UW general surgery resident Dr. Callistus Ditah, local surgeon Dr. Nebyou, and UW vascular surgeon Dr. Paul DiMusto after a case in the OR. GOING GLOBAL IN GENERAL SURGERY: RESIDENT RETURNS FROM DEPARTMENT’S FIRST INTERNATIONAL ROTATION Increasingly, a modern surgeon is a global surgeon. Whether through clinical service or research collaborations, today’s surgeons do global …
When: Sunday May 6th, 2018, 1:00pm In honor of Robin Mittenthal, the Midvale Earth Partnership and Garden Committee is hosting Garden Prep Day. Robin Mittenthal, who touched hundreds of student lives as manager, advisor, mentor and field course leader for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health, died suddenly at the end of 2017. …
The Country Today: From farm to field, UW researcher and GHI Advisory Committee member Michel Wattiaux follows greenhouse gas footprints of cows
New York Times: GHI Advisory Committee member James Cleary discusses government's role in opioid epidemic
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 …
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 …
CDC Podcasts: Tony Goldberg Talks Deadly Respiratory Disease in Wild Chimpanzees
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 …
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 …
Michel Wattiaux, GHI Advisory Committee member, follows dairy cows’ carbon footprints from barn to field