University of Wisconsin–Madison

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National One Health Day Colloquium

One Health is the collaborative effort of multiple health science professions, together with their related disciplines and institutions – working locally, nationally, and globally – to attain optimal health for people, domestic animals, wildlife, plants, and our environment. One Health Day is an international campaign co-coordinated by the One Health Commission. The goal of One …

The O’Brien Fellowship 2017 Conference

This year’s conference will discuss and debate the threat of pandemics from diseases that are driven by human decisions. The O’Brien conference will welcome GHI Director Jonathan Patz as a speaker. Patz and fellow panelists will discuss climate change’s role in the spread of diseases, and the ethics of steps such as the genetic modification of …

Director Jonathan Patz to speak at TEDxOshkosh: Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure?

GHI Director Jonathan Patz has been selected to speak at the 2017 TEDxOshkosh event. Here he will discuss climate change and its connection to public health problems – from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. Patz will draw from the latest research to show the health and …

Connecting Landscapes: Long-term collaboration

The University of Wisconsin and University of Guadalajara (UdeG) system campuses have a long, rich history of collaboration. In the past year, a multidisciplinary team of UW scholars were fortunate enough to have had the support of an IRIS-funded grant, titled “Connecting Landscapes,” to do some targeted work with UdeG colleagues to build an even stronger platform for …

Free Film Festival: Tales from Planet Earth

Standing Rock. Idle No More. The Landless Worker’s Movement. Across the globe, new alliances and collective actions are rising up in the struggle for the rights and sovereignty of local peoples to determine their own futures. Our 2017 festival showcases stories that inform, challenge, and inspire us to rethink relationships to land in an era …

Connecting Landscapes: Adriana Olivares

The University of Wisconsin and University of Guadalajara (UdeG) system campuses have a long, rich history of collaboration. In the past year, a multidisciplinary team of UW scholars were fortunate enough to have had the support of an IRIS-funded grant, titled “Connecting Landscapes,” to do some targeted work with UdeG colleagues to build an even stronger platform for …

Wisconsin Science Festival

The four-day Wisconsin Science Festival is a statewide celebration with events across Wisconsin for people of all ages. 285+ events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more. The Wisconsin Science Festival received the Key of Excellence Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2014 for “blending science with both the arts and humanities …

Undergraduate Global Health Field Course Fair

Interested in learning about how to improve the health of people, all life and the environment without necessarily practicing medicine? Would you like to know what makes people healthy in different communities—and learn from different cultures and experts around the world about the determinants of health? Are you wondering how to complete the field course …

Iris International Film Series

Please join the UW IRIS for the first annual Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) international film series! As part of this year’s International Education Week programming, IRIS along with its regional centers and the International Division, will be showing a series of international films. Several of the selected films have a UW-Madison connection (faculty, students …