March_eMagazine Volume 39

February 2022 Volume 39 

NUVANCE HEALTH 

Global Health Program 

LARNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 

NUVANCE HEALTH AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT LARNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE 

Global Health eMagazine 

“The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all 

that is wrong with the world.” 

- Paul Farmer 

Editor; Majid Sadigh, MD 

Contributing Editor; Mitra Sadigh 

Creative Director; Amanda Wallace

OUR PEOPLE, 

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A NOTE FROM 

Majid Sadigh, MD 

Global Health 

eMagazine 

March 2022 

Reaffirmed in Our Commitment 

Written by 

Majid Sadigh, MD 

Director of the Nuvance Health / University of Vermont 

Larner College of Medicine (NH/UVMLCOM) Global Health 

Program and Trefz Endowed Chair in Global Health 

A Note from Dr. Sadigh 

Reflections on 2021 

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SARS COV-2 Pandemic 

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Condolences: Paul Farmer 

Art to Remind Us of 

Who We Can Be 

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The Global Health Program at Nuvance Health / University of 

Vermont Larner College of Medicine is defined by an unwavering 

commitment to bidirectional, mutually dependent partnerships 

based in friendship and respect. Our program supports partner 

students and faculty through capacity building, site development, 

educational scholarships, and long-term mentorship. We nurture 

“brain gain” by rallying behind individuals who plan to return home to implement changes that 

they believe will empower their own communities. We build partnerships in which all members and 

leaders are co-owners of the program, and international partner sites can empower one another 

through autonomous alliances. Our program demonstrates that partnerships founded in friendship, 

trust, and respect allow for enduring, further reaching and more meaningful change. 

In 2019, our program supported visits by international partner faculty and leaders for a total of 

209 weeks, and we continued to host international partners for two to five months of continuing 

education in clinical, education, and research skills as part of our Global Health Scholars Program, a 

capacity building initiative. Meanwhile our international partners supported our students, residents, 

fellows, and faculty for a total of 395 weeks, mostly for the six-week global health elective, through 

which 65 medical students from the University of Vermont, American University of the Caribbean, 

and Ross University School of Medicine rotated. 

Among many noteworthy components of the program are Global Health at Home, a group 

advocating for marginalized populations in the U.S., and Linde Healthcare Educators Without 

Borders and Almira Healthcare Scholars, a multi-connected web of talented individuals with a 

shared mission of building capacity on-the-ground in the areas of medical education, research, 

leadership, and clinical skills, and rooted in Global South-Global South collaboration. 

We also piloted new innovations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our “Bring the Field to the Zoom 

Class” initiative brings the patient’s environment to the virtual classroom, thereby familiarizing 

students with sociocultural aspects of medicine. These sessions begin with doctor-patient 

encounters and then follow patients to their residences. Another platform, “Virtual Open Forums 

with Friends and Colleagues Around the World”, discussing “hot topics,” followed by Q&A sessions 

with other partners, faculty, students, and community members, have allowed us to stay connected 

to our partners and communities. 

We also launched the COVID-19 Resource Center, featuring over 3000 biweekly summaries of the 

most up-to-date COVID-19 articles, which has been shared with our partners and reached over 

10,000 people globally. This resource aims to combat the COVID-19 “disinfodemic” which has led 

to distrust in science and exacerbated the digital divide for those lacking high-speed internet. 

Additionally, our weekly blog has received over 6,000 viewers from 102 countries and continues 

to feature stories from our partners through these turbulent times, while our monthly eMagazine 

serves as a resource for all things global health from arts and humanities to clinical medicine. 

Our program is led by eighteen members comprising the Executive Committee, four from the 

Global North and fourteen from the Global South, which together shape the program’s content, 

structure, and direction through consensus building. This program would not be standing without 

the friendship, trust, unique talents, and insights of each and every one of our partners. We have 

created something beautiful together and move forward reaffirmed in our commitment to amplify 

the voices of the underserved. 

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REFLECTIONS ON 2021 

The Sunset of 2021 

Written by Sister Jane Frances Nakafeero 

Director of St. Francis Naggalama Hospital 

It was the last day of my Spiritual Retreat as I was seated at 

my desk looking through the window. The sunset captured my 

attention and I watched it for some time, knowing that the 

evening daylight would soon disappear. The rays were still 

penetrating through the branches of the trees while the rustle of 

banana leaves danced gently in the whispering evening breeze. 

It looked beautiful yet fierce. I witnessed the beauty right before 

my eyes and the amazing colors as it made its way down home. 

I saw an ending of the day, a change, a transformation and a 

promise of a new dawn. 

The ending was the reflection of the year past while the transformation and change were the fruits 

of time spent in reflection during the days of prayer. The new dawn was the year 2022. 



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2021 began in hope with New Year celebrations and resolutions before the COVID-19 pandemic 

swiftly continued its threatening of the whole world. We moved around with faces masked, 

sanitizers in our pockets, spaced apart and hands washed again and again. The pandemic was 

cruel, bringing restrictions that we all came to know: curfews, bans on public transport, closure 

of schools, piling debts, emerging mental health issues, fatigue, exhaustion, stress, pending staff 

salaries, bomb scares, with operational and fixed costs glaring at us straight in the face. Loved 

ones became sick and some died. Indeed, a call for support echoed on the horizon, generously 

tapping our tears and bringing us to our knees. 

As the sunset reflects the various patterns of life, one needs time for comfort, rest, reflection, and 

energy for a new beginning. The sun must set to bring the promise of a new dawn, a new hope, and 

tranquility. I reflected on the true meaning of a fresh start that every sunrise of 2022 would bring. A 

new page to be written. A new gift to refine my soul. 

Planning a new start, I realized that within each of us is the potential to live with excellence and 

determination to influence those around us in ways that make a positive difference and a yearning 

for peace. 

It is time to dare to begin again, to lock arms and hearts in taking up the tasks, impossible though 

it may seem, to make ourselves whole again. We must remind ourselves that the road to success 

is almost always under construction. Within each of us is a deepening for personal and global 

transformation that will lead to search for meaning in both arenas. 

There must be a wrestling with existential questions of what is mine to do and what is mine to be. 

