Seminars and Speaker Series

Each week during the academic year, Yale offers a variety of seminars and speakers focused on diverse global health topics for students, faculty and the general public.  Please also visit the global health calendar and sign up for the Global Minds newsletter to find these and other related events.  To submit an event for consideration, please e-mail GHI@yale.edu.

Global Health Seminar

The Global Health Seminar is a year-long, weekly elective course intended for students in the health professions to develop an understanding of key aspects of global health research and practice. It features faculty from across the health professional schools and other global health experts from around the world. Over the course of the 2011 – 2012 year, lectures will focus on: global health history, architecture and financing, non-communicable diseases, bioethics and global health technologies.  

The seminar is open to all students and the general public.  It meets weekly during the academic year on Monday nights from 5:30-7:30pm at the Anlyan Center (TAC) on Yale's campus.   Click here for more details.  Please contact Kwaku Ayebi-Awuah, YSPH GH Concentration program manager, for further details. 

Global Mental Health Elective

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 conduct this in an informal and social setting geared for trainees and members of the Yale community at all levels, providing 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. This is designed to promote networking, idea sharing, and information about possible future projects. 

The elective is open to all members of the Yale community. It meets bimonthly during the acadmic year on Wednesday's from 4:00-5:30pm at CT Mental Health Center.  Click here for their current schedule.  Please contact Carla Marienfeld for more information.  Click here for more information on the Global Mental Health Program.

Global Health Research-in-Progress Working Group  

The GHI sponsors a monthly Global Health Research-in Progress Working Group that meets at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. This Working Group promotes interdisciplinary research by bringing together faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and students from across the university to discuss ongoing research and to plan new research in specific topic areas. Each year since 2009, professors, fellows and research scientists have presented their research in progress, including faculty from Philosophy, Anthropology, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. An average of 21 people attend each meeting, representing the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Medicine. More than one hundred people have been added to the Working Group’s mailing list. Speakers have received feedback on their research and are using the feedback to write their next grant proposals. The working group continues with speakers from Economics, Psychiatry, and other schools throughout the University. Emily Cherlin, PhD, Research Associate at the Yale School of Public Health, coordinates the Working Group.

The group is open to faculty and post-docs. It meets monthly on Tuesday from 12:00-1:00pm in Luce Hall.   Please contact Emily Cherlin for further details.

The Tropical Medicine Course

The Tropical Medicine Course is a case-based seminar course designed for physician associates (PA), nursing, epidemiology and public health (EPH), medical students and residents interested in tropical medicine. The goals are to provide the knowledge base and tools for diagnosis and treatment of tropical diseases and common conditions encountered in developing countries. This course will help prepare students and residents for rotations abroad, and provide a forum for interactive discussions of the diseases that pose unique challenges in tropical and resource-limited settings.  The sessions will be a mixture of didactic sessions presented by experts in the field and interactive resident-student presentations. Presentations will focus on clinical presentation and management, as well as epidemiology and public health management efforts.

The course is for professional health students and residents.  It meets biweekly on Thursday evenings, from 5:30 to 6:30pm.  Those with access to the Yale V2 website can subscribe to the class and receive updates about seminars and specific readings related to the upcoming presentations.  After logging into the V2 website, click on 'membership,' search for 'Tropical Medicine,' and then subscribe.  Those without access to the Yale V2 website are more than welcome to attend and are not required to register.  Please contact Megan McInnis for further details.

African Health Professionals Interest Group (AHPIG)

AHPIG was founded in 2006 as an informal forum to discuss health care issues in Africa. The group currently comprises of graduate students in the Nursing, Public health and the Medical Schools at Yale as well as Fellows and Residents in the Yale New Haven area. In the past, we’ve organized panels as part of the annual AIDS Week effort, medical supplies drives to various hospitals in Nigeria and Ghana, in addition to journal club meetings and research mixers with global health faculty. This year will be starting off with series of journal clubs that will focus on global health systems, healthcare workforce and the African Diaspora, as well as current brain drain reversal efforts.

The group is open to the public.  It meets on the last Friday of every month in the Steiner Room at 6pm.  Please contact Oluwarotimi Okunade for more information.

GHLI Exchange

The Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) Exchange convenes an informal interdisciplinary forum with Yale students, faculty, staff and friends for the collective exploration of your NGO’s development and/or operations.   GHLI Exchange encourages NGO's that would benefit from the forum to contact them about presenting.

The events are open to students and the general public. The forums are scheduled for an hour once a month during the academic year.   Please contact Rachelle Alpern, GHLI Reserach Assistant, for more information. 

Global Health Spotlight Series

The Global Health Spotlight Series is a venue for Yale students and faculty to learn from global health leaders. Students are encouraged to engage with invited speakers to enhance their global health studies and explore career opportunities.

Please contact Kwaku Ayebi-Awuah, GHLI program manager, for further details.

Related Seminars

Social Policy Lecture Series by the Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy - many of their speakers are working in global health and this series includes lectures on hot topics in international human development.

Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium Series on Middle Eastern Environments & Ecologies.

Yale Himalaya Initiative Seminar Series - topics include environmental sustainability, global health, religion, and more.

Brown Bag Lunch Series by the Council on African Studies - include lectures and discussions on global health, gender issues and refugee policy.

"Violence and Health" reading group with Professors Kaveh Khoshnood from the Yale School of Public Health and Bandy Lee from the Yale School of Medicine.