This lecture is a part of the Monday seminar series supported by Population Health Sciences and the School of Medicine and Public Health While health declines are common at older ages, the factors and mechanisms that shape specific patterns of health decline in later life are not well understood. One key factor that influences health across …
Join the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies for its tenth annual Earth Day Conference, called “Everyone’s Earth,” where community storytellers will share their experiences observing and surviving on a restless planet. The tenth annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference will explore compelling stories and vivid reports – drawn from the world’s wildest places to our …
Join Madison Mayor Paul Soglin for a discussion on the challenges and opportunities facing our city. Interact with the mayor and with your colleagues to understand these challenges and how cities and businesses can work together to provide solutions. Open to all faculty, staff, and students. Seating is limited so please register for the event …
Dr. Andrew Bastawrous of PEEK Vision is returning to Wisconsin with the rest of the PEEK team to join CBI in speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in April. This event will focus on our upcoming partnership in the country of Botswana, Africa where we will pilot test the PEEK Vision system and hopefully restore …
Monona Mayor Bob Miller and Jason Vargo, an assistant scientist at GHI and the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, will discuss the first UniverCity Year project with Monona, Wisconsin. UniverCity Year is a program through the UniverCity Alliance, which is co-convened by the Global Health Institute. The collaboration among partners across UW-Madison aims to make the resources …
Join WUD Society & Politics for an important talk about poverty, health equity, and racial disparities in health in the United States given by Dr. Cindy Haq and Christina Fok. Cindy Haq is Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She has been a …
Thomas Buergenthal spent the first 11 years of his life under the cloud of Nazi Germany, growing up in the Jewish ghetto of Kielce, Poland, and later in concentration camps at Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen. At age 17, Buergenthal immigrated to the United States, on a path to becoming one of the world’s leading international human …
Neighborhood disadvantage is an independent predictor of health and development. However, the breadth of causal inferences that can be drawn regarding neighborhood effects is limited due to the conceptual and methodological challenges of large-scale interventions. Moreover, it has been hypothesized that neighborhoods influence health, in part, through how social and physical environments impact emotion, health …
Donna E. Shalala is the president of the Clinton Foundation. Previously, she served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993, and as president of the University of Miami and Professor of Political Science. She also served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Shalala returns to campus to remind listeners …