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 fashion industry. “The True Cost” is a documentary about the fashion industry and it’s impact on the planet. It takes viewers to countries across the …
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 to assessing C. difficile infectior prevention Wes Robertson- Food-borne outbreaks in the last ten years in Wisconsin Warren Rose, PharmD- Mupirocin resistence in MRSA isolates, …
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 disabilities and health conditions. ASD is diagnosed through the observation of behavioral symptoms indicating impairments in social communication and the presence of repetitive behaviors or …
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 found a start-up,and the challenges of building mobile apps to improve emergency care. Faced with few resources as he tended to patients in war zone …
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 diversity of climate-related research at UW-Madison and help grow the network of the climate-change community. The event will feature a combination of student and research based …
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.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) welcomes Dr. Mohammed Dalwai, a Médicins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) veteran, South African emergency physician and tech innovator, as the keynote speaker for the 2016 Global Health Symposium—Global Crises: Today’s Response, Tomorrow’s Hope. The 12th annual symposium convenes at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the …
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 been a focus of rigorous academic work within medical subspecialties, particularly surgical subspecialties. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee, MD, MPH, presents a susrvey of recent work within …
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 Sciences About the talk: In early December, a record number of heads of state convened in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) …