategic Advice on Immunization (Sage) is based on public health principles, crossed by ethics and morals. It is complex to apply a fair distribution of this good, but human rights and equity must be considered and that is why Tedros Adhanom, president of the org...anization, says (Translated from Spanish)." Read the full article here: https://www.elcomercio.com//susana-alvear-distribucion-vac

Join Campus Compact for a session "For Us and the World We Inhabit: A Civics of Interdependence" by Dr. Eric Hartman on Friday, February 12, from 1 2:15 pm ET. "Across higher education and the K-12 system that feeds it, the illusion of independence is deep-rooted in our civic and educational imaginations. It infects our methodologies, our understanding of universities, and our capacities to comprehend our inexorable interconnectivity with the ideas and assumptions we hold. ...As the pandemic struck the United States in March of 2020, I worked with a team of community, civic, and global educators. We began to develop a toolkit to support students’ understanding of interconnectedness. We built online learning tools on civics of interdependence as a truer reflection of the human-ecological condition than existing approaches to civic and global education. " Learn more and Register here by February 5th, 2021: https://compact.org/for-us-and-the-world-we-inhabit-a-civ/

The Lancet - Series on Women’s and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings Check out all the articles within the series here: https://www.thelancet.com/series/conflict-health

Check out an article written by our partner, Carlos Faerron, published by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health! "The most egregious forms of power imbalance in global health practice (such as outright human rights violations for the sake of population control, including USAID-supported mass sterilizations campaigns in countries like Colombia, Brazil, and Kenya in the 1970s and 1980s) are for the most part, a thing of the past. But the persistence of neocolonial p...ractices still plagues our field. Whose voices are heard, what knowledge systems are valued, who sits at the decision-making table, and where most of the funds are held are present manifestations of how Global North vertical leadership remains rooted in perceived superiority." Check out the full article here: https://www.globalhealthnow.org//who-should-lead-global-he

If your institution is not yet permitting students to travel for global health electives, Child Family Health International (CFHI) is offering an alternative, new virtual course that will ensure that your students continue to experience meaningful intercultural learning from multiple perspectives! The virtual Global Health course is designed final-year health professions trainees, is comprised of synchronous (live) and asynchronous (self-paced) components, and offers the opp...ortunity to develop global health competencies including low resource clinical reasoning, health systems design, cross-cultural effectiveness, and much more. Join the webinar to learn more and have your questions answered before students begin exploring their options! Students Webinar: Jan 27th, 9:00 am PST/12:00 pm EST Register here: https://www.cfhi.org/webinars

Check out Child Family Health International (CFHI)'s newest promo video highlighting transformative global health experiences in 11 countries! Learn more about CFHI's approach to ethical and sustainable global health at www.cfhi.org.

Interested in Global Health? Join CUGH, Child Family Health International, University of Pittsburgh Center for Global Health and Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division for the 8th annual Reflection in Global Health Essay Contest! Trainees from undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate levels and GH faculty/practitioners are eligible to submit an essay to the contest. We strongly encourage essay submission by trainees and global health practitioners/educators from... low-middle income countries. Submissions are due by midnight ET on December 11, 2020. Decisions on winners and runner-ups will be announced on January 18, 2021. A select group of winners will be invited to read their essays at the Virtual 2021 CUGH Annual Conference. Additional essays will be invited to submit for publication in Reflection and Global Health: An Anthology. Find More Information here: https://www.cugh2021.org/reflectionessays

The Lancet: Stroke systems of care in low-income and middle-income countries: challenges and opportunities "The burden of stroke is higher in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) than in high-income countries and is rising. Even though there are global policies and guidelines for implementing stroke care, there are many challenges in setting up stroke services in LMICs. Despite these challenges, there are many models of stroke care available in LMICseg, multidisciplinary team care led by a stroke neurologist, specialist-led care by neurologists, physician-led care, hub and spoke models incorporating stroke telemedicine (ie, telestroke), and task sharing involving community health workers." Read the full article here: https://www.thelancet.com//PIIS0140-6736(20)3137/fulltext

