Category: Health Systems
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Isthmus: Dealing with epidemics–The Ebola Survivor Corps presents a workable model
GHI Assistant Scientist and Grant Writer Sarah Paige founded the Ebola Survivor Corps to empower survivors.
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Scientists describe new model to enhance Zika virus research
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) have developed one of the first mouse models for the study of Zika virus.
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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
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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,…
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International Division, IRIS award seed grants for interdisciplinary research
Global health was well represented when the International Division and IRIS awarded new seed grants.
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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…
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Future doctors are learning preventive medicine and how to take care of whole populations of patients.
Future doctors are learning preventive medicine and how to take care of whole populations of patients.
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NPR: Scientists Report in Real Time on Challenging Zika Research
Anyone can follow the pregnancy of a monkey infected with Zika virus in real time, thanks to an experiment in data sharing unusual for biology.
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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.
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UW-Madison researchers begin work on Zika virus
UW researcher David O'Connor saw first concerns over babies affected by Zika virus.
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Wisc.edu: Medical Students Work in Milwaukee to ‘TRIUMPH’ Over Health Problems
University of Wisconsin medical students are placed in medically undeserved communities outside of Madison to address health challenges. The TRIUMPH program works in Milwaukee's south side where obesity is a…
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What Global Goal will you champion?
The United Nations' Millenium Goals provide a roadmap to a sustainable, healthy future. Which will you champion?
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Global Health is All of Us: 2014-2015 GHI Impact Report
The GHI community worked in Wisconsin and across the world to improve health and well-being for today and for the future. Here are our stories.
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GHI Seed Grant results: Child care, help at home could increase Malian women farmers’ productivity
GHI Seed Grant Results: Child care, help at home could increase Malian women farmers' productivity.
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Global health ethic echoes calls from Aldo Leopold, Pope Francis to care for people and the planet
Global health ethic echoes calls from Aldo Leopold, Pope Francis to care for people and the planet.
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U.S. could learn about cancer prevention—from Rwanda
U.S. could learn about cancer prevention—from Rwanda. Collaboration is key says GHI's James Conway.
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GHI grants support emergency medicine, women, palliative care and more
GHI grants support emergency medicine, women, palliative care and more
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Mitman film looks inside Ebola from Liberian perspective
Professor Gregg Mitman shows the human side of the Liberian Ebola epidemic in his new film "In the Shadow of Ebola."
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Global Health Symposium spans disciplines, generations and the world
The 11th annual Global Health Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison not only brings colleagues together from across disciplines, it provides an intergenerational forum for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty…
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In the midst of Ebola, UW alumna learns to trust science
To many of us, flying into Liberia at the height of the Ebola epidemic would spell only danger. For Dr. Hannah Kirking, a Badger twice over and an epidemic intelligence…
