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2010

Dr. Cindy Haq presented an overview of UW-Madison efforts in global health to the Bascom Hill Society on October 8, 2010. Notes from the presentation are available here.

“On behalf of Dr. Girma Tefera (UW Surgery) and the UW Center for Global Health, I’m delighted to share wonderful news. The UW-SMPH will be a partner in a new Medical Education Partnership Initiative to improve medical education and build human resources for health capacity in Ethiopia. This project, awarded to Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, is funded by the US National Institutes of Health, the Fogarty International Center and HRSA at $2 million per year for up to 5 years. Wisconsin faculty will build on the pre-existing Emergency Medicine Twinning Partnership, to strengthen medical education and community based education, assist faculty development, build research capacity, and evaluate impacts. The University of Wisconsin will join Johns Hopkins, Emory, and UC San Diego in a partnership with four Ethiopian universities to address one of the most serious health professional shortages in the world. Click the link below for additional details. Thank you for your support and interest”. Cindy Haq
http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/training_grants/mepi/award-ethiopia.htm

2009

Q&A: Taking a new perspective on global health

Dr. Cindy Haq was recently interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio. It was a really successful program that garnered a lot of response from their audience. Here is the link to the shows website where you can stream the show by clicking listen.

2008

Linnea Smith, MD Honored With 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award. Dr. Smith was also a Global Health Seminar Series speaker

Professor Linda Baumann presented the keynote address on March 29, 2008 at the
Midwest Nursing Research Society in Indianapolis, IN entitled:
Nursing in Africa: Beyond HIV/AIDS and Into Chronic Care.

The Badger Herald reports on Florence Chenoweth’s Fourth Annual Global Health Symposium keynote address

Linda Baumann’s Op-Ed in the February 20th Capital Times

The Human Rights Initiative at UW-Madison Spring Lecture Series

Health as a Human Right: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice read background material by Stephen Marks, Docteur dâ€™état, Dipl. IHEI

Fourth Annual Global Health Symposium Global Health and Human Rights

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Global Health is pleased to announce the awarding of six educational travel fellowships to UW faculty and staff members. Professor Jonathan Patz, Center for Global Health Steering Committee member contributes to Gore’s, UN’s Nobel Peace Prize Professor Linda Baumann, Center for Global Health Steering Committee member, is named Global Health Research Ambassador

“I am delighted to announce that the Center for Global Health was awarded a grant of $38,000 from the Baldwin/Reilly Idea Endowment for our proposal Interdisciplinary Public Health in Mexico: A Service-Learning Demonstration Project. The project will support credit-based field work in Mexico over the next three years. This work will be carried out in conjunction with PHS 645 sec 04 Global Health Field Study: Mexico

This project will take place in the context of the ongoing partnership between the Center for Global Health and the University of Guadalajara. To date we have hosted faculty exchanges in veterinary medicine and nursing, and 6 of our certificate students have completed their field work at this site. Additionally, two medical students have done clinical rotations affiliated with the University of Guadalajara, and 5 medical students participated in a study there. We will continue to explore interdisciplinary public health activities as well as discipline specific clerkships, rotations and residencies.
The PI for this effort is Lori DiPrete Brown. She will be holding a briefing for Global Health faculty and students interested in being involved in the Baldwin initiative or the broader partnership later this month. Please join me in congratulating Lori on developing this initiative”. Sincerely, Cindy Haq, Director, CGH

Twinning Center Launches New Partnership to Strengthen Emergency Medical Services in Ethiopia. Program will build capacity to provide urgent care and related education and training at Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine at Black Lion Hospital.

Certificate in Global Health featured in Alumni Quarterly Going Global: Global Health learning opportunities abound for medical students and others.

2007

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Global Health is pleased to announce funding support for UW faculty and staff for educational travel pertaining to the mission of the Center for Global Health. Applications for the Center for Global Health Educational Travel Fellowships are due November 1, 2007

The Third Annual Global Health Symposium: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Improving Global Health, February 7, 2007

Professor Linda Baumann received a UW-Madison 2006-2007 Graduate School Research award entitled Approaches to Diabetes in Uganda. This grant will fund collaborative research in diabetes with Professors James Ntambi (Biochemistry) and Professor Marcel Otim of Mulago Hospital and Makerere University.

2005

UW Madison establishes Center for Global Health

2nd Annual Global Health Symposium: Global Health and the Millennium Development Goals, December 7, 2005

2004

1st Annual Global Health Symposium: Wisconsin and the World: Networking for Global Health, December 1, 2004

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