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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>August</strong> <strong>2022</strong><br />
Highlights<br />
Clinical Case of the Month<br />
Reflections<br />
Health Disparities Within Our<br />
Borders<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Art to Remind Us of Who We<br />
Can Be<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Among the Letters<br />
Congratulations<br />
Global Health Team<br />
Calendar<br />
Resources<br />
July 12: Discussion related to the structure and content of Global Health Bridge<br />
at Danbury Hospital in September with Dr. Steve Scholand, course director of<br />
Global Health Bridge at Nuvance Health<br />
July 12: Zoom meeting with Professor Nelson Sewankambo to review the content<br />
structure of the panel on colonization/decolonization of the global health<br />
education at UNGA in September<br />
July 12: In-person meeting with Dr. Behzad Habibi, a neurologist faculty, to discuss<br />
possibility of scholars in global health to rotate through the neurology department<br />
and his willingness to become a Global Health Academy faculty member<br />
July 13: In-person meeting with Dr. Habashi, a Global Health Academy faculty<br />
member, in preparation of his trip to Uganda<br />
July 13: Discussion with Dr. Robert Kalyesubula, founder and president of ACCESS,<br />
about the panel on colonization/decolonization of global health education at<br />
UNGA in September<br />
July 13: Discussion with Dr. Robert Jarrett, founder and president of Hearts<br />
Around the World, about inviting junior cardiologists from Vietnam and Dominican<br />
Republic to Danbury Hospital<br />
July 14: Brief in-person meeting with Ms. Grace Linhard and Ms. Adele Conner<br />
from the Nuvance Health Foundation to debrief Mr. Almira on future direction of<br />
the global health program<br />
July 14: Discussion with Dr. Swapnil Parve on the Global Health Academy and the<br />
role of the co-directors<br />
July 14: Follow-up meeting with Dr. Scholand, course director for Global Health<br />
Bridge, on the invited speakers for the course in September<br />
July 15: Zoom meeting with Dr. Hossein, a global health faculty member, to discuss<br />
an ongoing research project<br />
July 15: Zoom meeting with Professor Nelson Sewankabo in preparing a blueprint<br />
for the accepted proposed panel at UNGA in September<br />
July 16: Touch-base meeting with Dr. Parve on establishing a joint master’s degree<br />
in medical education<br />
July 17: Reviewing weekly reflections written by students in Uganda with Dr. Dilyara<br />
Nurkhametova<br />
July 18: Touch-base with Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova, assistant director of the<br />
Nuvance Health Global Health Program<br />
July 18: Telephone call with Professor Samuel Luboga to discuss the situation of<br />
our students and faculty in Kampala<br />
July 19: Update conversation with Dr. Simon Otim in respect to the current situation<br />
of the program’s students in Naggalama<br />
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