Morgridge researcher says we need to understand how viruses, produce new ways to arrest their spread and potentially prevent or more quickly quell future pandemics.
Education
Maps provide zip code-level detail on risk of COVID-19 complications across Wisconsin
Artists find ways to help families get through coronavirus pandemic
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 …
Survey finds majority of Wisconsin residents say they practice social distancing ‘very much’
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.
GHI joins call for WHO Equity Task Force
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 …
2020 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards recognize global health efforts
This year’s Wisconsin Without Borders award winners are especially involved with global health and well-being.
Researchers at UW–Madison lead data science coalition to aid with COVID-19
GHI team members join campus-wide collaboration to understand and respond to COVID-19.
Climate change affects everything: Even the coronavirus
UW-Madison researchers weigh in on how climate change can contribute to virus transmission.
UW-Madison researchers tracking travel, social media to help contain virus
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 …
Know your Madisonian: UW Hospital doctor at forefront of COVID-19 pandemic response
Dr. Nasia Safdar, medical director of infection control at UW Hospital, is helping lead UW Health’s response to COVID-19.
Four UW-Madison students named 2020 Goldwater scholars – the most possible for any institution
Among them is junior Elizabeth Sumiec, a global health certificate student.
Sign up for UW-Madison coronavirus newsletter
As we navigate this global pandemic together, the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites you to subscribe to the new COVID-19 Update newsletter, designed to keep you up to date on coronavirus, resources and research from the …
2020 UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards
Congratulations to Paul Block, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, and Andrea Hicks, a Planetary Health Scholars advisor, on receiving this year’s UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award.
Pandemic: COVID-19 documentary
Ajay Sethi, associate professor of Population Health Sciences and a GHI Advisory Committee member, was featured in the Discovery Channel’s “Pandemic: COVID-19.”
COVID-19 disrupts a major year for biodiversity policy and planning
GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg says crisis is delaying efforts to preserve biodiversity.
Wisconsin infectious diseases expert: Allowing in-person voting Tuesday ‘just seems really irresponsible’
GHI Associate Director James Conway says Tuesday election poses significant health risks.
UW NOW features Nasia Safdar on COVID-19 preparedness
UW-Madison’s Nasia Safdar, M.S., Ph.D., talks about the preparedness of the health system to blunt the tide of COVID-19.
UW-Madison, Flugen, Bharat Biotech to develop coroflu, a coronavirus vaccine
UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, is part of an international collaboration developing and testing a COVID-19 vaccine.
Death Projections Can Make Us Feel Helpless. One Expert Explains a Better Way to Get People to Act.
UW-Madison’s Dominique Brossard discusses with Mother Jones how to convince people to take steps to slow COVID-10.
We Can Go the Distance Together: 10 ways you can do your part
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Communication Collaborative for COVID-19 Response has developed 10 essential steps to limit the spread of COVID-19. They reflect the overall need for maintaining a physical distance from each other, washing you …