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2018 GHI Graduation Celebration

When: Thursday May 3rd, 2018, 5:00pm Where: Mendota Room, Dejope Hall   The 2018 Global Health Certificate Graduation Celebration will honor and recognize graduating students who have earned an Undergraduate Certificate or a Graduate | Professional | Capstone Certificate in Global Health. Graduates are invited to join the UW-Madison global health community of faculty, staff, and friends …

Global Health Tuesday: Technology and Diabetic Care in Rural Guatemala

When: April 24th, 4:30 p.m. Where: Health Sciences Learning Center, Room 1309 James Svenson, 2016 GHI Seed Grant recipient, presents on his team’s collaboration with a group from Stanford University to develop a computer-based app that can be used by village health promoters in San Lucas Tolimán, a town of 17,000, to monitor their diabetic …

2018 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being

WHEN: April 12th, 4:00 p.m. — April 14th, 5:00 p.m. WHERE: UW-Madison Pyle Center The annual Wisconsin Women’s and Gender Studies Conference and 4W Summit on Women, Gender and Well-Being presents “Our Bodies, Our Earth: Voice, Violence, and Peacemaking.” The event brings together prominent global leaders, national and international scholars, practitioners, students, artists and community members to …

2018 Global Health Symposium

Professor Susan Paskewitz will be the keynote speaker for the 14th annual Global Health Symposium: Advancing Health in Uncertain Times. The symposium begins at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Paskewitz is professor and chair of the Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. She also is co-director of the Upper …

Graduate•Professional•Capstone Certificates in Global Health open doors for students across campus

  For Teresa Caya, who earned her Graduate•Professional Certificate in Global Health while completing her medical degree, the certificate was a way to plan and carry out an infectious disease global health project in Nicaragua. “We live in a world in which disease and poverty do not respect geographic boundaries,” she says. “Better understanding health …

4W Summit On Women, Gender, and Well-Being

The 4W is seeking proposals on the broadly defined theme of Our Bodies, Our Earth: Voice, Violence, and Peacemaking from across the disciplines addressing feminist perspectives on women, gender and voice in research, scholarship, program development, pedagogy, curriculum, creative work and/or community activism. The 4W interprets ‘voice, violence and peacemaking’ broadly and will consider proposals focused on topics …