Welcome to this special segment of GHI News, where communications intern Kendall Buehl will share the amazing stories of UW–Madison students collaborating with the Global Health Institute. Over the 2023 summer term, UW–Madison students Brody …
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The Inspiration Behind The Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative: Meet Abdullah Keles
Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative (MMI) Founder Abdullah Keles, MD, saw a problem and wanted to solve it. The problem, illuminated through his work as Mustafa K. Baskaya Lab Manager within the Department of Neurological Surgery in …
Augmenting Microgrid Systems in Colombia: GHI Partners with Rebecca Alcock (ISyE)
Rebecca Alcock, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is constantly working to innovate in the field of global health systems engineering. Alcock received a …
Working with Communities to Ensure Food Sovereignty: Meet Marcia Paola Chapeton Castro
Marcia Paola Chapeton Castro, a nutritionist, dietician and Ph.D. student in Public Health at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) – Campus Bogotá, Interfaculty Program, is on her way to a thesis focused on community collaboration …
GHI-One Health Center-West Africa in Sierra Leone to expand One Health collaboration efforts locally and globally
GHI is pleased to share the opening of the GHI-One Health Center Sierra Leone, led by Alhaji N’jai with support from Project 1808, Abbott Pandemic Defense Coalition, University of Sierra Leone, and the Ministry of Health.
From The Guardian: Newly identified Langya virus tracked after China reports dozens of cases
Dozens in China have contracted the virus that can cause fever, fatigue, cough, loss of appetite and muscle aches. It is believed to have spread from animals to humans.
Osorio to lead UW’s Global Health Institute
Wisconsin alumnus Jorge Osorio, DVM, Ph.D., an international expert in epidemiology, virology and vaccines, has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI). A professor of pathobiological sciences in the School …
UniverCity Year seeks new local government partners
UniverCity Year is seeking new local government partners to work toward practical solutions to locally-identified challenges during the 2022-2025 academic years. The deadline to apply is Monday, Aug. 1, 2022 by noon CDT.
At U.N. Climate Conference, UW observers look to civil society to save the planet
UW’s Sumudu Atapattu, Nova Tebbe, Jonathan Patz, Greg Nemet and Dekila Chungyalpa reflect on the U.N. climate change conference, COP26, and what it means for the future of human and planetary health.
Celebrating 10 years of impact with GHI
National Academy of Medicine Urges Congress to Address Climate Change
Calling the climate crisis a “human health emergency,” more than 100 members of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) have sent a petition to Congress asking lawmakers to act immediately to prevent the most dire …
300 interviews: Ajay Sethi’s pandemic pivot
GHI Advisory Committee member and epidemiologist Ajay Sethi has done more than 300 media interviews to explain COVID-19 and its consequences.
A Wisconsin Idea Win-Win
Through the UniverCity Year program, CALS works with local communities to address troublesome issues while pursuing valuable teaching and research opportunities
Researchers from across campus receive 2021 global health grants and awards
With its 2021 grants and awards, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) again funds projects from across campus and across disciplines. From traditional knowledge to land use to cervical cancer, faculty, staff, clinicians …
Trek Bicycle looks to UW Global Health Institute to quantify lives saved and improved climate outcomes from biking
Two colliding crises pose a grave threat to human health: One is the rapid rise of chronic disease worldwide. The other is the global climate crises. In a white paper released today, the Health-Oriented Transportation …
New Major Improves Student Prep for Global Health Field
The past year has shone an intense spotlight on public health efforts all over the world. Their complexity, their interconnectedness, and their importance have never been more apparent as they have been during a global …
Badger Talks video: Vaccine arrival is first step
Watch the video As the first doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are administered to essential workers, James Conway is optimistic that they seem to be “at least the first step in this exit ramp that …
Wisconsin battles rapid rise in COVID cases amid partisan disputes over safety
GHI Advisory Committee member Pat Remington sees a convergence of factors leading to upsurge.
New report shows how climate change is affecting Wisconsin’s health now
“Medical Alert: Climate Change is Harming our Health in Wisconsin,” a new report from UW-Madison Professors Jonathan Patz and Dominique Brossard shows how climate change already affects Wisconsinites and what can be done to protect their health.
First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany
At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops leaf-nosed bats. In a necropsy room near the Baltic Sea, researchers try to determine what killed …