Category: Events
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“Focus on India” Kickoff Reception
UW-Madison’s International Division and Center for South Asia are excited to invite you to the opening reception of Focus on India, a semester-long program highlighting, encouraging, and catalyzing the current…
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Weston Roundtable: The Bolivian Eco-Municipality: A new sustainability framework?
William Powers, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, discusses the Latin American concept of living well that represents a paradigm of sustainability. Bolivia has policies that grant ecosystems the equivalent…
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Earth Care: A Faith Imperative
Earth Care: A Faith Imperative is the theme for this year’s Interfaith Power and Light Conference in Appleton, Wisconsin. Workshops, presentations, exhibits and conversation will explore the continuing challenge of…
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The Ride: Bike Benefit for Cancer Research
The Ride is a Wisconsin biking event hosted by the UW Carbone Cancer Center that benefits UW cancer research and celebrates life. Starting in Sun Prairie, WI, The Ride travels through…
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Fighting Zika and Other Emerging Viruses
What do the Zika virus, dengue, and yellow fever all have in common? They are all mosquito-borne diseases that a team of UW scientists are working to eliminate through studying the…
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Zika Virus: From the ground to the 30,000 ft. view
Dr. Tom Friedrich, head of virology services unit at the Wisconsin National Primate Center, discusses “Zika Virus: From the ground to the 30,000 ft view, when the Infectious Disease Interest…
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Health Equity Conference
Community organizations, public health professionals, health care providers, researchers, educators and community members are invited to join the School of Medicine and Public Health to share experiences and ideas to…
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2016 Quality Improvement Leadership Institute Closing Symposium
More than 20 local and international participants , who have spent a week working with UW faculty, staff, students and each other, will report on health system strengthening projects they…
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From the Field to the Lab: a Big Picture Approach to Understanding Zika virus Emergence in the Americas
Still confused about Zika? Attend this free talk on the evening of September 1st to hear about how the virus spreads and what’s being done to end it! More info and free…
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2016 Quality Improvement Leadership Institute
The Global Health Institute is offering its sixth annual Quality Improvement Leadership Institute at the UW-Madison from Aug. 29 to Sept. 2. The week-long institute brings together UW-Madison faculty, staff…
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GHI advisory member Bernard Easterday to receive highest CALS honor
GHI advisory member Bernard Easterday to receive highest CALS honor
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U.S. – China Symposium on Family Medicine & Community Health
Setting the stage for future professional collaboration between the U.S. and China through a week-long symposium. Symposium goals: Learn about advances in the U.S. that have relevance to the practice…
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Clean Lakes Alliance’s Loop the Lake bike ride
Loop the Lake is Clean Lakes Alliance’s annual bike ride around Lake Monona that highlights our community’s lakes and lakeshore bike paths. Info and tickets here.
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Central Eurasian Studies Summer Institute Lecture Series
“Understanding Women’s Experiences of Domestic Violence in Kyrgyzstan: A Grounded Theory Study” by Sultanate Childress MSW, Ph.D, University of Maryland.
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Infectious Disease Interest Group (IDIG)
Topic: The 2016 Reign of Elizaberhkingia in Wisconsin. Need parking? No problem. Park in the lot with the blue lines between the SVM and the WVDL. UWVeterinary Care has donated…
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CPCP Second Annual Retreat
The day-long program will feature a keynote lecture by Dr. Phil Bourne, the Associate Director for Data Science of the NIH, and presentations by CPCP faculty, postdocs and students. In addition to presentations,…
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Bike to the Library Week
It’s simple, when you bike to the library during Bike to the Library week, (between June 19 and 25; dates vary by individual library), you will receive a bookmark with…
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Anesthesia and the Global Environment
Dr. Jodi Sherman, Assistant Professor and Environmental Compliance Officer at Yale University School of Medicine, will be speaking at the Grand Rounds presentation on Anesthesiology. Dr. Sherman is an internationally recognized speaker and…
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Ebola Seminar
Join us this Thursday for a seminar on Ebola hosted by the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. Jens H. Kuhn, a principal at Tunnell Government Services and the lead…
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Zoonoses & One Health June Conference Call
An hour of discussion on ticks and tickborne diseases from accredited epidemiologists via conference call. The Veterinary Diagnostic Center is hosting a listening session for the conference call or you may…