Ellen Small Billard is coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison! She is a social worker, humanitarian, and advocate with a passion for social justice and a love for the Middle East. She co-founded Road to Mafraq, a non-profit organization, which aims to increase access to education and healthcare for children affected by conflict in the …
More information about the Blank event. Approximate schedule: 9:00 AM Registration table opens. 10:00 AM Dining room doors open; announcements projected on-screen. If you expect to sit with others in your party, be sure to arrive early. Seats cannot be “saved” after 10:45. 11:00 AM Youth Grant awards, public affairs speaker Lori DiPrete Brown 11:20 AM Lunch Cole slaw BBQ braised …
For the third time in a row, AFRICaide (http://www.africaide.org/) , a local community organization, and women in the community are organizing a conference to celebrate International Women’s Day on Saturday March 5, 2016. We will be having speakers and small group discussions on Gender Parity from the local to the global level. The conference will go from 10:30 am until …
Lori Diprete Brown the Associate Director for Education and Engagement, at Global Health Institute will be a part of The Health of the Next Generation hosted by Chicago Council on Global Affairs. This year’s International Women’s Day Global Health Symposium will explore the health of the next generation for women and girls locally, nationally, and internationally. …
In December, the United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) met in Paris, where nearly 200 nations ratified a new universal climate change agreement with the goal of reducing global carbon emissions. For the first time since the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, the world came together to adopt a healthy, sustainable future. Join us …
Communities in India, Pakistan, and Nigeria rejecting vaccinations for their children; assaults on medical teams fighting Ebola in West Africa; attacks on aid workers in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria: what is the source of such animosity? This lecture seeks the origins of contemporary mistrust of global health campaigns in the history of colonialism. Medicine was …
Following recent climate talks, students are eager to participate in conversation about the subject. A student organized event, we invite you to join the Global Connections Committee and Society and Politics Committee with Canadian Consul General Roy Norton in a conversation about COP 21.
Join the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations as Jonathan Patz presents Human Health – the Greatest Beneficiary from Climate Change Policy. Registration for this event is required. In December, world leaders convened in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) on climate change to negotiate binding commitments on greenhouse gas reductions. But are the trade-offs …
GHI Director Jonathan Patz shares insights from the United Nations climate change conference in Paris. The Conference of the Parties led to a December agreement in which nations around the world agreed to cut greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to curb global warming. For more information, call 715-682-1264 or email soei@northland.edu.