Helping Communities Prepare for Change
Nelson Institute scientists predict a sharp rise in annual temperatures in the coming decades, and the Institute with other agencies is helping Wisconsin communities prepare for change.
Nelson Institute scientists predict a sharp rise in annual temperatures in the coming decades, and the Institute with other agencies is helping Wisconsin communities prepare for change.
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. Alhaji N'jai, founder of the Madison, WI and Sierra Leone based nonprofit organization Project 1808 speaks out about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Listen to this interview with Dr. Jim Conway on the Larry Meiller Show to learn more about the importance of vaccinations.
Dr. Jim Conway, one of GHI's Associate Directors, talks about the dangers of vaccination exemptions parents are choosing for their children.
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.
Making a better flip-flop to overcome illiteracy and disease
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 …
Graduate Students Take on Global Health Challenges
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