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Presented by the UW Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar Series. Speaker information: Linda Baumann, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor Emerita The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and School of Medicine and Public Health. Professor Baumann is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. She received a BSN and …
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Programs in Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, Thailand and Uganda still accepting students for next summer — apply today! Local field courses summer 2018 Odanah, WI — Exploring Ecology, Culture, and Health in the Wisconsin Lake Superior Basin – Due Dec 1 Wisconsin (various locations) — Wisconsin Express is a set of one-week small-group field courses in Wisconsin run by …
Join us for our World AIDS Day Panel. Our panelists include advocates, educators, and members of communities affected by HIV. Lunch will be provided. Free testing is available from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. in the On Wisconsin C room. All students are welcome. For questions or accommodations, please contact msc@studentlife.wisc.edu.
Synthetic biology is a fast-moving innovative field with the potential to change our relationship to the natural world. It involves the design and construction of new biological parts, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems. It has many potential applications, including replacing natural products with synthetic ones, reviving extinct species, and creating powerful tools …
Join the Wisconsin Academy for their monthly conversation in the Environmental Breakfast series, “We’ll Always Have Paris.” The topic for this gathering will be “How Counties can lead” with Keith Reopelle, Director, Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change. This series is presented as part of the Wisconsin Academy’s Climate & Energy Initiative. Register here.
Ebola Survivor Corps, Doctors Without Borders-Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the UWSMPH Infectious Disease Interest Group and WUD Film present Affliction, a powerful MSF documentary about the devastating effects of the 2014 Ebola epidemic from West Africa to Madison. Shot in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Affliction provides an intimate look at the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the …
Sponsored by the Center for Journalism Ethics. Three experts will join faculty, staff and students with an interest in health policy or communication at the Overture Center: •Sarah Kliff, health policy journalist at Vox •David Wahlberg, health and medicine reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal •J. Paul Kelleher, assistant professor of bioethics at UW-Madison RSVP …
Because age is a central principle of social organization, aging trajectories — in their temporality, social meaning and roles — are highly sensitive to social change. This change is influenced by economic and societal changes, and by interrelated processes of changing norms. However, in between relatively stable norms and changing practices we see a concept …