The Yale Club of Hartford is proud to announce that we will continue to conduct our Annual Meeting on May 12 as originally scheduled. However, as a result of the ongoing restrictions on social gathering due to Covid-19, we will hold the Club's first ever "virtual" Annual Meeting through the web conferencing platform Zoom rather than in person.
We are also excited to announce that Sten Vermund, MD, PhD, Dean of Yale School of Public Health, has reconfirmed his participation as our guest speaker. We are very fortunate to have Dean Vermund as a speaker given his many responsibilities for responding to the worldwide spread of Covid-19.
To receive an invitation and link to the Zoom meeting, please register by clicking here or by going to www.yaleclubhartford.org/annualmtg2020 and clicking on the "Registration" tab at the top of the page.
Special Note - Please Support our Summer Internship Program!
Please consider a donation to our summer internship program in lieu of the fee we normally charge for the Annual Meeting dinner. This summer we plan to sponsor four local Yale students at not-for-profit organizations or government agencies. Your generosity will support our program at Connecticut Invention Convention, Jackson Labs, and other agencies. Prior internships have included positions at CT Department of Health, DEEP, Real Art Ways, TheaterWorks, and Mark Twain House.
To register for the meeting, pay dues, and make a donation, go to the YCH website by clicking here or go to www.yaleclubhartford.org/annualmtg2020.
Please take a moment to register and donate. If you have questions, please email hartford.yale.club@gmail.com. We look forward to seeing you on Zoom on Tuesday, May 12 at 7 pm!
About Dean Vermund:
Prior to joining Yale as dean in 2017, Dr. Vermund was on the faculty of Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, where was named the school’s first Amos Christie Chair in Global Health. During his training in pediatrics at Columbia University, he was exposed to many cases of preventable illness in underserved minority populations. “The more preventable illness I saw, the more my passion for a public health-based orientation grew,” he says.
For the past two decades, Dr. Vermund, who is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine), has focused on global health issues. In developing countries, where Pap smears are not routine, his team promulgated a simple technique to visually detect cervical lesions and built a major screening program in Zambia that has become a global training center. Dr. Vermund served as chief of the Vaccine Trials & Epidemiology Branch in the Division of AIDS at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1988 to 1994, a time when AIDS activism had a major influence on government policy.
More information on Dr. Vermund's background can be found by clicking here on Yale's announcement from 2017, or by pasting the following link in your browser:
https://medicine.yale.edu/news/medicineatyale/school-of-public-health-welcomes-a-new-dean/
If you have questions, please email hartford.yale.club@gmail.com. Otherwise, we look forward to seeing you on Zoom on Tuesday, May 12 at 7pm!