Jacob Atem will share his journey from a genocide survivor to health activist in his home village. Atem was 6 when his parents were killed, his siblings lost, and his village in southern Sudan was decimated by genocide. He became one of nearly 20,000 “Lost Boys” from South Sudan, orphaned and fleeing war. He fled 1,000 …
The Food Sovereignty Symposium and Festival will be held March 10-12 on the University of Wisconsin campus and surrounding sites in Madison, Wisconsin. The symposium component of event is focusing on Indigenous and broader topics of food sovereignty that impact how communities and individuals control and manage their food systems, and the festival component is …
Purpose: To bring together women of all backgrounds to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women in many places around the world and to think about ways in which we can accelerate gender parity. Will you Be Bold For Change on International Women’s Day 2017 and beyond by taking groundbreaking action that …
Featured presentations by our director, Jonathan Patz, and Jonathan Sleeman, center director of USGS National Wildlife Health Center. Discussion to follow moderated by Christopher Olsen, professor emeritus, School of Veterinary Medicine and Global Health Institute.
Two of the GHI Graduate Student Research Awards recipients report back on their work to further global health across the world. Camilla Reuterswaerd , a Ph.D., candidate in the Department of Political Science, looks at what happened to reproductive rights in Mexico after abortion was legalized in 2007. Jiang, a graduate student in the Department …
It generates medicines, purifies water, absorbs greenhouse gases and grows our food. Yet most of us know little about soil — in fact, we treat this valuable resource like dirt. Steve Ventura will describe the important ecosystem services derived from healthy soils and present new ideas about how to protect them. Ventura, the UW-Madison Gaylord …
When: February 27th, 12 -1 p.m. Where: 1345 HSLC.
Climate resiliency is an important strategy in sustainability planning. However, today’s buildings are designed to operate in the future using weather data from the past. Research suggests that predicted energy savings from green buildings may be significantly different than actual building performance in coming years due to the changing climate. Douglas Ahl, director of research …
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An environmental health conference hosted by the Wisconsin Environmental Health Network (WEHN). This two-day conference will be held in Madison, WI on February 17th and 18th, and will feature guest lecturers from around Wisconsin and the nation. A wide range of topics will be covered, including endocrine disruptors such as BPA, the potential health impacts of our …