Obiora Chinedu Okafor, a respected academic on international, human rights, and immigration/refugee law, will deliver the 2015 Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture on Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the UW–Madison Human Rights Program, Division of International Studies, and African Studies Program, this event is free and open to the public. …
Rhodessa Jones is an actor, writer, director and founder of the internationally acclaimed Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. After more than 30 years, the project has become a model for community-based, process-oriented theater for incarcerated women around the world. Jones has worked with women in South African prisons since 2006. The Medea Project’s workshops …
As a part of the Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars, Ajay K. Sethi, Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be speaking on “OutSmart Flu: Smart Phone-based Influenza-like Inness Surveillance at UW-Madison.” If you cannot attend in person, view the live stream online. Visit: http://live.videos.med.wisc.edu/ and click …
Join the Nelson Institute for their Earth Day conference, it will be “a day of learning and discussion as we explore the latest science, perspectives and possibilities presented by our rapidly changing planet – featuring a keynote address by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.” For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/events/earth-day/
Join WUD Global Connections for their weekly program, Afternoon Conversation Series, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, in Prairie Fire (Union South), to hear women of microenterprise group Sumak Muyo tell their story. Ines Bonilla, Monica Morales and Flora Yepez are visiting UW-Madison from the village of La Calera, Ecuador, to learn and share their …
UW-Madison alumnus Dr. Ryan Wallace, a veterinary epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will discuss his work with rabies control around the world. His talk is “Few Poisons More Deadly Than a Mad Dog’s Tooth: Current perspectives on the global effort for rabies control.” Wallace joined the CDC Rabies Program in 2012, …
Activist, author and occupational therapist Frank Kronenberg from South Africa will open his UW-Madison talk by engaging the audience around the core question of “How are we doing together—as humanity and as health professionals.” He asks: “If caring deeply about humanity is to be the shared heartbeat of all health professionals, can we then afford …
The Department of Population Health Sciences and the UW Population Health Institute are hosting Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. At this Population Health Seminar she will be speaking on “The Child Equity Agenda: The Role of Visual Data and Cross-Sector Collaborations to Reduce Early Life Adversity.” If you …
UW-Madison Professor and current director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment, Gregg Mitman has directed a documentary titled In the Shadow of Ebola that will be airing at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 11 and 12. The 26 minute documentary tells the story of Emmanuel Urey, a Liberian student at school in Madison, …
Gabriel Trueba, DVM, Ph.D., director of the Microbiology Institute at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, worked with UW-Madison researchers to complete a Global Health Institute Seed Grant project that looked at the incidence of brucellosis in Ecuador. He is active in food safety and zoonotic disease research as well as wildlife health, with …