University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Leadership

EcoHealth, like GHI, calls for climate/health action

EcoHealth, like GHI, calls for addressing climate change to benefit human, animal and ecosystem health.

Fulbright Award Takes Patz to Ethiopia

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

Dr. Jim Conway on the Larry Meiller Show

Listen to this interview with Dr. Jim Conway on the Larry Meiller Show to learn more about the importance of vaccinations.

Officials, Parents Evaluate Vaccine Exemptions As Some Diseases Are Resurgent

Dr. Jim Conway, one of GHI’s Associate Directors, talks about the dangers of vaccination exemptions parents are choosing for their children.

Tony Goldberg’s work in Nature

Nature medicine news profiles Dr. Tony Goldberg’s discovery of a previously unknown tick in equatorial Africa. It rode home, unknown to him, in his right nostril.

New MOOCs to focus on environmental and community themes, Patz to teach ‘Climate change and public health’

Take this opportunity to learn about new Massive Open Online Courses being offered through UW!

After long quest, climate/public health pioneer applauds Obama’s historic emissions order

Check out this story on Dr. Patz’s input on President Obama’s executive order regarding climate change

GHI Director, Jonathan Patz, presents “Water Resources and Health: New threats from disrupting the earth’s climate” at Madison Rotary

Check out this recording of a talk on climate change, water resources and health by Jonathan Patz.

DiPrete Brown revisits personal journey through novel

Check out this article about our very own, Lori Diprete Brown, and the inspiration for her latest novel.

Symposium links human, animal, environmental health

Check out this article on the Global Health Symposium at UW-Madison!