Mariaelena Huambachano has spent her life crossing cultures: Of Quechua lineage, she was born and raised in Chorillos, Peru, and, at 19, immigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand. She earned her master’s and doctoral degrees to give voice to Indigenous ways of being in Western academia. On April 14, the assistant professor of Civil Society and …
Trees along the Nanay River in the Peruvian rainforest fell as the population exploded, a road was paved and fields expanded. Researchers, including Jonathan Patz, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI), showed the rate of bites from malaria-carrying mosquitoes was more than 200 times higher than in forested areas. Diseases emerge …
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GHI Associate Director James Conway says now is the time to continue strict infection control measures.
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Ajay Sethi, a GHI Advisory Committee member, says don’t let up on pandemic precautions.
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