It is only then that I shall be fully immersed in the Supreme power of the God Almighty who invited 

me away for the Spiritual Retreat. With the sunset gone, the reflection of a new beginning and 

atmosphere of the sunrise awakens my senses to search for ways to re-think, re-plan, re-group, 

and recover. While the continuous nurturing of the spirit and centering of my soul will, like flowers 

leave part of the fragrance in the hand that bestows them, I must acknowledge the Giver. 

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Promises 

Written by Stephen Scholand, MD 

Associate Director of NH/UVMLCOM Global Health Program 

I held her heart in my hands. 

It seemed strong, it seemed healthy. 

It was a deep red, maroon color - saturated now in 

formaldehyde. 

The pathologist, an ancient figure, with bone-like hands 

pointed to the heart valves. 

His sharply curved knife, of a faded blue steel, had a 

worn wooden handle. It must have been used for centuries 

here in the basement of this hospital, this granite tomb. 



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I peered closer and could see the clots of bacteria adherent 

to the valves. 

“Vegetations” we called them. 

Those rubbery clots and filaments would break off into 

the circulation – wreaking destruction in the end organs. 

Her cause of death was due to infectious endocarditis 

from Staphylococcus aureus. 

She had said she wanted to live. 

She had promised me that she would give up drugs, if she 

could just get better. 

But the fevers kept coming, wave after wave of bacteria 

pulsed throughout her body. 

By injecting drugs, she had inadvertently inoculated 

these bacteria into her heart. 

It was too much for our therapy, the antibiotics could not 

clear the infection. 

Her ashen face was completely still, her violaceous lips 

were parted. 

Damn those drugs. 

Damn those Dark Lords who destroyed so many lives! 

A cold numbness enshrouded me. 

I would carry her memory on. 

I promised. 

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Stay Human 

Written by Mahsheed Khajavi, MD 

This pandemic, with its deep human consequences along with 

its divisive social and economic upheaval has drawn attention 

to the vulnerability of our critical healthcare system. 

Heightened stress levels have frayed emotions and the general 

collective fear has resulted in angry social media disputes, 

flaming emails, and raised voices in all venues of expression. 

During these times, it is often easier to accept some version of “thickening one’s skin” and becoming 

more mechanical and emotionally distant. 

I have heard this from colleagues and watched as many become so distant that they no longer 

derive any pleasure or meaning from the mission of medicine. 

Midway through 2021, I found myself in this same group. Waking up and thinking about getting 

through rather than getting into my day was the best I could achieve. I would fall out of my bed, 

go through the ritual of daily preparation, drive with my NPR station discussing SARS-CoV-2, and 

tune out. 



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I would walk into the hospital with a census of 45 patients, the majority of whom had respiratory 

failure from COVID-19 multifocal pneumonia. Returning home after 16 or 18 hours, I would skim JAMA 

and NEJM for any new reports or changes in guideline-directed therapy. 

Becoming less and less present with those around me, the idea of putting my backpack on and 

going for a walkabout was the most satisfying desire. 

I thought back to my years of medical school and training. The advice, sometimes implicit and 

sometimes overt, was that as a physician I had to develop emotional distance. Otherwise, I would 

be utterly overwhelmed and unable to complete my duties. 

I remember an attending telling me “you will lose your intellectual acumen if you take these patients 

home with you.” This was in Atlanta during the early AIDS epidemic. This was the time when Grady 

Hospital placed eight patients in each room on the AIDS floor, the vast majority of whom were 

emaciated and unable to stand without assistance. 

I remember quietly condemning this philosophy. Although I could not articulate my understanding 

then, I believe that on some level there was an innate and intuitive knowledge that without empathy, 

both patients and caretakers would be compromised. 

Twenty-seven years later I found myself becoming the person I had so easily condemned. I told 

myself to “toughen up” if I did not want to end up on the shower floor sobbing each night. I convinced 

myself that creating an emotional barrier would help me continue to work in a clinical atmosphere 

that, up until this point, I had never experienced. 

I could not have been more misguided. I can’t say when or how I lost myself and truthfully, I can’t 

really say when I came back. 

I think part of my return came after reading an article on physician burnout. The article noted that 

about half of all physicians reported burnout last year, highest among those who worked in the 

hospital and intensive care units. 

The article discussed the fact that burnout caused emotional distancing and that the cudgel of 

“emotional weakness” was a long and ingrained tenant of medicine. 

And somehow, I realized that demanding “toughness” only resulted in my inability to experience the 

full range of emotions necessary to connect with my patients. 

I had this backwards. It was not burnout which caused my lack of empathy. It was my deliberate 

decision to distance myself (in order, in some bizarre way of thinking, to keep myself intact) which 

had caused my burnout. 

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Yes, lack of sleep and erratic days are difficult. Yes, having such a large-scale lack of knowledge is 

difficult. Yet this was the case as an intern and I certainly never felt shut down. 

It is (fortunately) futile to believe that as physicians, we can be impervious to emotions. Perhaps 

our burnout is from the mistaken notion that we need to continually desensitize and ultimately 

disengage. 

This past year has been long, arduous, often overwhelming and unsettling. 

But I am getting back into my day. I have learned that by maintaining my ability to feel-especially 

that which is most difficult and painful- allows me to stay human and maintain my own self-care 

as well as meaning in my work and mission. 



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How Life Has Been in the World of a Pandemic: 

Dispatch from Thailand 

Written by Atthayaporn Choomai, MD 

Walailak University School of Medicine, Thailand 

Since the COVID-19 outbreak in December 2019, daily life 

underwent significant change. Despite coming after the 

outbreaks in China, the U.S., and Europe, it has been very 

damaging. It brought our economy to a standstill and ultimate 

collapse while putting our healthcare system under severe strain. 

People suffered due to the lack of effective vaccines, policies for 

controlling the spread of disease, and facts about COVID-19. 

In May 2020, Thailand was in crisis. The disease overwhelmed us. People died at home in our 

capital Bangkok without knowing the cause of illness until after they died. Announcements were 

made to welcome city-dwellers back to their hometowns if they needed any healthcare provision, 

as the hospital situation in Bangkok had collapsed. Our hospital in Thasala received many more 

COVID-19 patients as a result, including from other provinces. 

