Category: News
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11th Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference
Post-apocalyptic films and books are more popular than ever, with recent titles like The Hunger Games, The Passage, Snowpiercer and The Walking Dead joining a rapidly growing list. What drives…
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PHS Monday Seminar: John Mullahy, PhD, “Understanding Patients’ Time in Contact with Healthcare Providers”
This seminar will consider some conceptual and empirical aspects of the time patients spend in contact with healthcare providers. Under different circumstances, non-contact with providers may or may not be…
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Cooperative development in Ghana: Brown bag seminar
Mindy Habecker from UW Extension will share her experiences working with 65 farmers in rural southeastern Ghana near Ada. The two week project through Farmer to Farmer, US AID was to…
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Pleasure and the Pleasurable in Africa and the African Diaspora
This conference will be a lively interrogation of an uncommon theme in the scholarly study of Africa and the African diaspora: pleasure. The uncommonness is not surprising, given the constituent…
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Representing Research in International Organizations: A Panel on Bridging Gaps
Organizations working in international development, particularly large national and multilateral institutions, are increasingly focused on generating and documenting knowledge about the issues at the center of their work. However, researchers…
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Joint Learning Community: Global Privilege
Wisconsin Without Borders is hosting a joint learning meeting at the Morgridge Center for Public Service Round Room. The topic being discussed is “Global Privilege.” The learning community will be joined by Jane…
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Africa at Noon: “Contamination of Subsistence Fisheries in Tropical Africa by Neurotoxic Metals: Health Risks and Sources of Mercury”
Our team will discuss our new findings on mercury concentrations and isotope ratios in food fish harvested in Gabon, Rep. Congo, Tanzania, and Kenya, and place these statistics in a…
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2017-18 Wisconsin Idea Fellowships awarded to seven projects
Global Health certificate earner among those awarded Wisconsin Idea Fellowships.
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PHS Monday Seminar: An Investigation of Lead Exposures Among Workers at a Wisconsin Shipyard
Background: Lead exposure can cause adverse health effects and is a known occupational hazard in the shipyard industry. On March 28, 2016, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and Wisconsin…
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Climate Change: Clearer than Ever
The climate of our state, our country and the world is evolving rapidly. Vital resources of land, water, environment and infrastructure are threatened by rising temperature and changes in intensity…
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Center for Culture History and Environment & Terra Incognita Present: William deBuys Colloqium: “Not Shutting Down: Staying Engaged in an Era of Environmental Loss,”
Can the beauty of Earth re-inspire us even in the most trying times? Environmental historians (and journalists) face the challenge of telling stories that are true (and therefore too often…
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The Disease Detective
GHI Associate Director and disease detective Tony Goldberg is profiled in On Wisconsin magazine.
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Local Government Summit: Building Sustainable Communities through Energy & Resilience
Through the Climate & Energy Initiative, the Wisconsin Academy and partners will convene a full-day summit to empower local Wisconsin leaders to advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and resilience across the…
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2017 Global Health Symposium: For Our Planet, For Our Health
For Our Planet, For Our Health, the Global Health Institute’s 2017 Global Health Symposium will be from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in the Health Sciences Learning Center.…
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Healthy Food, Healthy Land, and Supply Chain Sustainability
Government programs seek to encourage sustainable environmental practices on America’s farms and ranches. The marketplace, however, may provide more opportunities to accomplish these same goals. Consumers drive the decisions of…
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WEI Forward in Energy Forum
The next Forward in Energy Forum explores how energy decisions impact human health and the health of all life. The presenters are Chris Kucharik, professor of agronomy and environmental studies;…
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When doctors were kings: Exploring the remains of a colonial medical utopia in East Cameroon
Guillaume Lachenal is an associate professor in the history of science at the Universite Paris Diderot. His research themes include empire, medicine and decolonization, and the history and anthropology of…
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Global Health Tuesday: Talking Health Out Loud with Susan Gold
Nurse Susan Gold, RN, BSN, ACRN, who works in the UW Health HIV Clinic and Pediatric Infectious Disease Clinic, has volunteered as a nurse in East Africa since 2003, discusses her…
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The Wisconsin Idea in action: A brief history of GHI
The Wisconsin Idea leads to collaboration and community engagement to advance global health at UW-Madison's Global Health Institute.
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Brownbag: Where is the power?
Heidi Busse, postdoctoral research associate with the Center for Community and Nonprofit Studies, shares lessons using participatory methods to understand how socio-ecological factors influence diets and food environments in rural…