Category: Events

Jean M. Geran and Araceli Alonso, co directors of the UW-STREETS initiative, lead the session to introduce UW-Madison’s new anti-trafficking initiative that seeks to support local and global work to end…

Dr. Tererai Trent is an internationally recognized voice for quality education and women’s empowerment. Oprah called Trent her favorite guest and invested $1.5 million to help build a school in…

The African Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites you to BIG STORIES + CLOSE (UP) RESEARCH: Health and Science in the African World on April 15-16, 2016. Bringing together a…

Dr. Maria Cotera, Dr. Andrea “Tess” Arenas and filmmaker Linda Garcia Merchant will discuss their efforts to recover the histories of Chicana and Latina activists through an innovative mix of…

To Change the Future of Women is a call to women and men, world leaders, influencers and individuals to commit to the Power of 1 action of change for the…

Most of what we know about human trafficking comes from the media. We develop our own opinions of how trafficking takes place, who the victims are and what the bad…

We have always engineered solutions to make our lives easier. Some have stood the test of time, while others have been cast aside. Our speaker argues that today’s sustainability problems…

On behalf of St. Mary’s Preservation of the Earth Committee, we invite you to attend a very important program on global climate change. Dr. Jonathan Patz is the Nobel Peace Prize winning…

The Wisconsin Without Borders Marketplace is partnering with Change Boutique, a fair trade fashion shop in Madison, Wis., to help spread the word about the true costs of the fast…

A collaboration of human and animal health professionals from the University of Wisconsin, State and Federal agencies and the private industry. MPH Student Projects: Caitlyn Ngam- A systems engineering approach…

Autism spectrum disorder is an important public health concern in the United States.  Individuals with ASD often have lifelong impairments and are at increased risk for a variety of other…

Join emergency physicians Mohammed Dalwai from South Africa and Janis Tupesis from UW-Madison as they discuss and demonstrate the opportunities for mobile technology to improve medicine, what it takes to…

The second annual UW Climate Change Symposium will be held March 31st through April 1st, this year with the Global Health Institute being a sponsor. The talks will showcase the…

Dr. Woei-Fuh Wang from the Biodiversity Research Center Academia Sinica, Taiwan, will discuss his work concerning tuberculosis outbreaks. Coffee and cookies will be available at 3:10 p.m.

Disparities in access to, delivery of, and outcomes following medical care have long been widely reported in the general medical literature. However, only in the more recent past have disparities…

Speaker: Jonathan Patz, Director of the Global Health Institute and John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health…

GHI Advisory member Cynthie Anderson, medical director of the Arboretum Ob-Gyn clinic and UW-Madison assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, discusses her Seed Grant work to collaborate with in-country colleagues…