University of Wisconsin–Madison

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UW Delegation To Colombia: Collaboration Now & Into The Future

UW Delegation to Colombia: Collaboration Now & In The Future.

The Global Health Institute (GHI) is an agent for collaboration, rooted in the Wisconsin Idea.

Sara McKinnon: Illuminating Migration in the Americas

Sara McKinnon in Necoclí, Colombia, learning about the important work of the Interagency Group for Mixed Migration (GIFMM in Spanish) and their #gifmmcontigo information campaign, providing people with access to information to keep them safe in transit. (Photo from Migration in the Americas Project) By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Ever since UW-Madison Professor Sara McKinnon started …

From Treating to Preventing: Meet UW’s Global Virus Network Scholar, Karl Ciuoderis

Karl Ciuoderis (left) and GHI Director Jorge Osorio conducting field research in the Amazon in Colombia. (Photo from Abbott) By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Growing up in the Colombian countryside, Karl Ciuoderis knew he wanted to help animals. His love for domestic animals grew as they delightfully surrounded him on his family’s property. “It was like …

Global Health Tuesday: Global Health Grant Trends

EVENT DATE: February 20, 2024, 9-10am (CST), featuring GHI Director Jorge Osorio as moderator, with panelists Chris Karp and Peter Kilmarx.

Badger to Badger: UW–Madison students Brody Andes and Natalia Betancourt Rodriguez intern at GHI-One Health Center-Colombia

Welcome to this special segment of GHI News, where communications intern Kendall Buehl will share the amazing stories of UW–Madison students collaborating with the Global Health Institute. By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Over the 2023 summer term, UW–Madison students Brody Andes and Natalia Betancourt Rodriguez put the Wisconsin Idea into global action. As part of the …

The Inspiration Behind The Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative: Meet Abdullah Keles

By Katie Newcomb, GHI Communications Director…Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative (MMI) Founder Abdullah Keles, MD, saw a problem and wanted to solve it. The problem, illuminated through his work as Mustafa K. Baskaya Lab Manager within the Department of Neurological Surgery in UW–Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, was the lack of available microscopes and microneurosurgery …

Augmenting Microgrid Systems in Colombia: GHI Partners with Rebecca Alcock (ISyE)

By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Rebecca Alcock, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is constantly working to innovate in the field of global health systems engineering. Alcock received a bachelor’s degree (2018) and a master’s degree (2020), both in Biomedical Engineering, from UW–Madison, and started …

GHI Holds 2023 Advisory Committee Meeting/Retreat

By Katie Newcomb, GHI Communications Director…On August 8, 2023, more than 40 advisory members, GHI staff, and friends attended the Global Health Institute’s (GHI) Advisory Committee Meeting/Retreat at Olbrich Botanical Gardens. The meeting goals were to share the work GHI has accomplished in the past year, highlight the vision moving forward, thank members for their …