Andrea Hicks, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, looks at the environmental, economic and societal impacts of our evolving technology. Tools such as life-cycle assessment and agent-based modeling allow for the quantification of these impacts, and generate an understanding of potential unintended consequences. Hicks will explore these by looking at products such as energy-efficient …
James Fairhead is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Sussex. His research covers anthropogenic landscapes and indigenous agro-ecological knowledge. In a trio of books, he examined how the environmental sciences and policy engage with the lives and perspectives of land users. His presentation is part of a year-long “One Health and History in Africa …
GHI Director Jonathan Patz presents “Confronting the Global Climate Crisis May be the Best Way to Fight Chronic Diseases” at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. Listen live at http://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/events/population-health-spotlight/. The talk will also be available on-demand.
Jacob Atem will share his journey from a genocide survivor to health activist in his home village. Atem was 6 when his parents were killed, his siblings lost, and his village in southern Sudan was decimated by genocide. He became one of nearly 20,000 “Lost Boys” from South Sudan, orphaned and fleeing war. He fled 1,000 …
The Food Sovereignty Symposium and Festival will be held March 10-12 on the University of Wisconsin campus and surrounding sites in Madison, Wisconsin. The symposium component of event is focusing on Indigenous and broader topics of food sovereignty that impact how communities and individuals control and manage their food systems, and the festival component is …
Purpose: To bring together women of all backgrounds to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women in many places around the world and to think about ways in which we can accelerate gender parity. Will you Be Bold For Change on International Women’s Day 2017 and beyond by taking groundbreaking action that …
Featured presentations by our director, Jonathan Patz, and Jonathan Sleeman, center director of USGS National Wildlife Health Center. Discussion to follow moderated by Christopher Olsen, professor emeritus, School of Veterinary Medicine and Global Health Institute.
Two of the GHI Graduate Student Research Awards recipients report back on their work to further global health across the world. Camilla Reuterswaerd , a Ph.D., candidate in the Department of Political Science, looks at what happened to reproductive rights in Mexico after abortion was legalized in 2007. Jiang, a graduate student in the Department …
It generates medicines, purifies water, absorbs greenhouse gases and grows our food. Yet most of us know little about soil — in fact, we treat this valuable resource like dirt. Steve Ventura will describe the important ecosystem services derived from healthy soils and present new ideas about how to protect them. Ventura, the UW-Madison Gaylord …
When: February 27th, 12 -1 p.m. Where: 1345 HSLC.