University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Five Strategic Focus Areas

Introducing rural Wisconsin students to global opportunities

Read more about how GHI is helping to get high school students interested in public health.

Award trains palliative care champions

With a new $200,000 grant from the National Cancer Center, Dr. James Cleary, director of the Pain and Policy Studies Group at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, will collaborate with the African Palliative Care Association to train in-country champions who will improve access to medications needed to relieve cancer pain. Cleary is principal investigator …

Patz to speak on climate change at Birkebeiner ski race

Learn more about this talk being given by our very own, Jonathan Patz.

HUMANITARIAN REPORTING: RECENT GRAD SHARES LESSONS FROM THE FIELD

UW-Madison alumna, Erin Luhmann wins the opportunity to travel to Chad, Niger and Mali.

African academies tap Patz to chair 20-nation joint meeting on climate change

African academies tap Patz to chair 20-nation joint meeting on climate change

Global Health Institute moves to heart of campus

Global Health Institute moves to heart of campus.

African academies tap Patz to chair 20-nation joint meeting on climate change

Dr. Jonathan Patz will be chairing a meeting on climate change in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Patz, Vargo op-ed in Huffington Post: On the (Bike) Path to Prosperity: Why Banning Bikes is Bad for Kolkata

Check out this article by Jonathan Patz and Jason Vargo on a bike ban in India.

Climate change poses a public health crisis- and opportunity: GHI Director, Jonathan Patz, on panel at the Chicago-based Environmental Law and Policy Center

Read about how the changing climate can open up new opportunities for positive change.

GHI Director Jonathan Patz and UW Botany Chair Don Waller co-authored ‘Move Forward on Climate Change’ in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Check out this article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by Don Waller and GHI’s Jonathan Patz.