Sadly, we lost hundreds of patients to COVID-19 during this time. Healthcare providers were 

overworked and exhausted. It took a heavy toll on us. Even non-COVID-19 infected patients had 

problems because of the strain on our hospital. 



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Nowadays, things have improved. Our immunization rate is close to 80%. In Thasala Hospital, cases 

have decreased despite the appearance of the Omicron variant. 

Things are slowly improving, including the economy. I believe we can weather this storm. We look 

forward to the prospect of welcoming tourists and global health colleagues from around the world 

to explore the beautiful landscape and culture of Thailand. 



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Work is in the Word 

Written by Saida Agliullina, MD 

Global Health Scholar and Assistant Professor at Kazan State 

Medical University, Russia Medical University, Russia 

For me, 2021 was a good year. If I recall it in one word, WORK is 

the word. 

Every day I WORK on myself and try to be a good mom. I read 

special information to pass it to my son in an accessible form. 

There are many dangers in our world. As a mother, the main 

person in my son’s life, I have to teach him how to react in certain 

situations and what to do to grow smart and healthy. 

At the university, we WORK very hard to teach our students and residents who help provide healthcare 

in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. We are still waiting for the end of the pandemic so 

that they can devote more time to learning, especially as there are still many unresolved problems 

in healthcare besides COVID-19. 



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Every day I WORK on myself and try to become a good specialist. There is a lot of good literature 

and online courses available now, so I have no problems getting reliable information. In 2021, I took 

several online courses on writing scientific articles. My first scientific article was published in 2016, 

and was followed by a dozen more publications. Looking back, I know the mistakes I made. My plan 

is to improve the quality of research planning and writing based on the results obtained. In 2022, 

I want to publish in an international magazine in English. I believe I will succeed because the goal 

has been set. I also took several online courses in English last year, and have developed the habit 

of studying English every day. I felt the result towards the end of the year as it became easier for 

me to teach classes with international students. 

Every day I WORK on myself and try to maintain my health. In 2021, I was examined by several 

doctors about conditions I was worried about. I’m glad everything is fine with me. My teeth were 

cured; thereby I eliminated the foci of chronic infection. Now I live with the understanding that health 

should be protected from a young age. I’m trying to convey this idea to my son so that I can be an 

example in protecting my own health. In 2021, I also acquired the habit of doing morning exercises 

every day. I monitor my diet, eating vegetables and fruits daily. I try to reduce the consumption of 

junk food. It’s a daily WORK, but I like it. 

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I Hope to See My Parents Soon 

Written by Albert Trondin, MD 

Neurosurgeon, San Carlos Clinical 

Hospital, Madrid, Spain 

These last two years were important for 

me because I finished my residency. I 

started working at night and just a few 

months ago became a part of the staff 

of the department. 

I enthusiastically look forward to working 

hard and continuing learning more and 

more. There is a long way to go! 

I’m pleased to see the pandemic is more 

or less under control here in Spain, and 

life returning to normal. Nonetheless I’m 

waiting for the borders to open so that 

I can see my parents soon. European 

countries’ travel restrictions are still 

not allowing Russian tourists with the 

Sputnik vaccine to enter Spain. 



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and perspectives as New Americans. 

Tuesday began with an Ethics in Global 

Health workshop, followed by a casebased 

learning session on Migrant 

Health, which included our partners 

at Chiricahua Community Health 

Centers, Inc. in Arizona, and Bridges to 

Health at UVM, offering perspectives 

from both the northern and southern 

borders. Tuesday afternoon we were 

delighted to welcome our partners 

from Zimbabwe and Uganda, first for 

an impactful session on Decolonizing 

Global Health and followed by casebased 

learning on the Approach to 

Tropical Diseases in resource-limited 

settings. 

Panel on decolonization of global health at Global 

Health Bridge, UVMLCOM 

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Global Health Bridge Week for the Class of 2023 

Written by Aurdree Frey, MPH 

Coordinator of the Global Health Program at UVMLCOM 

On January 31 through February 3, 2022, the Global Health Bridge course 

Andrea Green, MD 

was held for University of Vermont medical students in the class of 2023. 

This is a highly interactive course, with workshops Professor held of Pediatrics on many relevant 

topics, beginning with small group projects Director on of the the Global Global Burden of 

Health Program in the 

Disease and Priority setting on Monday morning. Monday afternoon 

Department of Pediatrics 

we welcomed guests from our New American at UVMLCOM community in Burlington 

for a Culture and Health session where students learned cultural 

humility strategies and heard from our guests about their experiences 

Child Health and the Gendered Impact of Global 

Health workshops started the day on Wednesday, 

followed by the Environmental Impact on 

Humanitarian and Migration Health in the afternoon 

during which students worked on a tabletop exercise 

using the UN Interagency Standing Committee’s 

cluster approach to humanitarian disasters. Thursday 

began with a Great Debate in which students were 

assigned to groups either for or against controversial 

topics such as genetically modified mosquitoes, how 

governments from the Global North should or should 

not intervene in emergencies in the Global South, 

and whether or not high-income countries should 

give COVID boosters while many in low- and middleincome 

countries still need a first dose. Next was 

a workshop on Human Trafficking which featured 

local experts in the field, and the week concluded 

with a very timely session on Pandemic response. 

The students were highly engaged and enthusiastic 

about the topics, making for an impactful and 

enjoyable week for all participants. 

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NURSING DIVISION 

Editor: 

Catherine Winkler, PhD, Nurse Practitioner - BC 

Written by 

Catherine Winkler, PhD, Nurse Practitioner - BC 

Director of the Nursing Division at the Nuvance Health Global 

Health Program, Nursing Division Editor 

What is Next After Covid? A Nurse’s Response 

The Nursing Division of the Global Health Department grew 

over the last year, building relationships with our colleagues 

in academia and in medicine. Further, we have expanded 

scholarship and research discussions to encompass Global 

North and South projects, education, and research. 



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This year, the nursing division together with the director explored opportunities that would contribute 

to global health work in the short-term given the constraints associated with COVID-19 as well as 

long-term projects that we plan to institute once COVID-19 infections decline and/or become less 

virulent. 

