University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Climate & Land Use Change

March 28 Global Health Tuesday to focus on migration and health

Watch the full recording of our recent Global Health Tuesday: Global Health and Migration here on our YouTube channel. Join the UW-Madison Global Health Institute on March 28, 4:30-5:30 p.m. on for this month’s Global Health Tuesday: Global Health and Migration. Refugees are fleeing from war and violence across the world. UW experts from the …

GHI is Hiring: Apply to be a Research Associate Professor

The Global Health Institute (GHI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison works at the intersection of health, equity and sustainability. Our work is grounded in a global health ethic and the One Health principle that recognizes the well-being of humans, animals, and the planet’s ecosystems are inextricably linked. GHI is establishing three One Health Centers across …

GHI One Health Center-India

The UW-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) joined campus partners in India for a Badger Utsav Sunday, February 5, 2023, to celebrate Badgers Building a Better World. GHI was joined by both Dr. Krishna Ella, who is a GHI Board of Visitors Member as well as Co-founder & Executive Chairman of Bharat Biotech and Co-founder of …

UW-Madison Global Health Institute and Ella Foundation ink agreement to establish the first-ever “UW-Madison One Health Center” in India to advance vaccines, therapeutics, and global health education

 The UW-Madison Global One Health Center looks to advance global health through exchanges, research, education, and outreach to increase capacity for monitoring, surveillance, and preventing infectious diseases in humans, animals, and plants. Focus to develop and produce novel vaccines in India. Partnership expands the Wisconsin Idea by providing interdisciplinary collaborations with UW-Madison, the Ella Foundation, …

New GHI report examines hemp and UN Sustainable Development Goals

A new report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) outlines how industrial hemp can contribute to the United Nations framework for a sustainable and equitable future for all. The report, “Industrializing Hemp to Advance the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),’” suggests academia is critical to addressing  gaps in research and …

Summer webinar looks at benefits of industrialized hemp

JUNE 21: Panelists from UW-Madison, UW Health, the University of Lagos, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, and the Wisconsin Hemp Alliance will join the webinar and launch of the new report, “Industrializing Hemp to Advance the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.”

2022 GHI grants address the complexity of global health challenges

Establishing a cohort of girls in Zimbabwe to examine how well the HPV vaccine works over time Assessing the health of sanctuary chimpanzees in Uganda and Republic of Congo by identifying the viruses in their saliva Understanding and addressing child malnutrition in Delhi, India, post-COVID Studying the links between the loss of forest cover and …