The western side of southern South America harbors rich and endemic biodiversity along the narrow strip of land called Chile. The Humboldt ocean current and the Andean mountains allow unique species to thrive — mountain lions, guanacos, vicuñas and condors. Chile’s unique and diverse ecosystems are largely unknown, and are threatened by the country´s rapidly …
Join a discussion group for “Climate Change Policy and Public Health” massive open online course led by GHI Director Jonathan Patz.
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September’s conference call will feature Zoonotic Diseases. It will be held on Wednesday, September 2, 2015 from 1:00 pm – 2:00pm CST. The conference call will available in the second floor board room at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory (WVDL) The Tentative Meeting Agenda is as follows: Incidence of Clinician-Diagnosed Lyme Disease, United States, 2005-2010 …
GHI Director Jonathan Patz leads a November MOOC on climate change policy and public health.
Participants from Thailand, Nepal, Ethiopia, South Africa, Haiti and the Tibetan community in Dharamasala, India, present their final reports from the Quality Improvement (QI) Leadership Institute. Participants worked with UW-Madison faculty, staff and students, and each other, to apply QI principles to address health challenges in their countries. Lori DiPrete Brown, Global Health Institute associate …
Dr. Endale Sisay Mengesha and Dr. Zerai Kassaye Tarrekegn will be presenting at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Grand Rounds on Thursday, August 27 from 7am-8am.
UW-Madison again ranked among best in the world.