Rob Wallace, an evolutionary biologist visiting the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, kicks off a new programming series for UW-Madison’s African Studies program. He will discuss Ebola and One Health as part of the African Studies lecture series on “One Health and the History of Infectious Disease Research.” Wallace’s research addresses …
Presented as part of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine’s Seminar Series, Dr. Esper Kallas will discuss the Zika Virus. Esper G. Kallas, M.D., Ph.D., is an Infectious Diseases Specialist and a Professor of Medicine at the Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergy at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He has been conducting clinical …
Viviana Krsticevic, executive director of the Center for Justice and International Law in Washington, D.C., delivers the annual Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture. She will discuss “Judging and Gender in the International Realm.” The lecture will focus on the dearth of female representation in international tribunals and monitoring bodies, and the impact the …
Global Health Institute Director Jonathan Patz and Assistant Scientist Jason Vargo will discuss their work in Ethiopia with the Bikable Bahir Dar initiative.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the Gallup Indian Medical Center developed a partnership for medical resident electives on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico. Stephen Warrick, MD, MEd, FAAP, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, will discuss how the program was developed and ways to participate in a rotation. …
UniverCity Alliance helps Wisconsin communities innovate, grow
Jonathan Patz speaks about climate change and public health on Boston’s WBUR
Former GHI advisory member David Gaus, MD, MPH, receives national honor from American Academy of Family Physicians
UW-Madison’s International Division and Center for South Asia are excited to invite you to the opening reception of Focus on India, a semester-long program highlighting, encouraging, and catalyzing the current and potential collaborative work being done between UW-Madison faculty, staff, and students and Indian institutions and individuals. If you have any questions about this event …
William Powers, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, discusses the Latin American concept of living well that represents a paradigm of sustainability. Bolivia has policies that grant ecosystems the equivalent of human rights. Powers’ field study examines how such policies play out in one of Bolivia’s “ecological municipalities,” the town of Samaipata at the cusp …