Category: Events
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Ebola and African deployment: Infectious Disease Interest Group
The Infectious Disease Interest Group meets to discuss the Ebola response at 4 p.m. Friday, May 8. Lina Elbadawi, MD, MS, will present “Ebola and African Deployment.” Masia Safdar, MD,…
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18th annual Leopold Lecture: Welcome to the New Wild–Saving nature in a human dominated world
M. Sanjayan, executive vice president and senior scientist at Conservation International, delivers the 18th annual Leopold Lecture, discussing ways wildlife and humans are coexisting in our modern world. Drawing on…
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Screening Event of the documentary ‘Black Gold’
Michaela Brause, an undergradute student at UW-Madison studying Community and Nonprofit Leadership with certificates in Global Health and Environmental Studies, will be holding a screening event of the documentary ‘Black…
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Symposium: African Development
Development in Africa can take on many faces. Join us for an afternoon of discussion and education around the progress made and future barriers toward sustainable development in Africa. As…
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Approaches for Community-Based Learning in a Local to Global Context
As a part of the Bagels and Research series presented by the Morgridge Center for Public Service, Lori DiPrete Brown will be presenting on community-based learning in a local to…
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Urban agriculture, resilient communities, and you: a career development conversation with Dr. Tracy Sides
Join the Agroecology Program for a conversation with Tracy Sides on Thursday, April 30th. Tracy Sides believes in healthy connections, the power of community, and the “magic” of food. Together…
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Bicycling for Earth and Your Health
Celebrate Monona’s Year of the Bike and Green Living month at the Aldo Leopold Nature Center with a public lecture on climate, energy and sustainability. Postdoctoral researcher Maggie Grabow (PhD, MPH) from the University…
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Girl Rising Film Screening and Discussion
Watch a free screening of Girl Rising, a documentary film about the strength of human spirit and the power of education to change the world. There will be a brief…
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The 2015 Wisconsin Without Borders Award Ceremony
The 2015 Wisconsin Without Borders Award Ceremony will take place on Friday, April 24th at 9:00 a.m. Wisconsin Without Borders recognizes work that demonstrates outstanding examples of globally engaged scholarship…
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Dying with dignity in Rwanda: Exploring country-wide improvements in access and availability of opioids for palliative care
Jean-Claude Tayari Kanyamanza, a clinical pharmacist and director of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain for the Rwanda Biomedical Center, Ministry of Health, will discuss the recent improvements in access to opioid pain medicines…
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Mildred Fish Harnack Lecture
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, a respected academic on international, human rights, and immigration/refugee law, will deliver the 2015 Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture on Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00…
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Rhodessa Jones: Creating Serious Fun–the Medea Project in South Africa
Rhodessa Jones is an actor, writer, director and founder of the internationally acclaimed Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. After more than 30 years, the project has become a model…
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OutSmart Flu: Smart Phone-based influenza-like Illness Surveillance
As a part of the Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars, Ajay K. Sethi, Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be speaking…
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9th Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference
Join the Nelson Institute for their Earth Day conference, it will be “a day of learning and discussion as we explore the latest science, perspectives and possibilities presented by our rapidly…
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WUD Global Connections: Sumak Muyo
Join WUD Global Connections for their weekly program, Afternoon Conversation Series, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, in Prairie Fire (Union South), to hear women of microenterprise group Sumak Muyo…
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Global Health Seminar Series: “Few Poisons More Deadly Than a Mad Dog’s Tooth”
UW-Madison alumnus Dr. Ryan Wallace, a veterinary epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will discuss his work with rabies control around the world. His talk is “Few…
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Frank Kronenberg: The Politics of Being Human
Activist, author and occupational therapist Frank Kronenberg from South Africa will open his UW-Madison talk by engaging the audience around the core question of “How are we doing together—as humanity…
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Population Health Seminar: The Child Equity Agenda
The Department of Population Health Sciences and the UW Population Health Institute are hosting Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. At this Population Health…
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Wisconsin Film Festival: In the Shadow of Ebola
UW-Madison Professor and current director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment, Gregg Mitman has directed a documentary titled In the Shadow of Ebola that will be airing at…
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Seminar: Human Leptospirosis in Ecuadorian communities: The role of the leptospiral intermediate cluster
Gabriel Trueba, DVM, Ph.D., director of the Microbiology Institute at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, worked with UW-Madison researchers to complete a Global Health Institute Seed Grant project…


















