Health science students are invited to apply now for Medical Spanish (Medical Sciences 622-735). The class helps students improve their Spanish-language skills in a medical interviewing context and effectively interact with Spanish-speaking patients from the community. Students earn one credit in the class taught by Araceli Alonso, R.N., Ph.D., an associate faculty member in the Department …
Health access program bridges micro-finance, health for Uganda’s poor
Project Mercy began its work in Africa nearly 40 years ago, providing aid (shelter, food, health care, education and resettlement assistance) to refugees in seven countries. For the past 24 years, the organization has focused exclusively in Ethiopia with integrated development programs that engage communities to eradicate poverty. The programs include education, health care, adult literacy and vocational training, farming, cattle-breeding, …
Five UW-Madison Professors, including Jeanette Roberts, GHI Advisory Committee member, named AAAS Fellows
In a comprehensive and complex molecular study of blood samples from Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, published in Cell Host & Microbe, a scientific team led by the UW–Madison has identified signatures of Ebola virus disease that may aid in future treatment efforts.
The Global Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is pleased to welcome Professor Susan Paskewitz as 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 …
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) is pleased to announce the application period is open for its 2018 grants and awards. This competitive grant program is designed to support global health efforts of faculty, staff and graduate students across campus, fostering the Wisconsin Idea locally and globally. This year, the Institute will offer …
GHI Director Jonathan Patz has been selected to speak at the 2017 TEDxOshkosh event. Here he will discuss climate change and its connection to public health problems – from alterations in infectious disease transmission to water-source compromise, malnutrition, air pollution, and other factors. Patz will draw from the latest research to show the health and …
Interested in learning about how to improve the health of people, all life and the environment without necessarily practicing medicine? Would you like to know what makes people healthy in different communities—and learn from different cultures and experts around the world about the determinants of health? Are you wondering how to complete the field course …
Strength In Connection, the October 2017 Global Health Institute Director’s Report is now available online. Learn about GHI’s education program and our future leaders. Check in with virus sleuth Tony Goldberg See how GHI grants fuel research across campus Discover how the GHI Quality Improvement Leadership Institute connected with the Dalai Lama Understand how GHI …