Researchers hope this information will help them learn more about where and when people encounter ticks, with the ultimate goal of discovering how to limit people’s exposure to tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease.
Advisory Group
Wisconsin State Farmer: GHI Advisory Committee member Susan Paskewitz points to importance of weather, moisture in determining Wisconsin’s Lyme disease forecast
Wisconsin State Farmer: GHI Advisory Committee member Susan Paskewitz points to importance of weather, moisture in determining Wisconsin’s Lyme disease forecast
Surgery residency goes global
UW general surgery resident Dr. Callistus Ditah, local surgeon Dr. Nebyou, and UW vascular surgeon Dr. Paul DiMusto after a case in the OR. GOING GLOBAL IN GENERAL SURGERY: RESIDENT RETURNS FROM DEPARTMENT’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL …
GHI Advisory Committee members Anne Pringle and Lyric Bartholomay among faculty honored with Vilas professorships
GHI Advisory Committee members Anne Pringle and Lyric Bartholomay among faculty honored with Vilas professorships
The Country Today: From farm to field, UW researcher and GHI Advisory Committee member Michel Wattiaux follows greenhouse gas footprints of cows
The Country Today: From farm to field, UW researcher and GHI Advisory Committee member Michel Wattiaux follows greenhouse gas footprints of cows
New York Times: GHI Advisory Committee member James Cleary discusses government’s role in opioid epidemic
New York Times: GHI Advisory Committee member James Cleary discusses government’s role in opioid epidemic
Araceli Alonso, GHI Advisory Committee member, receives 2018 Academic Staff Excellence Award
Araceli Alonso, GHI Advisory Committee member, receives 2018 Academic Staff Excellence Award
Michel Wattiaux, GHI Advisory Committee member, follows dairy cows’ carbon footprints from barn to field
Michel Wattiaux, GHI Advisory Committee member, follows dairy cows’ carbon footprints from barn to field
Ebola vaccine inches toward human clinical trials
School of Veterinary Medicine Professor Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a GHI Advisory Committee member, will lead a $3 million effort to produce an experimental vaccine for Ebola.
Envisioning Climate Change Impacts on the World’s Deadliest Animals
Presented as part of the Climate, People and the Environment Program, presented by the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. Each semester the Climate, People, and the Environment Program hosts a weekly seminar featuring lectures by …
Madison firm co-founded by GHI Advisory Committee member Yoshihiro Kawaoka advances human trials of revolutionary influenza vaccine
Madison firm co-founded by GHI Advisory Committee member Yoshihiro Kawaoka advances human trials of revolutionary influenza vaccine
‘Opiophobia’ Has Left Africa in Agony
NY Times quotes palliative care expert Jim Cleary, a GHI Advisory Committee member, about the crisis caused by ‘opiophobia’ in Africa.
In the heart of devastating outbreak, research team unlocks secrets of Ebola
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host & Microbe, a scientific team led by the UW–Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.
Strength in Connection: GHI Director’s Report October 2017
Strength In Connection, the October 2017 Global Health Institute Director’s Report is now available online. Learn about GHI’s education program and our future leaders. Check in with virus sleuth Tony Goldberg See how GHI grants …
GHI Advisory Committee member leads new study on Autism Spectrum Disorder and socioeconomic status
GHI Advisory Committee member leads new study on Autism Spectrum Disorder and socioeconomic status
WIZM: Study shows monkeys contracted CWD from infected deer meat, shows possibility to humans
CWD could affect humans; get your deer tested, says Keith Poulsen, a GHI Advisory Committee member with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold
Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold, GHI Advisory Committee member finds
New York Times: Fungi Physics — How Those Spores Launch Just Right
GHI Advisory member Anne Pringle contributes to a new paper about how mushrooms send spores in the right direction. Story from the NY Times.
One Health idea gives Young African fellows new ways to promote health
The idea of One Health – that the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected—gave the Mandela Washington Fellows from Africa new ways to address health challenges.
WPR Interview with Susan Paskewitz This Summer Promises To Be A Big One For Ticks
Entomology professor and GHI Advisory Committee member, Susan Paskewitz forecasts the coming tick season on WPR.