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 …
Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and former member of Parliament in Canada’s House of Commons, will be keynote speaker for the 2015 Global Health Symposium: “Advancing Health in an Intererconnected World” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The 11th annual global health symposium again brings together students, faculty, …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MOOC program, short for Massive Open Online Courses, is enrolling students for the “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region” course until March 30. This 4-week course will feature a new season each week through short lectures and activities covering Great Lakes weather, observed changes in the climate and societal …
The Global Health Institute hosts the 12th annual Global Health Symposium on March 30, 2016 in the Health Sciences Learning Center. The annual event is an opportunity for faculty, staff and students and community members from all disciplines to connect with each other and share their work with the global health community. Presentations are welcome …
Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine and director of the VMED Graduate program at the College of Veterinary Medicine in St. Paul, Minn., Srinand Sreevatsan will discuss zoonotic tuberculosis and improving diagnostics in animals and humans from noon to 1:00 p.m. March 25. This lecture is hosted by the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the School …
UW-Madison alumnus Dr. Craig Wilson (BS ’74, MD ’82) was named director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sparkman Center for Global Health in 2007. He has helped develop health care worker training programs and research across the world. In Zambia, he has contributed to and facilitated several projects, including training pediatric …
A leading expert on medical humanitarianism and author of “Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders” (University of California Press, 2013), Peter Redfield will discuss recent efforts to respond to conditions of disaster and endemic poverty with innovative objects and small-scale designs. Partly decoupled from both states and standard infrastructure, these innovations …
Emerging infections don’t just happen. Some phenomena come together to trigger emergence and transmission. Sarah Paige, a post-doctoral research associate in the lab of Dr. Tony Goldberg in the School of Veterinary Medicine, looks at the human factor in the spread of disease from animals to humans. Paige directs social science field operations for the …
When 20 Gambian girls learned about teaching female reproductive health, they planned to share their knowledge in their communities as peer health educators. Faced with an Ebola outbreak, they realized they were prepared, proactive and ready to serve—and used their education and cultural knowledge to fight the disease. Mam-Yassin Sarr will discuss the importance of …