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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 …

Bugged: Susan Paskewitz to share why ticks mosquitoes matter to global health

Insects are cool, gorgeous -- and deadly. Susan Paskewitz explains why in her keynote address at the 2018 Global Health Symposium.

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 …

Job posting: GHI is hiring two student interns

GHI is hiring for two student positions: a general/education intern and a communications intern.

Channel3000: Hundreds gather to celebrate International Women’s Day Saturday

Channel3000: Hundreds gather to celebrate International Women's Day Saturday

Global Health Tuesday: Polluted Fish and Cycles of Poverty

2016 GHI Seed Grant Recipient Peter McIntyre discusses his project on tracing the global scope of mercury contamination of inland subsistence fisheries, ecological patterns, health threats and source tracking. This project addresses an unrecognized facet of the cycle of poverty: contamination of food fish with neurotoxins. Mercury from global and local sources biomagnifies in fish, and …

Susan Paskewitz keynotes annual Global Health Symposium

Join the UW-Madison global health community Tuesday, April 10, at Union South for the Global Health Symposium: Advancing Health in Uncertain Times.

GHI joins Wellcome Trust partnership to transform cities for equity, human and planetary health

GHI joins an international, multimillion dollar effort to equitably improve health in cities, for the planet

Chimpanzee deaths in Uganda pinned on human cold virus

Epidemiologist Tony Goldberg investigated primate disease in Uganda – and found the common cold

UW–Madison ranked No. 1 for Peace Corps for second year

UW–Madison ranked No. 1 for Peace Corps for second year