Colonization and decolonization of global health: which way forward?

Despite taking on several forms throughout history such as colonial medicine, tropical medicine, and international health, the field of global health continues to uphold colonialist structures. History demonstrates that acts of colonialism inevitably lead to negative health outcomes. Colonial powers promoted medical advancements when diseases affected their own people, and only did so for locals when in the colonies' best interests.

Transforming Global Health Communications During the COVID-19 Pandemic: International Partner Perspectives.

Background: With the COVID-19 pandemic restricting travel, global health programs are faced with the challenge of bidirectionally supporting students, partners, and communities in new ways. Though other global health programs have-to the best of our knowledge-temporarily frozen, we at the Nuvance Health/University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine Global Health Program have carried forward by transforming our communications through launching a COVID-19 Resources Page with bi-weekly article summaries, redirecting our monthly eMagazine and weekly blog to pandemic themes, and staying in constant communication with our partners around the world.

Objective: To investigate the extent to which our program's published content shifted in sync with the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as our international partners' perception of the COVID-19 resource center, eMagazine, and blog in terms of relevance, representation, and utility.

The Economic and Social Impact of Informal Caregivers at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.

Background: The severe deficit of health care workers in Uganda necessitates hospitalized patients to be cared for by a relative. These informal caregivers constitute a crucial component of patient care. Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, is one of the nation's national referral hospitals, receiving very sick patients.

Developing medical education capacity in Russia: twenty years of experience.

Background: The partnership between Yale University (USA) and Kazan State Medical University (KSMU, Russia) was established in 1996 and transitioned to Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN)/University of Vermont Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine (USA) in 2012 with the goal of modernizing medical education at KSMU primarily through introduction of the American medical education structure, role modeling, and educational capacity building.

Training Young Russian Physicians in Uganda: A Unique Program for Introducing Global Health Education in Russia.

Background: Global health is a new concept in Russia. There has been an ongoing academic collaboration between the Yale School of Medicine in the United States and Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda since 2010, and the US Western Connecticut Health Network/University of Vermont College of Medicine since 2012, to introduce global health concepts to Kazan State Medical University (KSMU) in Russia. The purpose was to educate Russian physicians and medical trainees about the practice of clinical medicine and medical education, as well as the general practice of global health in culturally diverse, resource-limited settings.