Category: One Health
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New virus found during investigation into largemouth bass fish kill
GHI associate director Tony Goldberg identifies new emerging disease in Wisconsin's largemouth bass.
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Global health through the lens of a social scientist at UW
When the deadly Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency. Groups of global health experts marched to the frontline,…
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Fish, floods and diabetes under scrutiny with four new GHI Seed Grants
Fish, floods and diabetes under scrutiny with four new GHI Seed Grants.
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Advancing Palliative Care
Two of the world’s leading medical journals recently turned to the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s (SMPH) palliative-care leaders to frame important end-of-life care issues.
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UW-Madison students awarded summer fellowships for community-based projects
Coming to a Wisconsin community near you this summer: New sustainability initiatives. Or perhaps, Shakespeare. All part of the second-annual Wisconsin Open Education Community Fellowships.
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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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2016 Wisconsin Without Borders Awards honor eight outstanding projects
This story was first published on the Morgridge Center for Community Service website site.Eight UW-Madison projects are being honored for their community-engaged focus on global malnutrition, waterborne illness, Wisconsin Native public health, Latina women’s…
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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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GHI’s Lori DiPrete Brown, SMPH Dean Robert Golden honored for advancing status of women
Since 2005, the Women’s Philanthropy Council Champion Awards have honored one man and one woman whose efforts have advanced the status of women at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. GHI's Lori…
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Age-Old Traditions, New Media
Life sciences communication professor Patty Loew, a member of the GHI Advisory, fosters intercultural learning with workshops that help tribal teens tell their stories in a digital world.
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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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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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Wisc: 14th Dalai Lama to visit Madison for live-streamed event on global well-being
The 14th Dalai Lama will be a part of a panel of experts on campus that will discuss global well-being and mindfulness.
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Ethiopia graduates first family medicine doctors through residency program developed in partnership with the University of Wisconsin
Seven Ethiopian doctors became the first graduates from the family medicine residency program at Addis Ababa University’s College of Health Sciences.
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“Promise of Paris:” Watch the video
If you missed "The Promise of Paris," watch the video now as a Wisconsin panel reviews the U.N. climate talks' impact on Wisconsin.
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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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Global access to medical opioids for severe pain still lacking
GHI Special Advisor James Cleary writes in "The Lancet" that worldwide access to medical opioids for pain is still lacking.
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GHI supports SVM researcher to help find Zika virus in Colombia, look for ways to stop it
GHI helped fund the doctoral student whose work was key to finding the Zika virus in Columbia.
