University of Wisconsin–Madison

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“Experimental Approaches to Disparities: Manipulations of Neighborhood Disadvantage in a Virtual Environment”

Neighborhood disadvantage is an independent predictor of health and development.  However, the breadth of causal inferences that can be drawn regarding neighborhood effects is limited due to the conceptual and methodological challenges of large-scale interventions.  Moreover, it has been hypothesized that neighborhoods influence health, in part, through how social and physical environments impact emotion, health …

Donna Shalala: “Women, Well-being, Wisconsin, the World”

Donna E. Shalala is the president of the Clinton Foundation. Previously, she served as Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1987 to 1993, and as president of the University of Miami and Professor of Political Science. She also served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. Shalala returns to campus to remind listeners …

Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex (STREETS)

Jean M. Geran and Araceli Alonso, co directors of the UW-STREETS initiative, lead the session to introduce UW-Madison’s new anti-trafficking initiative that seeks to support local and global work to end trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitation. Through education and action research, STREETS is grounded in the perspectives and preferences of survivors, becoming a powerful …

The Transformation of Women’s Health

To Change the Future of Women is a call to women and men, world leaders, influencers and individuals to commit to the Power of 1 action of change for the future of women. Whether One woman or One man helps another woman, when we align our collaborative efforts for scale, together we create the greatest …