Wisconsin Public Radio COVID-19 Update
GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi joins WPR for a discussion on new masking guidelines, transmission among unvaccinated individuals and more.
GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi joins WPR for a discussion on new masking guidelines, transmission among unvaccinated individuals and more.
GHI Director Jonathan Patz shares insight on new research linking climate change to global heat deaths.
Professor and Global Health Institute Director Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, was well along in his research linking climate change to health when he arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004—then everything took off. “My research and science accelerated when I hit UW-Madison,” says Patz, who has faculty appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental …
With its 2021 grants and awards, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) again funds projects from across campus and across disciplines. From traditional knowledge to land use to cervical cancer, faculty, staff, clinicians and students will use the awards to look at the complex determinants of health and well-being. The awards go to …
A dozen Wisconsin K-12 teachers went back to school for the last year to learn more about the connections between the health of humans and the health of the planet. The K-12 teachers from Madison, Middleton, Milwaukee and Montello were part of the Planetary Health Partnership, a new professional learning program offered by the University …
Watch the videos from GHI’s 16th Global Health Symposium, “Fostering Resilience Through Indigenous Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge.” Find land acknowledgement resources as well.
Now: Check out the videos from the Spring 2021 Global Health Tuesday webinars, from COVID-19 to Planetary Health.
The UW-Madison Global Health Institute is hiring a postdoctoral research associate who will work with GHI Director Jonathan Patz and faculty from The Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Applications are due May 14. Requirements: Ideal candidates should have a doctoral degree in any of the following fields: Environmental Sciences, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Science, Environmental Epidemiology, …
Watch the symposium videos. Patricia Tellez-Giron, M.D., who grew up in Mexico, knows first-hand the challenges of immigrants. As a family medicine doctor and community activist, she’s cared for the Latinx community in Madison for decades. “Almost everything I do is because the Latinx community is a community that has been in the shadows for …
GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi shares insight on how vaccinated individuals can have open conversations about risk, comfort levels as they navigate under relaxed social guidance.