Category: One Health
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2019 Global Health Symposium tackles “Health in the Balance”
Infectious disease expert Mary Wilson keynotes the 15th annual Global Health Symposium with "Bugs and Drugs: A Shifting Landscape."
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Call for abstracts: UW National One Health Day Colloquium
Abstracts must be received by Monday, October 29.
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Building Community 2018: A Global Health Celebration
October 18: GHI invites you to Building Community 2018, an annual event that brings together the greater global health community and looks toward new opportunities to ensure health and well-being…
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GHI Associate Director Lori DiPrete Brown shares her global experience in new book, a webinar and a seminar
October 30: GHI Associate Director Lori DiPrete Brown will give a Global Health Tuesday talk about the future directors of global health education and UW-Madison's role.
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In dangerous fungal family’s befriending of plants, a story of loss
GHI Advisory Committee member Anne Pringle and other researchers show that gene loss — not the evolution of new genes — helped drive the fly amanita mushroom into its symbiotic…
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Strength in Community: GHI issues its 2017-2018 annual report
"Across campus and the planet, we work together to tackle health challenges," GHI Director Jonathan Patz writes in the report's introduction. "Together, we are working toward a more just, sustainable,…
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Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Lab has new director, new direction
UW-Madison veterinarian and GHI Advisory Committee member Keith Poulsen assumed official leadership of the agency, which plays a critical role in preserving animal health and the integrity of the state’s…
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An ocean apart, carnivorous pitcher plants create similar communities
In new research, GHI Advisory Committee member Anne Pringle and others revealed that the communities created inside pitcher plants converge just as the shape and function of the plants themselves…
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Mandela Fellows Reflect on time in Madison with Wisconsin Public Radio
“Introducing Wisconsin To Some Of Africa’s Brightest Young Individuals,” showcases the associate director of UW-Madison’s African Studies program, Aleia McCord, as well as two Mandela Washington Fellows, Bridget Otoo (Ghana)…
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Eating crickets can be good for your gut, according to new clinical trial
Valerie Stull, a recent doctoral graduate of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, is the lead author of a new pilot clinical trial that looks at what eating crickets does to…
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Henry Anderson award inspires confidence, buoys work in One Health
Grad student Laurel Myers bridges human-animal health with help from the new Henry Anderson research award.
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The story of milk: Strategies and policy implications for ensuring safe milk production in Ethiopia
September 6: Join GHI visiting scholar Mestawet Taye as she discusses recommendations to inform Ethiopia-specific milk quality standards to ensure safe milk production, processing and consumption.
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A new CDC-funded center at UW looks to stay a step ahead of the upper Midwest’s ticks and mosquitos
GHI Advisory Committee members Susan Paskewitz and Lyric Bartholomay are leading a new consortium that's looking to provide answers to how people can be better prepared to respond to vector-borne…
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GHI funds 16 unique projects dedicated to improving health for all
The grant recipients come from seven different schools on campus, including the Schools of Education, Veterinary Medicine and Medicine and Public Health. For the first time, GHI also awarded the…
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Finding a weak link in the frightful parasite Schistosoma
The parasitic disease schistosomiasis is one of the developing world’s worst public health scourges, affecting hundreds of millions of people, yet only a single, limited treatment exists to combat the…
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PLOS Collections: Climate Change and Health
During July PLOS Medicine is publishing a special issue on climate change and health guest edited by GHI Director Jonathan Patz and Columbia University’s Madeleine Thomson. The issue focuses on…
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Zika virus infection may multiply risk of miscarriage, stillbirth
Researchers at six National Primate Research Centers (NPRCs) combined results from individual studies to find that 26 percent of pregnancies in 50 monkeys infected with Zika virus during the first…
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GHI Advisory Committee member Yoshihiro Kawaoka creates tool allowing scientists to witness influenza infection in a living animal
FluVision provides a window into a world none have seen before, allowing scientists to observe and better understand what happens when a virus infects the lungs and the body responds.
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2018 Mandela Washington Fellows bring global expertise to UW campus
This year more than ever, UW-Madison’s programming will feature opportunities for Fellows to share their expertise with the campus and community.
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New book explores link between social, environmental challenges
GHI Grant Writer Daegan Miller's book “This Radical Land: A Natural History of American Dissent” explores ideas of freedom, justice and progress through four interlocked essays.
