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  Feb. 13th to Feb. 26th, 2012  

Global Health Seminar

Mondays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm
N203 TAC, 300 Cedar St.
 
Feb. 13 & 20 - Women's Rights on a Local Scale; Panel & Small Group Discussions
The next two weeks will continue the second module of the course focused on advocacy
and activism in global health. Students, Sarah Jin, Meredith Camp and Kate Schedel, will
be leading the sessions in this module alongside faculty.  

For more information on the global health seminar and the full list of lecture topics for this
semester, click here.
Global Health Events
 
 
Global Mental Health Elective
Wednesdays (bimonthly), 4:00 - 5:30 pm
CT Mental Health Center, 34 Park St.

The Yale Global Mental Health Elective is a rotating bimonthly curriculum consisting of psychiatry faculty and staff presentations of their global mental health projects, resident presentations of on-going projects, guest speakers, and journal club presentations by residents with faculty discussion. The goal will be to promote networking, idea sharing, provide program participants opportunities to get to know colleagues with similar professional interests and to learn about the variety of global mental health activities within the Department of Psychiatry and elsewhere. The elective is open to all members of the Yale community.
 
Feb. 15 - "Refugee Mental Health" Ani Annamalai, M.D. 
 
Click here for the spring schedule.  Please contact Carla Marienfeld for more information.
 

BHUTAN: A Kingdom in the Clouds, “Looking beyond the Horizon”
February 20, 12:00 pm
103 LEPH, 60 College St. 

The Yale School of Public Health is hosting a special seminar with Nima Wangchuk, MBBS, MPH, National Coordinator, Bachelor of Public Health Degree Program and Lecturer, Royal Institute of Health Sciences in Thimphu, Bhutan. Dr. Wangchuk’s talk will broadly cover the following areas: Discovering a nation named BHUTAN; reaching the unreached through a revitalized primary health care investment; exploring opportunities for summer internship in bhutan and the essence of Gross National Happiness (GNH). For more information click here, or contact Kaveh Khoshnood. 


Tropical Medicine Course
Thursdays (biweekly), 5:30 - 6:30 pm

This case-based seminar course aims to provide the knowledge and tools for diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases and common conditions encountered in developing countries. Presentations will focus on clinical presentation and management, as well as epidemiology and public health management efforts.

Feb. 23 - "Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers" Albert Ko
Hope Auditorium, Yale School of Medicine, 315 Cedar St.

For more information, click here. 


Challenges and Opportunities in the Systems of Health
February 25, 09:00 - 11:00 am
101 Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.

This year the Yale Mexican Student Organization will host the “Convergencias,” a three-day conference bringing together Mexican students in the Northeast to discuss current and relevant topics related to Mexico's development. The second day of the conference will include a public panel session discussing challenges and opportunities in health systems. Panelists will include: health secretary of Mexico, Secretary Chertorivski; President of the Mexican Association of Private Hospitals, Ernesto Dieck; and Director of the Center for Health Systems Research of the National Institute of Public Health, Miguel Ángel González.

Click here for more information about the panelist and the conference.

Yale Contingent Confronts Mental Illness Stigma in Nigeria

Recent surveys indicate that nine of ten persons with mental disorders in Nigeria do not receive services. Despite a population of roughly 150 million, the country has few trained psychiatrists—roughly one psychiatrist for every million residents. In November 2011, a team of psychiatric professionals from Yale visited Nigeria to get a firsthand look at the challenges facing mental health care in this West African nation. During the visit, the team conducted basic psychiatric training for approximately 80 medical and nursing students at an academic medical center in the city of Owerri. A survey of Nigerian households identified the stigma associated with mental health and addiction as one of the biggest obstacles to care. Click here to read more.
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