S15: 2:30-3:30
Review of Articles
Lead: Dr. Majid Sadigh
Method
Students will be divided into eight groups. Each group will be assigned an article in advance to review.
Then faculty will be presenting the articles, each for 6 minutes. A 12-minute Q&A will be held at the end of the session.
Objectives
Students will become familiar with diverse concepts in global health, including climate change, human impact on ecosystems, challenges in the decolonization of global health, moral values of health, harm of the reductive seduction, physicians as activists, the bats as reservoirs of certain viruses, and how to prevent pandemics.
Articles
1. Can an Artists' Collective in Africa Repair a Colonial Legacy?
By Alice Gregory New Yorker, July 18, 2022
“Its founders believe that they can use the tools of the Western art world to help heal the effects of more than a century of plunder.”
Faculty: Dr. Elina Mukhametshina
2. Linking Health Justice, Social Justice, a Climate Justice
Khadj Rouf, Tony Wainwright
The Lancet, The Planetary Health, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 01, 2020
“Linking health, social, and climate justice can lead to the transformative activism that is needed for a better, healthier, and fairer world for everyone. The question now is, are you willing to help?”
Faculty: Dr. Dilyara Nurkhametova
3. Covid-19’s Devastating Effect on Tuberculosis Care — A Path to Recovery
Madhukar Pai, M.D., Ph.D.,Tereza Kasaeva, M.D., Ph.D., and Soumya Swaminathan, M.D.
NEJM; April 21, 2022
We believe world leaders should commit to vaccinating people globally to help end the Covid-19 pandemic. They should also reaffirm their commitment to ending the tuberculosis epidemic, work harder to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, and address the social, environmental, and economic determinants of tuberculosis infection and mortality.
Faculty: Dr Swapnil Parve
4. The Reductive Seduction of the Other People's Problems
Courtney Martin
January 11, 2016
“If you’re young, privileged, and interested in creating a life of meaning, of course you’d be attracted to solving problems that seem urgent and readily solvable. Of course you’d want to apply for prestigious fellowships that mark you as an ambitious altruist among your peers. Of course you’d want to fly on planes to exotic locations with, importantly, exotic problems.”
Faculty: Wendi Cuscina
5. Virchow at 200 and Lown at 100 — Physicians as Activists
Salvatore Mangione, M.D., and Mark L. Tykocinski, M.D.; NEJM July 22, 2021
“German physician Rudolf Virchow, born 200 years ago this October, was so certain that disease was a reflection of societal failures that he claimed, “medicine is a social science, and politics nothing but medicine at a larger scale.” Virchow saw physicians as “natural attorneys of the poor” and viewed social problems as their responsibility, and he was willing to pay a price for his advocacy.”
Faculty: Mary Shah
6. Offline: The incontestable moral value of health
Richard Horton; Lancet, January 15, 2022
“…the crucial distinction this pandemic has revealed—that health and health research have a special moral importance to society, an importance that should demand zero tolerance to any barrier limiting access to healthcare and health information.”
Faculty: Dr. Bulat Ziganshin
7. Africa is bringing vaccine manufacturing home
Editorial, Nature 09 February 2022
“A major milestone was reached last week when scientists in South Africa reproduced Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine. COVID-19 patents must now be shared.”
Faculty: Dr. Alex Kayongo
8. Want to prevent pandemics? Stop spillovers
Neil M. Vora, Lee Hannah, Susan Lieberman, Mariana M. Vale, Raina K. Plowright & Aaron S. Bernstein
Nature | Vol 605 | 19 May 2022
“Decision-makers discussing landmark agreements on health and biodiversity must include four actions to reduce the risk of animals and people exchanging viruses.”
Faculty: Dr. Duy Khoa Duong