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Vandana Shiva keynotes 2017 4W Summit
Vandana Shiva keynotes 2017 4W Summit.
Water and refugees in the spotlight at Global Health Symposium
Check out photos from the 2017 Global Health Symposium.
Tupesis helps design global health course for health care learners
UW Emergency Physician Janis Tupesis helps create online global health course for medical students/residents.
Wisconsin Without Borders Marketplace makes a difference throughout globe.
Wisconsin Without Borders Marketplace makes a difference throughout globe.
Ntambi’s Uganda courses inspire students to pursue health and service careers
James Ntambi’s field courses inspire students to careers in health and service.
GHI Seed Grant improves emergency care
A GHI Seed Grant led to a new mobile app that gives emergency physicians the information they need when they need it.
Fish, floods and diabetes under scrutiny with four new GHI Seed Grants
Fish, floods and diabetes under scrutiny with four new GHI Seed Grants.
GHI’s Lori DiPrete Brown, SMPH Dean Robert Golden honored for advancing status of women
Since 2005, the Women’s Philanthropy Council Champion Awards have honored one man and one woman whose efforts have advanced the status of women at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. GHI’s Lori DiPrete Brown is among this year’s honorees.
UNESCO Chair provides international stage for global work on gender, well-being and peace
UW-Madison has been awarded a UNESCO Chair on Gender, Well-being and a Culture of Peace, a first for the university in any area and a global platform for the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and for the campus-wide 4W Initiative.
2016 Global Health Symposium: War leads to life lessons, apps to improve health care
Doctors Without Borders veteran and app developer is keynote speaker for 2016 Global Health Symposium.
Wisc.edu: Medical Students Work in Milwaukee to ‘TRIUMPH’ Over Health Problems
University of Wisconsin medical students are placed in medically undeserved communities outside of Madison to address health challenges. The TRIUMPH program works in Milwaukee’s south side where obesity is a rising issue.
Army of students mobilized to work with Monona on first UniverCity Year project
UniverCity Year mobilizes an army of students to boost urban sustainability with its first partner, the city of Monona, Wisconsin.
Project will bring light to Ethiopian villages
UW-Madison and Bahir Dar University work together to develop small-scale electrical grids to bring light to remote villages.
Global health ethic echoes calls from Aldo Leopold, Pope Francis to care for people and the planet
Global health ethic echoes calls from Aldo Leopold, Pope Francis to care for people and the planet.
WUD Global Connections: Sumak Muyo
Join WUD Global Connections for their weekly program, Afternoon Conversation Series, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Friday, April 17, in Prairie Fire (Union South), to hear women of microenterprise group Sumak Muyo tell their story. Ines Bonilla, …
In the midst of Ebola, UW alumna learns to trust science
To many of us, flying into Liberia at the height of the Ebola epidemic would spell only danger. For Dr. Hannah Kirking, a Badger twice over and an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers …
Lori DiPrete Brown among Brava’s 30 Women 2 Watch
DiPrete Brown among Brava’s 30 Women to Watch; Dean Shim imagines well-being for women.
Lori DiPrete Brown reflects on global health at TedxUWMadison
Listen to Lori DiPrete Brown’s TedxUWMadison talk: “Start Small, Change the World” Text of talk available in a blog post from her personal blog. Lori DiPrete Brown, a global public health practitioner with experience in …