Nepal global health field course co-leader and UW-Madison Forward Under Forty recipient featured in Time.
Nepal global health field course co-leader and UW-Madison Forward Under Forty recipient featured in Time.
Nepal global health field course co-leader and UW-Madison Forward Under Forty recipient featured in Time.
The Global Health Institute is hosting a combined study session/study break. You can brush up on your SDGs and NTDs and DALYs, but you can also gossip quietly about Poldark, Kanye, or whatever is trending. The session is intended in part for students in NS/Agron/Ento 203, and at least one member of the 203 teaching …
The UW-Madison Global Health Institute invites you to share its stories from the past year.
Rourke O’Brien joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in January 2016. O’Brien’s research interests include taxation, household finance, and population health. Current projects explore the social determinants of subnational tax structures, household savings and credit behavior, and the interplay between health and intergenerational economic mobility.
UW–Madison is launching a $50,000 Green Fund in January 2017 to support student-initiated projects to reduce the environmental footprint and operating costs of campus units such as residence halls, dining facilities, and student unions. Areas of interest include energy, water and solid waste.
Despite the potential for climate change to undermine all human rights, it was not recognized as a human rights issue until recently. The international community linked human rights to climate change in documents for the first time in 2010, and 2016 saw the first binding document: the Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on …
"Tech will take over," say YALI scholars who visited UW-Madison and use mobile apps to deliver better health care and information in rural Africa.
Researchers led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences and GHI Advisory member, find a new, more effective strategy for producing flu vaccines.
A GHI Seed Grant led to a new mobile app that gives emergency physicians the information they need when they need it.
Members of the UW-Madison and extended global health community are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 2017 Global Health Symposium.