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Category: GHI In the News

GHI-One Health Center-West Africa in Sierra Leone to expand One Health collaboration efforts locally and globally

GHI is pleased to share the opening of the GHI-One Health Center Sierra Leone, led by Alhaji N’jai with support from Project 1808, Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, University of Sierra Leone, and the Ministry of Health.

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 …

Cutting air pollution emissions would save 50,000 U.S. lives, $600 billion each year

Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness and death, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers. Published today in the journal GeoHealth, the study reports the …

UW–Madison professor shapes UN report on climate change

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report urges immediate action to limit greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors of the economy, including energy, transportation, construction, manufacturing and agriculture. GHI Advisory Committee member, Greg Nemet, is one of the report’s lead authors.