University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: One Health

Carbone Cancer Center: Dr. Howard Bailey: Oncologists should promote the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine

Carbone Cancer Center: Dr. Howard Bailey: Oncologists should promote the cancer-preventing HPV vaccine

GROW: Ecuador: Better Health through Messaging

Some communities in Ecuador face high incidences of water-borne illness because of contaminated water or poor hygiene and sanitation. It’s a multipronged problem calling for an interdisciplinary approach combining natural, medical and social sciences. Bret Shaw, a CALS professor of life sciences communication, last year helped implement a social science approach with funding from the …

2016 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards honor eight outstanding projects

This story was first published on the Morgridge Center for Community Service  website site.Eight UW-Madison projects are being honored for their community-engaged focus on global malnutrition, waterborne illness, Wisconsin Native public health, Latina women’s mental health and more. Three of the winners, Marjorie Kersten, Theo Loo and Andrew Denu are global health students. The 2016 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards honor the work of …

International Division, IRIS award seed grants for interdisciplinary research

Global health was well represented when the International Division and IRIS awarded new seed grants.

GHI’s Lori DiPrete Brown, SMPH Dean Robert Golden honored for advancing status of women

Since 2005, the Women’s Philanthropy Council Champion Awards have honored one man and one woman whose efforts have advanced the status of women at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. GHI's Lori DiPrete Brown is among this year's honorees.

Age-Old Traditions, New Media

Life sciences communication professor Patty Loew, a member of the GHI Advisory, fosters intercultural learning with workshops that help tribal teens tell their stories in a digital world.

Global Health Institute supports graduate students, visiting scholars and traveling faculty to study human, animal, environmental health

Girls’ health, open spaces, West Nile virus and cardiac care are among the topics University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators will explore with awards announced March 28, 2016, by the Global Health Institute (GHI). The Institute awarded eight Graduate Student Research Awards, one Faculty-Staff Travel Award and three Visiting Scholar Awards in amounts from $2,500 to $8,000. …

2016 Global Health Symposium: War leads to life lessons, apps to improve health care

Doctors Without Borders veteran and app developer is keynote speaker for 2016 Global Health Symposium.

Wisc: 14th Dalai Lama to visit Madison for live-streamed event on global well-being

The 14th Dalai Lama will be a part of a panel of experts on campus that will discuss global well-being and mindfulness.

Ethiopia graduates first family medicine doctors through residency program developed in partnership with the University of Wisconsin

Seven Ethiopian doctors became the first graduates from the family medicine residency program at Addis Ababa University’s College of Health Sciences.