Acting Surgeon General Boris Lushniak and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy head a list of prestigious speakers, thought leaders at Civil Society Event co-hosted by UW-Madison.
WHO green leader joins GHI’s “Business, Health and Climate” during Climate Week in NYC Dr. Carlos Dora, the World Health Organization’s lead for “Health in a Green Economy,” has been added to the program for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute’s “Business, Health and Climate: Join the Conversation,” a Sept. 22 reception and panel discussion …
WHO’s Charles Dora joins GHI’s New York evening “Business, Climate and Health” with GHI Director Jonathan Patz, Gundersen Health CEO Jeff Thompson and New York climate expert Kizzy Charles-Guzman.
Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute, joins panelists to discuss Health Benefits of Mitigating Climate Change at WHO
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 …
After long quest, climate/public health pioneer applauds Obama’s coal decision
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Check out this story on Dr. Patz’s input on President Obama’s executive order regarding climate change