Join CFHI for the "Faculty Development Workshop: Integrating Experiential Learning into Undergraduate Global and Public Health Programs & Courses" on Fridays in February (Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26) 2021! "Experiential learning is seen to be an important component of undergraduate Public Health and Global Health education programs. Institutions are often challenged with limited bandwidth, expertise, or partnerships to meet student demand. This Workshop allows faculty and administrators to develop experiential learning components to on-campus programs, with a focus on international and global community-based education." Find More Information here: https://www.cfhi.org/faculty-development-workshop-integrati

Want to gain expertise in Global Health, inter-professionalism, and cross-cultural care? CFHI presents the Virtual Global Health Elective series for inter-disciplinary health professions students (medical, PA, NP, allied health, residents, fellows) seeking access to Global Health professional development during the COVD-19 pandemic. Clinical practice in resource-constrained settings in LMICs requires unique approaches to diagnostics, differential diagnosis, physical exam, cri...tical thinking, and therapeutics. Based on Reasoning Without Resources a seminal text authored by Global Health veteran Dr. Gerald Paccione (Professor of Medicine, Einstein/Montefiore), trainees will undertake case-based trainings on a variety of disease states/presentations including communicable disease (including HIV, malaria, TB, schistosomiasis), non-communicable diseases (including DM, CHF, cancer), undifferentiated signs (such as fever, cough), and presentations rarely seen in HIC settings. Clinical faculty will lead trainees through the approach to HPI, physical exam, interpretation of labs/physical exam/diagnostics, differential diagnosis, and treatment approaches. Learn more about the Virtual Global Health Elective series and enroll here: https://www.cfhi.org/virtual-global-health-electives

Join the UT San Antonio International Relations Committee for a webinar, Walking the Talk of Global Health: Becoming a Professional for Health Equity, on November 11th from 12-1PM CST. Register here for the Zoom Event: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WrvhnNMGQte8PyVVoKKVZQ

Join Northwestern University's Institute for Global Health for a webinar: "Too Much, Too Crazy: A Pandemic, A Presidential Election and Global Health Reporting" on November 6th from 12-1pm CDT. "We will be joined by Brian W. Simpson and Dayna Kerecman Myers, editor-in-chief and managing editor of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Global Health NOW, to discuss global health reporting through not only an election year, but also during the COVID-19 pandemic." Register here: https://planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/569387

Global Health: Science and Practice: Routine Family Planning Data in the Low- and Middle-Income Country Context: A Synthesis of Findings From 17 Small Research Grant "Despite the recent attention focused on family planning in RHISs, the production of high-quality information sufficient for program planning, monitoring, advocacy, and other decision-making needs has proven difficult. Health care providers that do collect routine family planning data often find that the larger H...IS into which these data feed lacks the appropriate reporting or synthesis mechanisms; in other cases, the family planning data are of poor quality or are not collected consistently. Knowledge gaps related to routine family planning data include how to improve the quality of family planning data, how to address barriers to integrating family planning data in RHIS, and how to encourage analysis and use of the data to improve family planning outcomes." Read the full text here: https://www.ghspjournal.org//ea/2020/10/27/GHSP-D-20-00122

Free Professional (and personal) Development Opportunity! CFHI has co-created this learning and deepening tool with Haverford College Westmont College Amizade Interactivity Foundation Dickenson College and many others. Check out "Interdependence: Global Solidarity, Local Action"

Join Planetary Health Alliance for the 2021 Planetary Health Annual Meeting online from April 25-30, 2021! "Building on the momentum of the past three global convenings, this fourth Planetary Health Annual Meeting (PHAM) will dive into the strategies needed to achieve planetary health for all. We will come together as a growing community of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, entrepreneurs, students, and more, to design actionable strategies to bridge communities to achieve the Great Transition." Learn more at planetaryhealthannualmeeting.com