We had international authors contribute to the Global Health eMagazine on the nursing platform and 

shared their clinical experiences. We also have a women’s health blog supported by Sarah Cordisco, 

a student nurse from UVM that has created a shared space for women’s health conversations. 

Earlier this year, Linde awarded the Global Health Department a scholarship that extends over 

seven years named in honor of Anne Roby and supports two nursing students: one graduate and 

one undergraduate to travel with the medical team to one of our partner international locations. 

Currently, we are working closely with Western Connecticut State University (WCSU) to establish this 

global health scholarship and to develop a bidirectional education program. Through bidirectional 

education, established sustainability and longitudinal relationships the Global Health Department 

encourages our staff and students to become global health advocates. 

Several of the nurses have joined the Global Health Academy in preparation for teaching in their 

respective areas of expertise. In 2021, class content was developed for the ACCESS School in Uganda. 

The courses included Personal and Communal Health, Foundations of Nursing, and COVID-19 

Update. Plans will be made for additional courses or assistance with curriculum development in 

2022. Twelve modules were developed by Sarah on women’s health issues as well and are available 

online for all our associates to access. 

A global health steering committee formed in 2020 has expanded to become the Global Health 

Nurse Executive Committee in 2021 with members from the Global North and South as well as from 

academia and the Nuvance Healthcare system. We will conduct collaborative research in the areas 

of women’s health, COVID-19, E-Learning, and child development. Further areas of research will 

be added as we move forward together with students and their faculty on shared international 

projects. 

Additional plans for 2022 are finalization of the agreement between WCSU and Nuvance Health, 

a virtual Grand Rounds, additional writers to contribute to the global health magazine, and 

participation in research, education, and leadership projects. 

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A New Series: 

SARS-COV2 PANDEMIC AND US 

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A Nursing Professor’s Perspective in Teaching 

During a Pandemic 

Part 1 

Written by Monica Sousa Ed.D, ACNS-BC, APRN 

Professor of Nursing at Western Connecticut State University 



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I will always remember being in the meeting with faculty, the 

department of nursing chair, and the dean on Wednesday, March 

11, 2020 when we discussed how this new virus that seemed so 

far away from us was now in our backyard. We tried to think 

of scenarios of what might be happening, how we would meet 

clinical hour requirements if we had to go virtual, what faculty 

might need to teach online, what equipment would be required, 

and the resources students might need to learn in the virtual 

environment. At the time we had no idea what a long rough road was ahead of us. Two days later, 

our university along with all the schools in our area closed. The anxiety of not knowing what was 

happening loomed large, as did the fear of getting sick and wondering what I would do if any of 

my family members contracted COVID-19. 

I do not think I slept that weekend. We thought that since the following week was spring break 

we would isolate for the week and be back the next week. However, before the weekend had 

ended, we received a flood of emails that the university was going virtual for the remainder of the 

semester. The anxiety, worry, and fear intensified tremendously. So many questions raced through 

my head constantly. How was I going to prepare myself and my children during this chaotic time? 

How was I going to educate nursing students in their last two months of school before graduation 

and prepare them to take their state board nursing exam while teaching online? How was I going to 

be there for my students and colleagues? How do I plan for something I have never experienced? 

Over spring break, I went to campus to bring everything I could think of home that I would or could 

need for class, committee meetings, and projects I had been working on. I had no idea exactly 

what I needed but figured I might as well bring everything just in case. It was an eerie feeling to 

walk onto campus. It was like a ghost town with a strange and unsettling vibe. I wondered when I 

would see students back in the classroom and have meetings with colleagues in the same room. 

I went home to figure out a plan to manage everything. At home, I had to help my two young 

daughters with their online schooling, find a babysitter to come to the house so I could work, and 

figure out how to get groceries and household essentials. For work, I had to think about how to 

convert all class materials to the online environment, prepare graduating nursing students to enter 

the profession in the middle of a pandemic, and provide support to students as they struggled with 

a mode of education they did not sign up for or prepare for. So many balls up in the air and I just 

prayed that they would fall in line eventually. 

I met with faculty via video conferencing to discuss our next steps and how to move coursework 

to the online environment. The university was great at providing resources and training regarding 

teaching in the online environment. The nursing department was extremely fortunate to have most 

of the faculty using the learning management system (i.e., Blackboard) regularly for our classes. 

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Blackboard was used to post lecture PowerPoints, class resources, 

assignments, discussion questions, etc. It was primarily a place to house course material and submit 

assignments. Due to many factors the university decided that courses would be asynchronous. This 

meant students and faculty did not meet at a regularly scheduled time. Lecture material would be 

posted, and assignments would be submitted online by the due date. 

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A Nursing Students’s Perspective During a 

Pandemic 

Written by Sarah Cordisco 

Senior Nursing Student at the University of Vermont 

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted my college 

education. As a senior nursing student, I am disappointed that 

it has had such a profound impact on my education and new 

career. The pandemic that created staffing shortages, unsafe 

nursing assignments, and an unheard of number of deaths, while 

revealing the many holes in our healthcare system. It has entirely 

shifted my view of nursing. 

The expected feelings of anxiety and excitement that come with starting a career, have become 

muddied with worsening fears and worries about the future state of health care, staff safety, and 

patient safety. The burnout healthcare workers are facing is unlike any before and it is disheartening 

that I need to consider this in myself before I have even completed my education. It becomes 

depressing to see nurses in person, and on social media express their feelings of hopelessness and 

despair over the state of our current health system. These feelings are reflected in how our current 

nursing leaders and mentors teach us students, how they provide patient care, and how they treat 

those around them. 



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I have yet to start my official position as an RN, however, I had been working as a resident care 

assistant caring for patients with Alzheimer’s while in school. During the first wave, I had first hand 

experience with death, illness, staffing shortages, and serious health concerns. In many ways, I 

already feel the burnout. The extra stress created by the pandemic has caused many of my peers 

to question the field they have chosen. At one point I even questioned it. 

