Global Health Symposium : An opportunity to converse about global health across Partners training programs

Mia S. DeSimone, MD, MPH

Resident in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital 

PGY 3

12/07/2019

The agenda for the day highlights the various
opportunities for conversations. 

It was inspiring to attend this year's Global Health Symposium sponsored by the Partners GME Center of Excellence in Global and Community Health. Meeting other trainees from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital who are passionate about global health was a wonderful way to spend a Saturday off from clinical duties. As a resident at such a large academic medical center and within the Partners-wide system, it's all too easy to feel siloed from others engaged in shared global health efforts.  It is opportunities like this one that provides us with a forum to think, discuss, network, and problem solve together, instead of alone, and serves as reminder that we are a part of such a vibrant and zealous community of champions of global health. While much of what I took away from the symposium was self-reflection and self-growth, there were several concrete steps that I took (and you can too):

1. I subscribed to the Physicians for Human Rights newsletter to receive regular updates from this organization that works at the intersection of medicine, science, and law to advocate for justice and universal human rights for all:  https://phr.org/

2. I subscribed to the Harvard Global Health Institute mailing list to stay connected to the wide and inter-disciplinary global health community at Harvard: https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/

3. I subscribed to the NIH Fogarty International Center listserv to learn about funding and grants available for global health initiatives: https://www.fic.nih.gov/Programs/Pages/scholars-fellows-global-health.aspx

I look forward to continuing to build my network and learn from others.