Events

Global Health Journal Club

Our Global Health Journal Club provides our faculty, staff, and students the opportunity to read and discuss current publications, news and events related to the field of global health.  Sessions are held the second Friday of each month and open to all faculty, staff, students, and community members. Please check below for details on upcoming sessions.

Mark your calendars for the upcoming season of the Global Health Journal Club!  The dates are set, and articles for discussion will be posted in a timely manner.  All sessions are held from 12-1:00 PM. Bring your lunch, a friend, and join us!

2021-2022 Sessions

• Friday, September 10, 2021 – via Zoom
• Friday, October 8, 2021 – via Zoom
• Friday, November 12, 2021 – via Zoom
• Friday, January 7, 2021 – via Zoom
• Friday, February 11, 2021 – via Zoom
• Friday, March 11, 2021 – via Zoom
• Friday, April 8, 2021 – via Zoom

2020 – 2021 Sessions

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, all sessions will be conducted via Zoom (link to be provided in email publicity).

• Friday, September 11, 2020 – via Zoom
  ARTICLE: The Work of Philanthropy in Responding to COVID-19 and Addressing Inequality A New Foundation, Darren Walker JD – JAMA
  Student Leaders:  Elizabeth Ademuwagun, MSII & Samantha Driscoll, MSII
• Friday, October 9, 2020 – via Zoom
  ARTICLE: Psychosocial distress among unpaid community health workers in rural Ethiopia, Kenneth Maes et al. – Elsevier
  Student Leaders:  Glory Hughes and Lessly Hernandez MSIII
• Friday, November 13, 2020
• Friday, January 8, 2021
• Friday, February 12, 2021
• Friday, March 12, 2021
• Friday, April 9, 2021

2019 – 2020 Sessions

• Friday, September 13, 2019, ALTC 1.107
  ARTICLE: A group-based lifestyle intervention for diabetes prevention in low– and middle– income country:  implementation evaluation of the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program
  Student Leaders:  Aarushi Aggarwal (MSII), Amanda Groover (MSII) & Samiya Khan (MSII)
• Friday, October 11, 2019, ALTC 1.107
  ARTICLE:  Malaria eradication within a generation:  ambitious, achievable, and necessary
  Student Leaders:  Clarissa Meza (MSII), Siva Subramanian (MSII) & Greg Koneri (MSII)
• Friday, November 8, 2019, ALTC 1.107
  ARTICLE:  Global Elimination of Chronic Hepatitis
  Student Leaders:  Vanessa Trivino (MSII), Cindy Jiang (MSII) & Autumn Chidester (MSII)
• Friday, December 13, 2019, ALTC 2.202
  ARTICLE:  Outcomes of a Coaching-Based WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Program in India
  Student Leaders:  Minyoung Chung (MSII) & Stephanie Seale (MSII)
• Friday, January 10, 2020 – location ALTC 1.101
  ARTICLE:  The Impact of Paid Community Health Worker Deployment on Child Survival:  The Connect Randomized Cluster Trial in Rural Tanzania  
  Student Leaders:  Sidney Akabogu (MSII), Vir Goenka (MSII) & Nicholas Araujo de Hayden (MSII)
• Friday, February 28, 2020 – location ALTC 2.204
  ARTICLE:  A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Ebola Virus Disease Therapeutics
  Student Leaders:  Abhipsa Das (MSII), Dana Glaser (MSII) & Kirsten McLane (MSII)
• Friday, March 27, 2020 – via ZOOM
  ARTICLE:  Managing COVID-19 in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  Student Leaders:  Brandon Jessurun (MSII), Meredith Hosek (MSII), & Chase Ballard (MSII)

2018 – 2019 Sessions

• Friday, April 12, 2019, ALTC 1.105
  ARTICLE:  Type 2 Poliovirus Detection after Global Withdrawal of Trivalent Oral Vaccine
  Student Leaders:  Katie Jensen (MSII), Autumn Chidester (MSI), and Chase Ballard (MSI)
• Friday, October 12, 2018, LIB 2.028
  ARTICLE:  Micronutrient Sprinkles Reduce Anemia Among 9- to 24-Mo-Old Children when Delivered through an Integrated Health and Nutrition Program in Rural Haiti
  Student Leaders:  Nathanael Franks (MSII), Anisha Guda (MSII), & Radhika Mohan (MSII)
  
• Friday, November 9, 2018, LIB 2.028
  ARTICLE:  Effect of community health clubs on child diarrhoea in western Rwanda:  a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  Student Leaders:  Nimmy Thomas (MSII), Maria Benson (MSII), & Sejal Lahoti (MSII)
  
• NO DECEMBER JOURNAL CLUB
  
• Friday, January 11, 2019, ALTC 1.105
  ARTICLE:  Evidence-based recommendations for addressing mlnurition in health care:  an updated strategy from the FeedM.E. Global Study Group
  Student Leaders:  Duff Dean (MSII), Jordan Barton-Garcia (MSII), & Kinsey Dittmar (MSII)
  
• Friday, February 22, 2019, ALTC 1.105
  ARTICLE:  Toward the Cure of All Children with Cancer through Collaborative Efforts:  Pediatric Oncology as a Global Challenge
  Student Leaders:  Mackenzie Spaniol (MSII), Claudina Tami (MSII), & Jeremiah Gress (MSII)
  
• Friday, March 22, 2019, ALTC 1.105
  ARTICLE:  A pre-post study of a multi-country scale up of resuscitation training of facility birth attendants:  does Helping Babies Breathe training save lives?
  Student Leaders:  Lindsay Hartup (MSII), Avery Kester (MSII), & Andrew Jeffery (MSII)

Global Health in Action:  Notes from the Field

This presentation series provides our faculty, staff, students, and invited guests with the opportunity to showcase their past or current work in global health.  The pubic is welcome to attend all presentations.  Due to COVID-19 restrictions, NFTF presentations will be conducted via ZOOM.  

2020 – 2021 NOTES FROM THE FIELD PRESENTATION

• TBA

2019 – 2020 NOTES FROM THE FIELD PRESENTATION

• Wednesday, January 15, 2020, 12-1:00 PM, Briscoe Library 2.039/2.048
  Dina Tom, MD, MS, Asst. Prof., Dept. of Pediatrics, UT Health SA
  “TEACHING AND SERVICE THROUGH PERU MISSION 2019”