Category: News
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Apply now for Medical Spanish for Health Science Students
Health science students are invited to apply now for Medical Spanish (Medical Sciences 622-735). The class helps students improve their Spanish-language skills in a medical interviewing context and effectively interact…
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Health access program bridges micro-finance, health for Uganda’s poor
Health access program bridges micro-finance, health for Uganda’s poor
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Community Development in Ethiopia: Project Mercy’s Holistic Approach to Alleviating Poverty
Project Mercy began its work in Africa nearly 40 years ago, providing aid (shelter, food, health care, education and resettlement assistance) to refugees in seven countries. For the past 24 years, the organization has…
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Five UW-Madison Professors, including GHI Advisory Committee member Jeanette Roberts, named AAAS Fellows
Five UW-Madison Professors, including Jeanette Roberts, GHI Advisory Committee member, named AAAS Fellows
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In the heart of devastating outbreak, research team unlocks secrets of Ebola
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host & Microbe, a scientific team led by the UW–Madison has…
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2018 Global Health Symposium
The Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to welcome Professor Susan Paskewitz as the keynote speaker for the 14th annual Global Health Symposium: Advancing Health in…
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Apply now for 2018 global health grants
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) is pleased to announce the application period is open for its 2018 grants and awards. This competitive grant program is designed to…
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Director Jonathan Patz to speak at TEDxOshkosh: Climate Change is Affecting Our Health. Is There a Cure?
GHI Director Jonathan Patz has been selected to speak at the 2017 TEDxOshkosh event. Here he will discuss climate change and its connection to public health problems – from alterations…
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Undergraduate Global Health Field Course Fair
Interested in learning about how to improve the health of people, all life and the environment without necessarily practicing medicine? Would you like to know what makes people healthy in…
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Strength in Connection: GHI Director’s Report October 2017
Strength In Connection, the October 2017 Global Health Institute Director’s Report is now available online. Learn about GHI’s education program and our future leaders. Check in with virus sleuth Tony…
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Building Community 2017: A Global Health Celebration
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute is a community builder and catalyst that pulls together colleagues from across campus and communities across the world to tackle today’s health challenges.…
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Graduate | Health Sciences Global Health Field Courses Information Session
Graduate and health sciences students are invited to learn about summer 2018 field courses in Ecuador, Guatemala, Thailand and Uganda. Hear about the people you’ll meet, places you’ll visit, classes…
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Wisconsin Ecology 23rd Annual Fall Symposium
We are pleased to host Dr. Julian Olden, a Professor in the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences at the University of Washington, as keynote speaker at the…
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International Dairy Short Course
The International Dairy Short Course celebrates its 20th year of education this October. The 2017 dairy course will feature farm visits, hands-on workshops and lectures from top-ranked professors and dairy…
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The Guardian: Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food
Quitting coal: a health benefit equivalent to quitting tobacco, alcohol and fast-food: Jonathan Patz
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Healio: Climate crisis expected to contribute to global disease burden
Global climate crisis involves temperatures, sea levels, melting glaciers, extreme weather that will impact children's health, Patz says.
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WIZM: Study shows monkeys contracted CWD from infected deer meat, shows possibility to humans
CWD could affect humans; get your deer tested, says Keith Poulsen, a GHI Advisory Committee member with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Patz — Tax on hybrids and electric vehicles is poor economic policy
Tax on electric hybrids is poor economic policy, GHI Director Jonathan Patz says.
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With deer season on horizon, lab ramps up for CWD testing
With deer season on horizon, lab ramps up for CWD testing