Category: Climate & Land Use Change

2020 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards recognize global health efforts

This year's Wisconsin Without Borders award winners are especially involved with global health and well-being.

Researchers at UW–Madison lead data science coalition to aid with COVID-19

GHI team members join campus-wide collaboration to understand and respond to COVID-19.

WPR: Hospitals in Madison, Milwaukee testing plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients

Aurora St. Luke and UW Hospital are part of a nationwide clinical trial to determine if antibodies from a recovered coronavirus patient can help others.

Climate change affects everything: Even the coronavirus

UW-Madison researchers weigh in on how climate change can contribute to virus transmission.

State may have seen COVID-19 peak without big surge, but officials say risk remains

Wisconsin is still flattening the curve of the coronavirus, and researchers say it could get worse without maintaining strict guidelines.

UW-Madison researchers tracking travel, social media to help contain virus

Forced to choose between staying away from others to prevent the spread of a pandemic and casting a ballot in Wisconsin’s April 7 election, crowds lined up at polling places across the state — including thousands funneled to five sites in Milwaukee. New data shows that Wisconsinites traveled more during Tuesday’s election than they did …

Know your Madisonian: UW Hospital doctor at forefront of COVID-19 pandemic response

Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Hospital, is helping lead UW Health's response to COVID-19.

Sign up for UW-Madison coronavirus newsletter

As we navigate this global pandemic together, the University of Wisconsin–Madison invites you to subscribe to the new COVID-19 Update newsletter, designed to keep you up to date on coronavirus, resources and research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. See the first newsletter here. To subscribe to the newsletter, sign up here. Find the latest plans …

2020 UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards

Congratulations to Paul Block, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, and Andrea Hicks, a Planetary Health Scholars advisor, on receiving this year's UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award.

Pandemic: COVID-19 documentary

Ajay Sethi, associate professor of Population Health Sciences and a GHI Advisory Committee member, was featured in the Discovery Channel's "Pandemic: COVID-19."