Global Health Initiative

2024-25 Grand Rounds

We are happy to announce that the Global Health Initiative will be launching a series of 8 Global Health Grand Round (GR) lectures for the academic year 2024-2025, kicking off on August 27, 2024 at the Warren Alpert Medical School.

The main objective of our monthly GR lecture series is to highlight the outstanding global health work and research that our faculty members have been doing with their international partners and academic institutions globally. The GR lectures will be attended by our faculty members, students, residents, fellows and trainees.

Tues, Aug 27, 2024, 5pm to 7pm - Susan Cu-Uvin, MD and Nabila Hossain Purno, MPH

Tues, Sep 17, 2024, 5pm to 7pm - Alethea Desrosiers, PhD and Andrés Moya, PhD 

Tues, Oct 22, 2024, 5pm to 7pm - Ruhul Abid, MD, PhD and Bushra Binte Alam, MD, M.Phil

  • Lecture Title:  “Healthcare Delivery in Humanitarian Crisis and Resource-limited Setting: Management of Chronic Diseases”
  • Country: Bangladesh
  • A/V Recording: 10/22/2024 Grand Rounds Zoom Recording 

Tues, Nov 19, 2024, 5pm to 7pm - Naz Karim, MD, MSc, MHA, MPH;  Appolinaire Manirafasha MD, Mmed; and Kyle Denison Martin, DO, MA, MPH.  

Tues, Jan 28, 2025, 5pm to 7pm - Ramu Kharel, MD, MPH and Mirza Noor Ali Baig, MBBS, M.S, FCPS

  • Lecture Title:  "Empowering Communities, Saving Lives: Lessons from the Pakistan Life Savers Programme – A Blueprint for Global Action and Collaboration"
  • Countries: Pakistan and Nepal
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal  Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. (Details and Location forthcoming)

Tues, Feb 18, 2025, 5pm to 7pm - Andrea Parker, MD and Robert Parker, MD

  • Lecture Title: “Advancing Surgical Education and Research to Improve Outcomes in East, Central, and Southern Africa”
  • Country: Kenya
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal  Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. (Details and Location forthcoming)

Tues, Mar 18, 2025, 5pm to 7pm -  Anne CC Lee, MD, MPH and Firehiwot Workneh Abate, PhD, MPH

  • Lecture Title: "The First 1,000 Days: Impacts of Prenatal Nutrition and Infection on Birth outcomes and Child development  in Rural Ethiopia"
  • Country: Ethiopia
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. (Details and Location forthcoming)

Tues, Apr 29, 2025, 5pm to 7pm - Prof Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FRSC

Chair, Department of Global & Public Health, McGill University

  • Keynote Speaker for 2025 Global Health Research Day
  • Lecture Title: Reimagining Global Health: From Individual to Institutional Allyship
  • LocationWarren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. (Details and Location forthcoming)

                       Funding support provided by the Arnold T. Galkin Fund in memory of Paul J. Galkin.