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STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership LessonsAuthor: STFM
What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth. This series of podcasts explores the development of leadership skills, including clarity, courage, decisiveness, humility, and passion, as a means to facilitating growth during times when healthcare professionals are addressing: Motivation and Mentorship Burnout and Transitions Milestones and Meaning Barriers and BureaucracyThis series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators. Language: en-us Genres: Education, Health & Fitness, Medicine Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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From Good Intentions to Impact: Building Equitable Global Health Partnerships with Odinaka C. Anyanwu, MD, and Fay Homan, MD
Episode 11
Sunday, 1 November, 2026
What transforms a meaningful trip abroad into a lasting global health partnership? In this episode, Odinaka C. Anyanwu, MD, and Fay Homan, MD, discuss how family medicine educators can turn the desire to make a difference into equitable, long-term partnerships grounded in host communities’ priorities and leadership. They discuss what it means to decolonize global health by recognizing power imbalances, practicing cultural humility, and reflecting on one’s own positionality. Together with our hosts, they explore the value of bidirectional learning and how lessons from health systems around the world can strengthen the way we teach, practice, and lead in our own communities. Hosted by Omari A. Hodge, MD, and Jay-Sheree Allen Akambase, MDCopyright © Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 2026Resources:Brown Global Health Faculty Development FellowshipWhen Helping Hurts by Brian Fikkert and Steve CorbettThe Global Heart of Family Medicine: A Vision for WONCA featuring Viviana Martinez-Bianchi - STFM Podcast episodeGuest Bio:Odinaka C. Anyanwu, MDDr Odinaka Anyanwu is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Assistant Director of Brown’s Global Health Faculty Development Fellowship, and a board-certified family physician practicing full-spectrum primary care.She completed her residency at the University of Texas Southwestern, followed by fellowships in Maternal Child Health and Global Health at Brown University and an NIH T32 postdoctoral research fellowship. Her work focuses on maternal health, health equity, implementation science, and advancing equitable global health partnerships.Dr Anyanwu is a national and international speaker on decolonizing global health and equity in medical education. She serves as Chair of the Equity Subcommittee of the Global Health Advisory Committee within the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University’s Center for Global Health Equity and is a member of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians (WONCA) Working Party on Women and Family Medicine - North America region. She previously served as a global health consultant to the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Foundation’s humanitarian initiative and as a member of the AAFP Center for Global Health Initiatives Advisory Group. Her honors include the 2024 Family Medicine Education Consortium Emerging Leader Award and recognition as a 2026 Rhode Island Top Doctor.Fay Homan, MDDr Homan has been a family doctor in rural Vermont for over 30 years. Her practice has included full spectrum Family Medicine including inpatient care and obstetrics. She has a long interest in global health, and has done patient care and teaching in Kosovo, Malawi and the Dominican Republic. She chairs the Vermont Steering Committee for Comprehensive Primary Health Care.Link:https://stfm.org/stfmpodcast112026
