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Through the UniverCity Year program, CALS works with local communities to address troublesome issues while pursuing valuable teaching and research opportunities
Through the UniverCity Year program, CALS works with local communities to address troublesome issues while pursuing valuable teaching and research opportunities
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 and students will use the awards to look at the complex determinants of health and well-being. The awards go to …
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 (HOT) team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) shows that walking and cycling instead of driving can …
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 pandemic. It’s timely, then, that UW–Madison is launching a new global health major. It’s an expansion of the existing global …
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 we’re all looking for.” Conway is an expert on international immunization programs and global health and an associate director at …
GHI Advisory Committee member Pat Remington sees a convergence of factors leading to upsurge.
“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.
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 a donkey, a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo and a capybara at a German zoo — all of them suffering from severe brain …
GHI Associate Director James Conway joins team investigating "COVID-toes."
SMPH Dean Robert Golden joins with Medical School of Wisconsin dean to chart a road map forward to minimize the pandemic.