University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Women and Wellbeing

GHI leaders help introduce women/wellness initiative to philanthropists

GHI’s Lori DiPrete Brown and Sweta Shrestha help present a new women and well-being initiative to philanthropists.

GHI Impact Report 2013-2014

The Global Health Institute builds bridges between researchers, health care professionals, staff, students, fellows and communities to tackle the complex, interlinked causes of disease. Download the PDF. 2013-2014 UW-Madison Global Health Impact Report.

Bringing the whole university to Ethiopia

The story of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s expanding web of global health initiatives in Ethiopia began with one man’s homecoming. Dr. Girma Tefera, a professor in the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine and Public Health, spent 14 years without visiting his family in the southern Ethiopian highlands, studying medicine in Italy and …

Graduate Students Take on Global Health Challenges

Graduate Students Take on Global Health Challenges

Symposium links animal, human health

The Global Health Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison reflects a decade of interdisciplinary global health work on campus, says Dr. Christopher Olsen, this year’s keynote speaker. This year’s symposium, “One Health: Making the Connections,” begins at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in the Health Sciences Learning Center. More than 50 students and faculty and …

DiPrete Brown revisits personal journey through novel

Check out this article about our very own, Lori Diprete Brown, and the inspiration for her latest novel.

Lori DiPrete Brown reflects on global health at TedxUWMadison

Listen to Lori DiPrete Brown’s TedxUWMadison talk: “Start Small, Change the World”  Text of talk available in a blog post from her personal blog. Lori DiPrete Brown, a global public health practitioner with experience in over 13 countries, joined the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) in 2003. She has played a leadership …

Health care leaders = hope for the future

Check out this article on a group of global health fellows who recently visited campus.

GHI Associate Director, Lori DiPrete Brown, awarded 2012 Dean’s Teaching Award

Congratulations, Lori!