Professor Susan Paskewitz will be the keynote speaker for the 14th annual Global Health Symposium: Advancing Health in Uncertain Times. The symposium begins at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Paskewitz is professor and chair of the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. She also is co-director of the Upper …
A video of the symposium speaker Susan Paskewitz can be found here, and a video of the panel discussion can be found here. WHEN: April 10th, 4:00 p.m. WHERE: Union South With “Deadly Foes: Why Mosquitoes and Ticks Matter to Global Health,” professor Susan Paskewitz will be the keynote speaker for the 14th annual Global …
In Spring 2018, from April 8-11, the University of Wisconsin – Madison will host the EPIC-Network’s annual conference. This year’s program will provide important resources to program managers, university representatives, city officials and organizational partners. Attendees will learn and share best practices for adopting, enhancing, and presenting the EPIC Framework in their communities. Please share broadly with your networks, …
WHEN: April 5th, 6:00 p.m. WHERE: Nancy Nicholas Hall, Room 1199 Please join the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s 4W Women and Wellbeing Initiative for a panel discussion and trunk sale with the participants and organizers of an extraordinary transcontinental co-design project. The panel discussion will be led by Judy Frater, director of the Somaiya Kala Vidya, a …
WHEN: April 5th, 4:15 p.m. WHERE: Mechanical Engineering, Room 1163 Valerie Stull, a Ph.D student advised by GHI Director Jonathan Patz, will present this week’s Weston Roundtable. Check this page for updates and more information.
WHEN: March 20th, 5:30 p.m. WHERE: Nancy Nicholas Hall, Room 1125 Jane Ekayu, founder and executive director of Children of Peace Uganda, will discuss her upbringing, career as a child trauma therapist and experience as a woman in leadership. Her talk is sponsored by UW GlobeMed and the 4W Initiative, and will be followed by a …
The 4W is seeking proposals on the broadly defined theme of Our Bodies, Our Earth: Voice, Violence, and Peacemaking from across the disciplines addressing feminist perspectives on women, gender and voice in research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, creative work and/or community activism. The 4W interprets ‘voice, violence and peacemaking’ broadly and will consider proposals focused on topics …
Full 2018 MTC Program Jointly sponsored by: Global Health Institute Wisconsin Environmental Health Network Physicians for Social Responsibility Wisconsin Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Department of Pediatrics SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital – Madison, Department of Continuing …
Bruce Lanphear, M.D., MPH, is a clinician scientist at the British Columbia Children’s Research Institute and a professor of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Over the past decade, Lanphear has become increasingly vexed by the inability to control the “pandemic of consumption” – the largely preventable, worldwide epidemic of chronic disease and …
4W Innovation Award The 4W Innovation Award is intended as general support– which can be used toward summer salary, course buy out, or other arrangement with school or department– to allow a faculty or academic staff member to devote time to develop a key initiative related to women and wellbeing and aligned with the vision …