Category: News
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Nepal global health field course co-leader and UW-Madison Forward Under Forty recipient featured in Time.
Nepal global health field course co-leader and UW-Madison Forward Under Forty recipient featured in Time.
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First Ever Global Health Study Session/Study Break
The Global Health Institute is hosting a combined study session/study break. You can brush up on your SDGs and NTDs and DALYs, but you can also gossip quietly about Poldark,…
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Director’s Report December 2016
The UW-Madison Global Health Institute invites you to share its stories from the past year.
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PHS Monday Seminar: “Health and Economic Opportunity”
Rourke O’Brien joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in January 2016. O’Brien’s research interests include taxation, household finance, and population health. Current…
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UW-Madison Green Fund Information Session
UW–Madison is launching a $50,000 Green Fund in January 2017 to support student-initiated projects to reduce the environmental footprint and operating costs of campus units such as residence halls, dining…
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Climate Change and Human Rights: Lessons from the Paris Agreement
Despite the potential for climate change to undermine all human rights, it was not recognized as a human rights issue until recently. The international community linked human rights to climate…
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“Tech will take over,” giving rural Africans access to health care
"Tech will take over," say YALI scholars who visited UW-Madison and use mobile apps to deliver better health care and information in rural Africa.
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New, more effective strategy for producing flu vaccines
Researchers led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences and GHI Advisory member, find a new, more effective strategy for producing flu vaccines.
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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.
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2017 Symposium Call for Abstracts
Members of the UW-Madison and extended global health community are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 2017 Global Health Symposium.
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“What does global health mean to you?”
GHI welcomed 40 students from seven area high schools for High School Global Health Day.
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Global Health Tuesday: At the intersection of Wisconsin’s Hepatitis C and opioid epidemics
Lauren Stockman, MPH, is an epidemiologist in the AIDS/HIV Program at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, whose work focuses on describing the changing epidemiology of the hepatitis C virus…
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UW to examine women’s roles in peacemaking in Africa
UW-Madison is hosting a project designed to explore women’s existing roles in African peacemaking and to see what lessons can be gleaned from their mostly informal initiatives.
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UW-Madison sixth in research rankings
For the first time since 1972, UW-Madison has dropped out of the top five, to sixth in the research rankings.
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Medical Student Research Forum
In recognition of medical student research and the accomplishments of more than 100 second year medical students who conducted research last summer, you are cordially invited to attend the 15th…
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PHS Monday Seminar: Research update on health “co-benefits” of climate mitigation scenarios
GHI Director Jonathan Patz takes a closer look at the latest research on the health “co-benefits” of climate mitigation. Patz is a pioneer in making connections between climate and health…
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International Education Week: Nov 14-18
NOVEMBER 14-18, 2016 International Education Week celebrates the benefits of international education through events, programs and other activities on campus. See the events below or view the flyer. Find events hosted…
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A compound interest approach to HIV cure
Individuals from infectious disease, global health, MMI, engineering, and the computational biology community will all find this talk of interest and will come away with new knowledge. It will be…
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Bagels & Research: Empowerment Research with Women in Agricultural Communities in Northern Ghana
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is used to track changes in women’s empowerment that are a direct or indirect result of the US government’s interventions under the Feed…
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Annual Badger Bioneers Conference
At Badger Bioneers, local leaders and innovators will foster connections and discover intersections – because that’s what Big ‘S’ Sustainability is all about. Through interactive learning, inspiring speakers, and collaborative sharing, participants will…
