Category: News
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Canada & COP 21: A Conversation with Canadian Consul General Roy Norton
Following recent climate talks, students are eager to participate in conversation about the subject. A student organized event, we invite you to join the Global Connections Committee and Society and…
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GHI supports SVM researcher to help find Zika virus in Colombia, look for ways to stop it
GHI helped fund the doctoral student whose work was key to finding the Zika virus in Columbia.
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Wisc.edu: Medical Students Work in Milwaukee to ‘TRIUMPH’ Over Health Problems
University of Wisconsin medical students are placed in medically undeserved communities outside of Madison to address health challenges. The TRIUMPH program works in Milwaukee's south side where obesity is a…
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Madison Committee on Foreign Relations: Human Health – the Greatest Beneficiary From Climate Change Policy
Join the Madison Committee on Foreign Relations as Jonathan Patz presents Human Health – the Greatest Beneficiary from Climate Change Policy. Registration for this event is required. In December, world…
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Army of students mobilized to work with Monona on first UniverCity Year project
UniverCity Year mobilizes an army of students to boost urban sustainability with its first partner, the city of Monona, Wisconsin.
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High School students explore global health
High School students explore global health
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Climate Change Paris Summit–What happened | Dr. Jonathan Patz
GHI Director Jonathan Patz shares insights from the United Nations climate change conference in Paris. The Conference of the Parties led to a December agreement in which nations around the…
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Bird Habitat Changing Quickly As Climate Change Proceeds
The climatic conditions needed by 285 species of land birds in the United States have moved rapidly between 1950 and 2011 as a result of climate change, according to a…
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Live From Paris: Connecting Wisconsin and the U.N. Climate Talks
Watch the video as GHI Director Jonathan Patz and colleagues report live from the United Nations climate talks in Paris.
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Wis. Academy: The promise of Paris: An interview with Wisconsin leadership at COP21
The Wisconsin Academy interviews panelists from "Live from Paris" about their hopes for the climate talks.
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Syrian Conflict: Politics, Migration and Health
Karen Solheim, director of Global Health Initiatives in the School of Nursing, and Jennifer Loewenstein, former associate director for the UW-Madison Middle Eastern Studies Program and senior lecturer at Penn…
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Cap Times: Wisconsin climate change panel beams optimism from Paris conference
“The optimism is palpable,” UW law professor Sumudu Atapattu said, speaking live via teleconference from the COP21 conference on climate change in Paris to about 200 environmental activists and interested…
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Our City of Nations – Inaugural Conference refugee and recent immigrant health and wellness
This October marks the 50th anniversary of the 1965 Immigration and Naturalization Act. Motivated by the desire to attain improved effective care for and response to complex refugee/immigrant wellness needs,…
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Live from Paris: Connecting Wisconsin to the U.N. Climate Talks
The United Nations 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) is meeting this December in Paris, where nations are expected to ratify a new universal climate change agreement that will lower carbon emissions.…
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Africa at Noon
Africa at Noon – December 2, 2015. Guerrilla Healthcare Innovation: Creative Resilience in Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga, 1971-1980 Clapperton Mavhunga Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society…
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Resurgent Street Markets: Social, Political, Economic and Health Impacts
Crossroads of Ideas UW experts on current events This public lecture series, held at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of most months, addresses challenging and engaging social science topics…
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WORT: UW participates in Paris Climate Change Conference
GHI Director Jonathan Patz and the Law School's Sumudu Atapattu visit with WORT about forced migration, the health effects of climate change, and the U.N. climate summit in Paris.