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 

  • Lecture Title: "Prioritizing Mental Health for Mothers, Children, and Adolescents for Communities Affected by Conflict and Displacement in Colombia" 
  • Country: Colombia
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal  Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. WAMS 222 Richmond St, Room 346. Please email sandra_hinthorn@brown.edu to register. 

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
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal  Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. WAMS 222 Richmond St, Room 346. Please email sandra_hinthorn@brown.edu to register. 

Tues, Nov 19, 2024, 5pm to 7pm - Naz Karim, MD, MSc, MHA, MPH and Appolinaire Manirafasha MD, Mmed

  • Lecture Title: “Emergency care in Low and Middle Income countries (LMICs), case of Rwanda”
  • Country: Rwanda
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal  Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. WAMS 222 Richmond St, Room 346. Please email sandra_hinthorn@brown.edu to register. 

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

  • Lecture Title: "Collaboration on a community-based CPR training program between Pakistan and Nepal"
  • 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 - Details forthcoming

  • Lecture Title:
  • Country
  • Location: Warren Alpert Medical School, 222 Richmond St, Room 280, Providence, RI
  • 12-1pm Informal Noon Session with Pizza Lunch. (Details and Location forthcoming)

Details on the March, 2025 and May, 2025 Grand Rounds events will be updated when available.

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