Category: Health Systems
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Artist creates free downloadable coloring book to keep kids busy at home
Artist Will Santino worked with Lori DiPrete Brown and a UW COVID communications task force to create coloring pages to help children understand the coronavirus.
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WPR: Hospitals in Madison, Milwaukee testing plasma treatment for COVID-19 patients
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.
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Climate change affects everything: Even the coronavirus
UW-Madison researchers weigh in on how climate change can contribute to virus transmission.
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State may have seen COVID-19 peak without big surge, but officials say risk remains
Wisconsin is still flattening the curve of the coronavirus, and researchers say it could get worse without maintaining strict guidelines.
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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…
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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.
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Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene works with campus partners to test for COVID-19
As COVID-19 has infected more than 1 million people around the world — and more than 2,500 Wisconsin residents — since late December 2019, everything from nose-and-throat swabs to the…
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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,…
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UW-Madison publishing and printing team makes face shields for UW Hospital workers
MADISON – Trying to unwind after a long, hectic day working at UW Health, Leigh Larson couldn’t fall asleep. As director of graduate medical education and medical staff administration, her…
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Hope to get nasal vaccine against Covid-19 into market in 12-18 months
Krishna Ella, a GHI Board of Visitors member and chairman of Bharat Biotech, discusses the COVID-19 vaccine collaboration.
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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.
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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."
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COVID-19 disrupts a major year for biodiversity policy and planning
GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg says crisis is delaying efforts to preserve biodiversity.
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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.