University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Education

Apply now for 2020 Global Health Institute grants and awards

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) is pleased to announce the application period is open for its 2020 grants and awards. This competitive grant program is designed to support global health efforts of faculty, staff and graduate students across campus, fostering the Wisconsin Idea locally and globally. Deadline extended until February 28 for …

Midwest Universities for Global Health Conference challenges colleagues to improve academic programs

In little more than 25 hours, from 3:00 p.m., Friday, September 13, to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, September 14, colleagues from over 20 Midwest universities and organizations wrestled with how to improve global health programming for undergraduate and graduate students and to advance health across disciplines and the world. The Global Health Institute (GHI) at University …

Dr. Dawd Siraj speaks on collaborations between UW-Madison and Jimma University (Ethiopia)

The African Studies Program is proud to welcome officials from Jimma University (Ethiopia) to campus, with the support of a GHI 2019 Visiting Scholars Grant, to discuss expanding cooperation between JU and UW-Madison, specifically in the medical field. Dr. Dawd Siraj, Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UW-Madison and a central organizer of UW-Madison’s academic engagement with Jimma University, discusses how these connections with JU came about.

After 40 years of partnership UW-Madison and the University of Guadalajara, Mexico, expand international collaboration

This summer, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, Mexico made a decades-old partnership official with the signing of a new, three-year cooperative agreement that will expand collaboration on projects relating to socio-environmental topics while continuing the legacy of this partnership, which began in the late 1970s. Signed by Nelson Institute Dean, …