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Category: GH Tuesday

Global Health Tuesday Webinar – Cannabis and One Health: Connecting People, Planet, and Policy

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EVENT DATE: May 19, 2026 9-10am (CST) Join Calyn Ostrowski, Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships & Development, GHI, as she leads the discussion with panelists Dr. Silvia Martins, Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Dr. Traci Toomey, Professor, Division of Epidemiology & Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; Prof. Abimbola Adepeju Sowemimo, Professor, Natural Product Research, FAculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Nigeria; and Dr. Heather Barkholtz, Assistant Director of Forensic Toxicology, Pharmaceutical Sciences Division, School of Pharmacy, UW–Madison and Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene.

Global Health Tuesday: Clean Water’s Role in Global Health Outcomes

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EVENT DATE: March 24, 9-10am (CST). Join Dr. Katherine (Trina) McMahon, Professor of Bacteriology; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UW–Madison, as she moderates a timely conversation on Clean Water’s Role in Global Health Outcomes. Dr. McMahon leads the discussion with panelists Dr. Heather Murphy, Tier II Canada Research Chair in One Health, Department of Pathobiology, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph; Nicole Weber, MPH, Affiliate Faculty, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University; and Dr. Matthew Freeman, Professor, Gangarosa Department of Environmental Health; Huber Department of Global Health, Emory University.

Global Health Tuesday: High Youth Death Rates – An Emerging Global Health Crisis

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EVENT DATE: February 24, 9-10am (CST). Join Dr. Carol D. Ryff, Director, Institute on Aging, & MIDUS Principal Investigator, UW–Madison, as she moderates a timely conversation on High Youth Death Rates – An Emerging Global Health Crisis. She is joined by panelists Dr. Eve Puffer, Founding Director, Duke Center for Global Mental Health; Dr. Prakash Tyagi, Founder-Director, GRAVIS Hospital; Professor, University of Washington; and Dr. Githinji Gitahi, MBS, Group Chief Executive Officer, Amref Health Africa.

Global Health Tuesday: Local to Global Rise in Antimicrobial Resistance

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EVENT DATE: January 27, 2026, 9-10am (CST). Join Dr. Daniel Shirley, Associate Professor (CHS), Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), as he moderates a timely conversation on Local to Global Rise in Antimicrobial Resistance with panelists Laurel Legenza, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, UW–Madison; François Franceschi, Head of Asset Evaluation and Development and Serious Bacterial Infections Project Leader, Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP); and Dr. Erta Kalanxhi, Director of Partnerships, One Health Trust.

Global Health Tuesday: UW–Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative to Improve Global Health

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EVENT DATE: December 9, 2025, 9-10am (CST). Join Calyn Ostrowski, GHI Associate Director, Strategic Partnerships & Development as she moderates a discussion about the UW-Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative’s global reach. She is joined by panelists Dr. Abdullah Keles, Scientist, and Dr. Mutafa Baskaya, both from UW–Madison’s Microneurosurgery Initiative and SMPH; and Dr. Yannick Canton Kessely, Specialist Neurosurgeon, Department of Neurosurgery,Hôpital La Renaissance de N’Djamena, Chad.

Global Health Tuesday: AI’s Potential to Address Global One Health Crises

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EVENT DATE: November 18, 2025, 9-10am (CST), Join panelists Matthew Conway, Director of Revenue & Strategy, Hala Systems and Senior Program Consultant, International Organization for Migration, United Nations; Milind Tambe, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and Principal Scientist & Director for “AI for Social Good,” Google Deepmind; and Beth Tellman, Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW–Madison and Co-Founder & Chief Science Officer, Floodbase, for this engaging discussion.

Global Health Tuesday: Community-driven Solutions to Maternal Health Disparities

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EVENT DATE: October 28, 2025, 9-10am (CST), featuring moderator Niti Saxena, Chief Technology Officer, S M Sehgal Foundation, leading the discussion Community-driven Solutions to Maternal Health Disparities with panelists Zoua Vang, Meta Schroeder Beckner Outreach Professor – Professor of Civil Society & Community Studies; Director, Maternal Child Health Equity & Safety Lab, School of Human Ecology, UW–Madison; Dr. Jill Denson, Research Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Director, UW Prevention Research Center; and Dr. Tiwaladeoluwa Adekunle, Assistant Professor, Reproductive and Population Health, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Global Health Tuesday: Measles Outbreak & Vaccines

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EVENT DATE: September 30, 2025, 9-10am (CST), featuring moderator Dr. James Conway, Professor, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Global Pediatrics and Director, Office of Global Health, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; and panelists Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health; Dr. Jonathan Temte, Professor of Family Medicine and Community Health and the Associate Dean for Public Health and Community Engagement, UW School of Medicine and Public Health; and Dr. William Moss, Executive Director of the International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Global Health Tuesday: Cities, Climate Change, & Health

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EVENT DATE: May 20, 2025, 9-10am (CST), featuring moderator Linda Vakunta, Deputy Mayor, City of Madison, and panelists Eduardo Santana Castellón, Director, Museum of Environmental Sciences, and Emeritus Professor, University of Guadalajara; Marta Rofin Serrà, Founder & CEO, Health Cities, and Director, “Urban Planning & Health,” Polytechnic University of Catalonia; and Carlos Moreno, Professor, IAE Paris Sorbonne, University of Paris, and Author, “The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time & Our Planet.”

Global Health Tuesday: Connecting Health Through Impactful Storytelling

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EVENT DATE: March 11, 2025, 10-11am (CST), featuring moderator Sara McKinnon, Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, Communication Arts, & Faculty Director, LACIS, UW–Madison, and panelists Riley Ray Griffin, Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News; Apoorva Mandavilli, Science & Global Health Reporter, New York Times; and Jamie Hansen, Communications Manager, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.