The Giant Snorflaggle, resplendent in a fantastic top hat, wings to fly and a pointed tail, is on the job to help children understand the coronavirus pandemic. “Parents need to wash their hands. Kids need to wash their hands. Even the Giant Snorflaggle needs to wash its hands – all four!” That’s the message in …
The report – funded in part by GHI and 4W – used responses given by 503 Wisconsin residents to a survey researchers at the university conducted from March 26 to April 1 asking 2,251 U.S. adults to self-report their physical distancing practices.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) joins policy-makers along with medical, academic and non-profit organizations from around the world to call on the World Health Organization to form a Global Health Equity Task Force. The letter comes in light of the escalating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerable and marginalized populations across …
This year’s Wisconsin Without Borders award winners are especially involved with global health and well-being.
GHI team members join campus-wide collaboration to understand and respond to COVID-19.
Aurora St. Luke and UW Hospital are part of a nationwide clinical trial to determine if antibodies from a recovered coronavirus patient can help others.
UW-Madison researchers weigh in on how climate change can contribute to virus transmission.
GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg is part of the Unionid Mussel Strike Force to solve the mystery of fresh water mussel die-offs.
Forced to choose between staying away from others to prevent the spread of a pandemic and casting a ballot in Wisconsin’s April 7 election, crowds lined up at polling places across the state — including thousands funneled to five sites in Milwaukee. New data shows that Wisconsinites traveled more during Tuesday’s election than they did …
Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Hospital, is helping lead UW Health’s response to COVID-19.