What I learned about nursing at the beginning of college has been completely altered to fit 

pandemic nursing. We have had to change how we learn and practice nursing considering a whole 

different dimension. Like other college students, the pandemic forced me to learn in a remote 

capacity. While professors did the best they could, online classes were not nearly as rich as in 

person. Zooming into class created massive issues. There were constant tech problems, and I found 

it incredibly difficult to concentrate and stay focused. More difficulties arose when we had group 

projects and exams. This made my junior year of college even more difficult than it already was. 

I find it hard to feel prepared for my future job, as I am entering a profession during an unprecedented 

time. I’ve had to come to terms with the fact that my professors cannot prepare me for this, as they 

have not experienced it themselves. They have tried to give me the education and experience to 

be a nurse, but no one was prepared to be a nurse in a pandemic. 

Despite all this, I can say I have learned a lot from experiencing a pandemic. I have learned how 

to be more adaptable, self-reliant, and resilient. I have gained skills and new ways of thinking that 

otherwise would have only happened with years of experience. All the pressure and changes I have 

dealt with, will make me a better nurse and my practice will benefit in the future. It can be hard to 

think about the future when you look at the world around you, but there is a future. We don’t know 

what it will look like, or how it will function, but it will be there. And hopefully, we will have made the 

changes necessary to better support our students, nurses and patients. 

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COVID-19: Reflections from a Russian Resident 

Physician 

Part 1 

Written by Aliya S. Zakirova, MD 

PGY-1, Primary Care, Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, 

Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation 

I first heard about COVID-19 at the Department of Infectious 

Diseases. It was Spring of 2019, and coincidentally we were taking 

a course on respiratory infections. The first cases of infection 

had appeared in China. At that time, it was difficult for us to 

imagine the scale of this infectious disease. We learned about 

the disease only through our teachers and mass media. We tried 

to find information about coronavirus diseases in textbooks, but 

there was almost none. 

At the end of February 2020, tourists from the “Diamond Princes” cruise liner were evacuated to 

Kazan from Tokyo, Japan. They were placed in separate isolation units at the infectious diseases 

hospital. This was our first encounter with COVID-19 patients and we were trained with the help of 

these cases. It was then I realized that the infection was at our doorstep. I was both curious about 

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After some time, the first imported cases began to appear throughout Russia. Hospitals began 

to prepare red zones, isolation wards, new triage zones, and train the medical and paramedical 

staff. The country was in lockdown (quarantine) and we moved to distance learning. The ease of 

online messengers and conferences provided us with virtual access to all colleagues without any 

exceptions, even those who, in other circumstances, we would never have invited to our home. It 

was very unusual and difficult for me to study remotely. We analyzed the theory, solved clinical 

cases, but we did not have the opportunity to communicate with live patients and there were not 

enough live patient discussions. 

The system of medical education in Russia 

is designed in a way that it allows third-year 

medical students to obtain a nursing certificate 

by taking special exams. I took this opportunity 

to learn more about all the diseases and 

develop skills in communicating with patients. 

Upon passing all the exams and obtaining the 

license, I started working in the department of 

medicine as a nurse. This allowed me to closely 

work with patients infected with COVID-19 and 

have a better understanding of the diseases 

as well as patients’ sufferings. This also helped 

hone my skills. I could boldly communicate 

with patients, felt confident, and learned to 

do many interventions, much faster and more 

accurately. I began to understand diseases 

and recognize them. Sometimes it was very 

interesting because there were differences 

between real life cases and theory. 

As the number of infected people increased, 

patients infected by SARS-Cov-2 began 

to appear in areas that were previously 

untouched. At first, it was not clear how to 

behave when meeting a friend or a colleague: 

A hug? A handshake? When it’s a close friend 

or a relative and you really want to hug, what 

should you do? Meet in-person or simply chat using a messenger? Where was this person before 

meeting you? Do they use hand sanitizer? Do they wash their hands? Is it okay to sit next to each 

other on a bench or just sit and maintain appropriate distance? Is it polite to ask if they are ill, or 

simply inquire about their health? What’s next? Plenty of questions with few answers. 


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I Am Still Trying to Catch up With My Academic 

Journey 

Part 1 

Written by Natukunda Ferguson 

Medical Student, MakCHS 

I am a third-year medical student at Makerere University, 

Uganda pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine and 

Surgery which is a five-year program. 

On the evening of March, 18, 2020 as I was seated in the library 

preparing for my immunology progressive exam that was due 

the following day, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced 

a one-month lockdown during the presidential address due 

to the COVID-19 pandemic. It targeted gathering places, 

schools and institutions of higher education inclusive. 

At that instant, I felt relieved that I was getting a short break from the hectic school routine to relax 

and prepare more extensively for forthcoming progressive and summative second-year, second 

semester exams. I also did not want to get infected with the coronavirus that made news all over 

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I packed my belongings that night andboarded the earliest Gateway bus from Kampala Capital 

City to my home district Ntungamo the following morning. I planned for the short holiday and 

used the first two weeks to rest before resuming revision the third week. I closely followed media 

updates as those who tested positive increased with each day that passed and by instinct, I felt 

that opening schools after one month would not be possible. 

As the month came to a close, the president addressed the nation again, pushing the lockdown 

for another twenty-one days. Extending the lockdown then became the order of the day. Fourteen 

days, twenty-one days, fourteen days again and so forth to the extent that it became a slogan that 

each time the president addressed the nation, the phrase “schools to remain closed for another 

twenty-one or so days” was never missed. With the consecutive extensions of the lockdown, I 

gradually lost hope of returning to school. COVID-19 cases continued to skyrocket which scared 

me as I could imagine the stigma of testing positive and being isolated from the people I love. The 

pace at which I was revising books kept on getting low, the home environment was unfavorable for 

studying and the zeal to keep up kept reducing. 

Two months down the road I completely lost the motivation to study and decided to find other 

ways of keeping busy and productive. I started reading novels, something I had never done in 

my entire life. It was boring at the start but got interesting along the way. I started with Stephen 

Covey’s Ten Habits of Highly Effective People and then read Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist which 

were recommendations from friends. I also became more involved in helping with housework, going 

to the garden and farms, and started a poultry rearing farm. I watched a few movies, the famous 

dance party on NBS television, and played board games with my siblings. 

