University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: One Health

Covid Infections in Animals Prompt Scientific Concern

GHI Advisory Member Tony Goldberg has seen devastation among animals as diseases cross from humans to animals.

How politics paralyzed Wisconsin’s pandemic response – and left families to grieve their losses

GHI Advisory Committee members Ajay Sethi and Dominique Brossard consider what makes messaging successful.

COVID-19 model quantifies impact of region-specific social distancing orders

New UW-Madison study quantifies impact of social distancing on COVID-19 caseload.

Madison is home to one of the world’s top virologists

Professor Yoshihiro Kawaok, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, a is studying COVID-19 in his posts at UW-Madison and the University of Tokyo.

New report shows how climate change is affecting Wisconsin’s health now

“Medical Alert: Climate Change is Harming our Health in Wisconsin,” a new report from UW-Madison Professors Jonathan Patz and Dominique Brossard shows how climate change already affects Wisconsinites and what can be done to protect their health.

First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany

At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops leaf-nosed bats. In a necropsy room near the Baltic Sea, researchers try to determine what killed a donkey, a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo and a capybara at a German zoo — all of them suffering from severe brain …

GHI 2019-2020 Impact Report charts progress on health challenges in Wisconsin and across the world

In the 2019-2020 Impact Report, read how the GHI community has worked across disciplines and around the world to address today’s biggest health challenges, from COVID-19j to planetary health, advancing sustainable, equitable health for all.

COVID-19 Poster Project

Public information posters have long been a part of history. The Wisconsin Historical Society sponsored 12 artists and their representation and expression of the COVID-19 pandemic through a new, relevant public information poster. The posters created by Wisconsin artists during the COVID-19 pandemic will become part of the collections at the Society where they can be used by future generations.

Mussel-bola’ Could Be Spreading. Maybe Now You’ll Pay Attention

GHI’s Tony Goldberg shares evidence about a virus connection to mussel die-offs with the New York Times.

UW-Madison temporarily moves classes online after spike in positive COVID tests

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is moving all classes online and quarantining two residence halls due to a spike in positive cases of COVID-19, just one week after students returned to campus.