University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: GHI In the News

Artist creates free downloadable coloring book to keep kids busy at home

Artist Will Santino worked with Lori DiPrete Brown and a UW COVID communications task force to create coloring pages to help children understand the coronavirus.

The Mysterious Demise of Freshwater Mussels

GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg is part of the Unionid Mussel Strike Force to solve the mystery of fresh water mussel die-offs.

Hope to get nasal vaccine against Covid-19 into market in 12-18 months

Krishna Ella, a GHI Board of Visitors member and chairman of Bharat Biotech, discusses the COVID-19 vaccine collaboration.

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.”

COVID-19 disrupts a major year for biodiversity policy and planning

GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg says crisis is delaying efforts to preserve biodiversity.

Wisconsin infectious diseases expert: Allowing in-person voting Tuesday ‘just seems really irresponsible’

GHI Associate Director James Conway says Tuesday election poses significant health risks.

UW NOW features Nasia Safdar on COVID-19 preparedness

UW-Madison’s Nasia Safdar, M.S., Ph.D., talks about the preparedness of the health system to blunt the tide of COVID-19.

UW-Madison, Flugen, Bharat Biotech to develop coroflu, a coronavirus vaccine

UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, is part of an international collaboration developing and testing a COVID-19 vaccine.

OnWisconsin: Bug Bites

More than two billion people around the world regularly consume insects. UW–Madison researchers have documented, for the first time, the health effects of eating them. GHI’s postdoctoral research associate Valerie Stull is the study’s lead author.

WPR: Why climate change is a major public health issue

GHI Director Jonathan Patz explains the connection between climate change and human health and the research he’s been doing.