After spending four months at home, the things that interested me earlier no longer did. Days 

seemed like weeks. I could clearly see that my medical career was at stake. I started feeling that I 

would not make a good doctor, and would be older by the time I finished school. The graduation 

date was moving further and further away. I could no longer see my plans of pursuing postgraduate 

studies, marrying, or making money coming true. 

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A Ugandan Student’s Education in the Foil of the 

COVID-19 Pandemic 

Part I 

Written by Abraham Ddungu Matovu 

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Medical Student, MakCHS 

I was in the second year of a five-year course to obtain a 

Bachelor’s degree of Medicine and Bachelor’s degree of Surgery 

when the president of Uganda officially aired on television 

and radio that our beloved country was under attack from an 

invisible enemy, one that our own gallant army could not defend 

us from; an enemy that required the populace to retreat from the 

battlefield in order to survive. The president, his excellency Yoweri 

Museveni, informed the country that this enemy’s behavior needed to be studied by our professional 

medical doctors in order to tackle it well. This enemy was the COVID-19 pandemic whose origins 

are reportedly traced to Wuhan City in China. He thus declared a nationwide lockdown on all 

political, social, and economic events on March 18, 2020. This meant that all learning institutions 

were paused to reduce the rate of disease spread. I left the university and headed home to go 

through the lockdown with my family. 



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There ensued a cantankerous period of uncertainty as an increased cumulative number of positive 

COVID-19 tests was reported every day and the death toll only grew higher with the country 

running short on medical equipment and drugs. This led to extension of lockdowns in bits by the 

president. It was like a drug prescription that he did not want to force down citizens’ throats, 

but rather administered it in periods of three weeks, four weeks, two months as per his scientific 

advisory judgment. I never got COVID-19 but many friends and families were devastated by the 

viral disease. We were kept out of school for a record seven months! I used this time to read books 

and venture into a few agribusinesses particularly, coffee and watermelon trading, which was an 

awesome experience. My watermelon business enabled people to access the craved vitamin C 

which boosted their immunity. As a medical student, I played a part in sensitizing people in my 

community of Sembabule district located in central Uganda about the Standard Operational 

Procedures including the wearing of face masks and social distancing. 

In October 2020, medical students were allowed back to university by the president as there was 

a need to train more soldiers for this war against COVID-19, and doctors were the soldiers. I was 

part of this team that reported to school in October 2020. My academic incarceration by the 

pandemic seemed to be finished. I was immediately ushered into a new online system of education 

which robbed the sweet touch of physical studies. We began Zoom lectures as practical sessions 

became increasingly inaccessible. Through this entire hustle and bustle, I was able to complete the 

interrupted second year of medical school. 



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Ukraine and the lessons of Alexander Herzen 

Written by Richard Horton 

Lancet March 05, 2022 

Scientists must work towards a more convergent and less 

divided world—for national as well as human security. 

Last week, WHO convened a forum to review lessons 

from research into COVID-19. My task was to identify 

the challenges to ensuring the best science was 

published as quickly as possible. The first challenge 

was that a global pandemic demanded a global 

science—an international network of scientists able 

to communicate freely with one another. A second 

challenge was that global science depends on global 

trust. And global trust depends on open collaboration 

with scientists in all countries. Scientists must build trust with 

other scientists, irrespective of their national origin. We must 

support one another in the face of often hostile political criticism 

to provide the most reliable evidence to decision makers. As Herzen wrote “an exclusive feeling 

of nationality is never productive of good”. Inadvertently isolating Russian scientists and health 

workers will be self-defeating. Scientists must work towards a more convergent and less divided 

world—for national as well as human security. 

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Paul Farmer, Pioneer of Global Health, Dies at 62 

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As a medical student, Dr. Farmer decided to build a clinic in Haiti. It grew into a vast network 

serving some of the world’s poorest communities. 

Paul Farmer, a physician, anthropologist and humanitarian who gained global acclaim for his work 

delivering high-quality health care to some of the world’s poorest people, died on Monday on the 

grounds of a hospital and university he had helped establish in Butaro, Rwanda. He was 62. 

The cause was an “acute cardiac event,” according to a statement by Partners in Health, the 

global public health organization that Dr. Farmer helped found. 

Dr. Farmer attracted public renown with “Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, 

a Man Who Would Cure the World,” a 2003 book by Tracy Kidder that described the extraordinary 

efforts he would make to care for patients, sometimes walking hours to their homes to ensure they 

were taking their medication. 

He was a practitioner of “social medicine,” arguing there was no point in treating patients for 

diseases only to send them back into the desperate circumstances that contributed to them in the 

first place. Illness, he said, has social roots and must be addressed through social structures. 

His work with Partners in Health significantly influenced public health strategies for responding to 

tuberculosis, H.I.V. and Ebola. During the AIDS crisis in Haiti, he went door to door to deliver antiviral 

medication, confounding many in the medical field who believed it would be impossible for poor 

rural people to survive the disease. 

Though he worked in the world of development, he often took a critical view of international aid, 

preferring to work with local providers and leaders. And he often lived among the people he was 

treating, moving his family to Rwanda and Haiti for extended periods. 

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Remembering Paul Farmer (1959-2022) 

The pioneer of global heath died on Feb. 21, 2022. He was 62. 

Obituary: Dr. Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, sought to bring high-quality health care to 

some of the world’s poorest people. 

‘Mountains Beyond Mountains’: The 2003 book by Tracy Kidder told Dr. Farmer’s life story. Read the 

first chapter here. 

His Writing: In “Fevers, Feuds and Diamonds,” Dr. Farmer examined the inequalities that worsened 

Ebola’s spread in West Africa in 2014. 



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Quotations from Paul Farmer 

“With rare exceptions, all of your most important achievements on this planet will come from 

working with others- or, in a word, partnership.” 

“If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have 

that right?” 

“If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.” 

“God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he’s not the one who’s supposed to divvy 

up the loot. . . You want to see where Christ crucified abides today? Go to where the poor are 

suffering and fighting back, and that’s where He is.” 

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ART TO REMIND US 

OF WHO WE CAN BE 

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Editor: Majid Sadigh 

Contributing Editor: Mitra Sadigh 

During times of confusion, tribulation, grief, uncertainty, and 

despair, the arts enliven us by reintegrating the disjointed 

pieces of ourselves and replenishing them with clarity and 

hope. The arts remind us of our individual and collective 

potential to grow, evolve, and transform. They remind us of 

what and who we can be and what we can create. In this 

new section, we bring you works of art that have moved and 

inspired us. We encourage you to also share works that have 

inspired you. 



