The Global Health Interest Group has met six times over the academic year, beginning in July with an introductory talk on global health as an overview to all residents interested in global health.

In August, one of our global health faculty, Dr. Erica Bjornstad, gave Pediatric Grand Rounds on “Global Nephrology - Stories and Data from the Field”, which we all watched as a group then had a discussion afterwards. In October, we had a simulation session at the Children’s of Alabama simulation center, highlighting a low resource simulation that is designed to elicit the emotions of working in a lower resource setting. For our final meeting of 2021 in December, we had a talk and discussion on “Fever in the Returning Traveler”. To start off 2022, the interest group met in February for a talk given by Dr. Wally Carlo on global neonatology and again in April when Alyssa Pfister gave a talk on malnutrition. In addition to the interest group meetings, one of the third year PUGH Scholars, Dr. Amelia Schuyler, also led our quarterly Global Health Morning Report in September.  

We also had three social gatherings this academic year, starting in September to get to know one another and set goals and expectations for the year.  The next social gathering was in March 2022 to watch Bending the Arc and the other in May for a book club discussion of Mountains Beyond Mountains. The three PGY-1 PUGH Scholars participated in Helping Babies Breathe, a discussion on global health ethics, and additional hands-on global health education during their Injury Prevention and Advocacy week in late October. Since that week, they have been working to develop a project with the local immigrant community as a local-global advocacy project. They gave one talk via zoom in 2022.  Additionally, we had one resident, Dr. Vida Laudarji, participate in an overseas rotation to Kijabe, Kenya, with both pre-travel orientation and post-travel debriefing arranged.