The CDC’s Selected Zoonotic Diseases Conference Call will cover several topics: Management of Potential Bat Exposures within a Healthcare Facility Increase in Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Case Detection–Georgia, 2014 Rabies Variant in a Fox, New Mexico UW-Madison alumnus Ryan Wallace, a veterinary medical officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will be a …
Science will light up the night in northern Wisconsin this summer as scientists and educators from UW-Madison and UW-Extension hit the road for the first Northern Lights Tour, a five-stop exposition of research with local and regional impact. The tour, an extension of UW-Madison’s Wednesday Nite@the Lab, produced in conjunction with UW-Extension and Wisconsin Public …
Milwaukee natives Alexandra Skeeter and Olive Albanese will share their experiences studying medicine at Escuela Latinoamericana de Medicina in Havana, Cuba. They are among about 100 U.S. students who are part of a free program offered by the Cuban government especially for students of color, in conjunction with the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus. The program …
The Clean Lakes Festibal will takes place on Saturday, July 25, 2015. The intent of the Festival is three-fold: to raise public awareness about opportunities for recreation on the lakes, highlight the importance of lakes to local quality of life, and offer non-lake users the opportunities to engage in lake recreation. Visit Law Park, on …
Approximately 5 billion out of 7 billion people in the world have no or little access to basic surgical care. Out of the roughly 250 million operations performed each year, only 3.5% are performed on the poorest 1/3 of the world’s population. Injuries alone cause 5.7 million deaths yearly, much more than the 3.8 million …
The 4W Initiative (For Women, For Well-Being, For Wisconsin and the World) presents Voices of Hope: Listening and Supporting Survivors of Human Trafficking. The event will feature three different speakers. Keynote speaker, Shamere McKenzie, tells the inspiring store of a woman who survived sex trafficking in the United States. Shamere has become an activist and …
Join Dr. Frantz Large in a discussion for eye health care in Haiti and around the world on July 15. Large conducts mobile clinics in Haiti and will share his insights and strategies for eye health care, focusing on S.E. Haiti and how partnership efforts improve vision in remote global regions. Large graduated from the …
On Tuesday, July 14, Doctors Without Borders will acknowledge the one year mark following the war in Gaza through an investigative webcast discussing the possible plateau of humanitarian action in the Occupied Palestinian Territories derived from prolonged residency in inhumane environmental conditions. Two experienced MSF field workers – nurse Sarah Woznick, who worked in Gaza …
The Infectious Disease Interest Group (IDIG) is a group of students, faculty, and practitioners from various departments, the State Lab of Hygiene, and Department of Health that’s mission is to bring individuals together who work and/or are interested in the population-level aspects of infectious diseases. July’s Infectious Disease Interest Group topic will be concerning Listeria …
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees there are 51.2 million people forcibly displaced across the world. Among them, 120,000 refugees are from Bhutan. A Wisconsin premiere of the movie In Search of a Nation is being organized by the Bhutanese Youth Club of Madison on June 27th at 7:00pm at Market Square …