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American Artscape 

There is no aspect of American life that hasn’t 

been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, from 

the ways we learn and work, to the ways we travel 

and shop, to the ways we interact with our very 

own families. And with a winter surge underway, 

recovery is still down the road. 

The arts, of course, are no exception to this 

situation. Nearly every element of the arts and 

culture landscape has changed since March, 

including how art is created, consumed, and 

monetized. The shuttering of venues has had a 

devastating economic effect: according to an 

Americans for the Arts survey, an estimated $14.6 

billion have been lost (and increasing every day), 

and more than 62,000 arts workers have been laid 

off. Another 50,000 have been furloughed, and a 

third of arts organizations have had to reduce the 

salaries of remaining staff. 


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Masked, socially distant audience members watch a 

performance of Twelfth Night 

Berkshire Theatre Group’s summer production 

of Godspell 

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In order to survive, artists and arts organizations have relied on the very ingenuity and innovation that 

fuel creativity in the first place. Digital spaces have become rife with experimentation, productions 

and events have been transformed for outdoor spaces, and the act of creative collaboration has 

sometimes demanded drastic measures (COVID bubbles anyone?). 

In this issue of American Artscape, we’ll look at the heartbreak and the silver linings, from how arts 

organizations across the country are faring, to how reopening plans are proceeding, to how the 

National Endowment for the Arts and our partners have worked together to strengthen the sector 

during this crisis. 

In the coming months, artists and arts organizations will continue to face tough decisions. But at 

the same time, we at the Arts Endowment are confident that the arts—an intrinsic part of human 

nature, and typically one of the nation’s most booming industries—will prove resilient and prevail. 

Creativity will not stop. Economic gains will eventually return. The show, as it’s said, will go on. 



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Cincinnati Ballet company members Jacqueline Damico 

Amador and Taylor Carrasco wear masks during class 

The Carp Who Would Not Quit by Reiko Ho and the HTY 

Ensemble retells traditional fables from Japan 

and Okinawa 

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A display of katsina dolls at the Museum of Northern Arizona’s Hopi Festival 

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ARTICLES OF THE MONTH 

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A pair of scholars confronts the pernicious role played by racism shaping our understanding of 

human differences. 

Biology Versus Bias 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

List of Questions 

Preface 

Introduction: What Are Race, Racism, and Human 

Variation? 

1. How Did Race Become Biological? 

2. Everything You Wanted to Know About Genetics 

and Race 

3. Everything You Wanted to Know About Racism 

4. Why Do Races Differ in Disease Incidence? 

5. Life History, Aging, and Mortality 

6. Athletics, Bodies, and Abilities 

7. Intelligence, Brains, and Behaviors 

8. Driving While Black and Other Deadly Realities 

of Institutional and Systemic Racism 

9. DNA and Ancestry Testing 

10. Race Names and “Race Mixing” 

11. A World Without Racism? 

Conclusions 

Notes 

Index 

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Racism, Not Race 

Interview with Joseph L. Graves JR. 

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ANNOUNCEMENTS 

HEALTHY PEOPLE, 

HEALTHY PLANET, 

SOCIAL JUSTICE 

VIRTUAL 

CONFERENCE 

MARCH 28 - APRIL 1, 2022 

Virtual Satellite Sessions: March 21-25 2022 



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Nuvance Health 

February 1: Global Health Bridge: Panel on decolonization of global health and presentation on 

cases from underserved communities. 

February 1: Zoom meeting with Dr. Swapnil Parve about his potential position at the Global Health 

Program. 

February 1: Debriefing telephone call with Dr. Catherine Winkler, Director of the Nursing Division 

at the Global Health Program. 

February 1: Zoom meeting with Wendi Cusciano, Manager of the Global Health Program, to discuss 

the fiscal budget and the contract with UVMLCOM. 

February 3: Discussion with Hamidah and Jamidah, Co-Directors of Linde Health Educators 

without Borders, on their responsibilities and selection of the first cohort of the LHEWB scholars. 



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February 3: Meeting with Dr. Swapnil Parve, Director of International Affairs, on establishing a 

virtual course on “how to teach and evaluate” in Russia and India. 

February 5: Meeting with Katrin Sadigh to go over the content of the videotape for CUGH. 

February 5: Meeting with Dr. Stephen Scholand to discuss his new role as course director for Global 

Health Bridge at Nuvance Health and as editor for the monthly clinical cases in the eMagazine. 

February 6: Meeting with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, Director of the Nuvance Health Global Health 

Electives Program for AUC/RUSM to discuss the content of the virtual course in global health for the 

second cohort based on feedback from previous students. 

February 6: Follow-up meeting with Mitra Sadigh in preparation for CUGH. 

February 6: Follow-up meeting with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, Director of Nuvance Health Global 

Health Electives Program for AUC/RUSM, and Dr. Swapnil Parve in preparation for CUGH and 

correspondence with IRB on research proposals. 

February 6: Discussion with Ray Mak on correspondence with IRB on research proposals. 

February 7: Weekly Touch Base meeting with Wendi Cuscina, Manager of the Global Health 

Program. 

February 7: Discussion with an OB/GYN faculty interested in global women’s health. 

February 8: Meeting with Wendi Cuscina to discuss details of the Nuvance Health Nursing student 

scholarships. 

February 8: Discussion with Amanda Wallace about videotapes for the annual debriefing meeting 

with the Trefz family. 

February 8: Follow-up meeting with Wendi Cuscina on MoUs and new recruitments. 

February 8: Zoom meeting with the three members of the foundation to discuss the objectives of 

Afghan Healthcare Scholars and talk about new initiatives in the Global Health Program. 

February 10: Follow-up discussion with Amanda Walace on videotapes for CUGH and other 

projects including the 2021 annual report. 

February 10: Discussion about Vietnamese Scholars with Dr. Robyn Scatena, Director of Global 

Health at Norwalk Hospital. 

