The Global Health Institute builds bridges between researchers, health care professionals, staff, students, fellows and communities to tackle the complex, interlinked causes of disease. Download the PDF. 2013-2014 UW-Madison Global Health Impact Report.
Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute, joins panelists to discuss Health Benefits of Mitigating Climate Change at WHO
GHI is among co-hosts for A Civil Society Event on Action in Climate Change and Health.
EcoHealth, like GHI, calls for addressing climate change to benefit human, animal and ecosystem health.
A Fulbright Scholar grant will take Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute (GHI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to Ethiopia to work on issues involving livable cities, climate change and health during the spring semester of his 2014-2015 sabbatical. He will spend the fall and winter in Geneva, Switzerland
The story of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s expanding web of global health initiatives in Ethiopia began with one man’s homecoming. Dr. Girma Tefera, a professor in the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine and Public Health, spent 14 years without visiting his family in the southern Ethiopian highlands, studying medicine in Italy and …
Graduate Students Take on Global Health Challenges
The Global Health Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reflects a decade of interdisciplinary global health work on campus, says Dr. Christopher Olsen, this year’s keynote speaker. This year’s symposium, “One Health: Making the Connections,” begins at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in the Health Sciences Learning Center. More than 50 students and faculty and …
After long quest, climate/public health pioneer applauds Obama’s coal decision
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