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February 12: Discussion with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, Director of Nuvance Health Global Health 

Electives Program for AUC/RUSM, on the annual report, the virtual global health elective, opening 

of international sites to interested students, and IRB requirements. 

February 12: Discussion with Swapnil Parve on Jamidah/Hamidah’s proposals and IRB requirements. 

February 14: Dr. Sadigh spoke about the Global Health Program during the Nuvance Health 

Subsidiary Board Orientation Program. 

February 15: Weekly meeting with Wendi Cuscina, Manager of the Program, to discuss the 

challenges of recruitment of new faculty and J1 visas. 

February 15: Annual debriefing meeting with the emergency medicine scholars and leadership at 

MakCHS. 

February 15: Zoom meeting with Dr. Parve to discuss multiple issues including his current visa 

challenges and networking with international colleagues and friends. 

February 15: Zoom meeting with the Co-Directors of Linde Health Educators Without Borders in 

anticipation of inauguration of the Global Health Academy in September 2022. 

February 16: Dr. Steve Scholand, Dr. Rosen, and Wendi Cuscina had a Zoom meeting to learn 

about Global Health Bridge at Nuvance Health and the responsibilities of the course director. 



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February 16: Discussion of responsibilities of the Global Health Bridge course director at Nuvance 

Health with Dr. Scholand. 

February 17: Zoom meeting with Wendi Cuscina, the manager of the global health program, the 

members of the legal office of Danbury Hospital and Dr. Catherin Winkler, the director of the global 

health nursing division to discuss the scholarships for nursing students at Western Connecticut 

State University. 

February 17: Educational Zoom meeting with the members of IRB at Danbury Hospital and a few 

members of the global health program to learn more on the IRB requirements. 

February 22: Meeting with the leadership of the OB/GYN department of MakCHS and a faculty 

member from Nuvance Health to discuss the possibility of establishing a partnership in support of 

global women’s health. 

February 22: Meeting with Wendi Cuscina to discuss scholarships and other agenda. 

February 23: Discussion with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, Director of Nuvance Health Global Health 

Electives Program for AUC/RUSM, on research projects and reopening of international sites. 

February 23: Discussion with a medical student from RUSM on how to study the impact of the 

pandemic on students’ opinion of global health. 

February 24: Discussion with global health leadership at Yale and UCONN on logistic barriers in 

opening international sites to medical students and residents 

February 25: Zoom meeting with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, Director of Nuvance Health Global 

Health Electives Program for AUC/RUSM, to discuss the content of the 2021 AUC/RUSM Annual 

Report and review posters submitted to CUGH 

February 25: Discussion on strategic challenges in safely reopening the international sites for 

students, residents, and faculty with Audree Frey, Coordinator of the Global Health Program at 

UVMLCOM. 

February 26: Zoom meeting with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, Director of Nuvance Health Global 

Health Electives Program for AUC/RUSM, to discuss the content of the videotape for CUGH. 

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UVMLCOM 

January 31 - February 3: Global Health Bridge 

February 14: Global Health Leadership Team meeting 

February 18: Dr. McNamara/Dr. Kane/Audree meeting re: Chiricahua and other Director of Global 

Health for Family Medicine responsibilities & projects 

February 28: Global Health Leadership Team meeting 

March 14: Global Health Leadership Team meeting 

March 28: Global Health Leadership Team meeting 

AUC/RUSM 

February 6: Touch-base meeting with Dr. Elina Mukhametshina, Coordinator of the Global Health 

Program for AUC/RUSM 

February 16: Meetings with Svanjita Berry, Salwa Sadiq-Ali, and Amanda Herrera in preparation 

for the presentation at CUGH 

Online GH course: 



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February 7- 18: Course 3; 26 students (16 AUC, 10 RUSM) 

February 21- March 4: Course 4; 10 students (1 AUC, 9 RUSM) 

Two online courses in March: 

March 7 - 18 and March 21 - April 1 


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Announcements 

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Photos and Reflections 2021 

Global Health & the Arts 

Nuvance Health and UVMLCOM Global Health 

Website 


Nuvance Health and UVMLCOM Annual Report 2020 

AUC/RUSM Annual Report 2018 

Cases and Reflections from Mulago 

Climb for a Cause 2018 

Climb for a Cause 2019 

Ebola: Sequences on Light and Dark 

Ebola: Two Doctors Respond to the 2014 Ebola 

Epidemic in Liberia: A Personal Account 

Global Health Annual Reports 

Global Health Conference 2019 Photos 

Global Health Conference 2019 Videos 

Global Health Conference 2019 Book 

Global Health Diaries and Newsletters 2015-2016 



Global Health Diaries and eMagazines 2018-2019 

Global Health eMagazines 2020-2021 

Global Health Diaries 2020-2021 

Global Health Reflections and Photos 2017 and 2018 

Global Health Reflections and Photos 2019 

Ethical Dilemmas book 

Global Health Program Website 

Global Health at WCHN Facebook 

Ho Chi Minh City and Cho Ray Hospital 

The Homestay Model of Global Health Program video 

Interviews 

A Connecticut Doctor in Africa, by journalist Mackenzie 

Riggs 

Majid Sadigh, MD Interview Regarding Ebola in Liberia 

(Video) 

My Heart Burns: Three Words Form a Memoir (Video) 

Two UVM Docs Combat Ebola in Liberia (Article) 

Kasensero Uganda 

Katanga video 

Nuvance/MakCHS Global Health Information Center 

Booklet 

Paraiso and the PAP Hospital 

Photographs from Uganda, by photojournalist Tyler 

Sizemore 

Presentations By Global Health Scholars 

Previous issues of the Global Health eMagazine 

Program Partners 

Publications 

Site Specific Information 

Tropical Medicine Booklets (101, and 202) 

Tropical Medicine Spanish 101 

Tropical Medicine Modules 

Tropical Medicine Courses 

The World of Global Health book 

The World of Global Health Video 

Words of Encouragement 

UVM Larner College of Medicine Blog 

Participant Guide in Global Health, Thailand 

Cho Ray International Student Handbook 

DRC Facing a New Normal 

Photos and Reflections 2019 

Coronavirus 2019 Important clinical considerations for 

Patients & Health care Providers 

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