Grants
NOTE: As of August 2022, GHI has suspended its grants program to focus on establishing One Health Centers in the Americas, Asia and Africa and will only be offering a Henry Anderson III Graduate Award.
Competitive. Targeted. Making an Impact. With its grants and awards program, the University of Wisconsin Global Health Institute supports innovative global health work in Wisconsin and across the world. From monitoring mercury contamination in fish to improving care for diabetics. Combating antimicrobial resistance to providing health care to rural families. Improving nutrition to giving emergency physicians information they need when they need it.
157 grants to faculty, staff and students have jump-started new research, brought international collaborators to campus and opened opportunities for students. Together, they are improving health and well-being for all–people, animals and the planet.
10 Researchers Share Impact of GHI Grants
See individual grant pages (linked below) for specific instructions.
For more information, contact globalhealth@ghi.wisc.edu.
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Impact
Local to global connection: Dairy project expands Wisconsin Idea to Ethiopia
Wisconsin’s reputation as a dairy capital is giving postdoctoral research fellow Heidi Busse the chance to develop unique partnerships in countries, such as Ethiopia, where milk is not as available.
Thinking ahead: GHI Advisory Committee member Paul Block works to develop proactive disaster early warning system
Building off of a 2016 GHI Seed Grant, Block is using a new UW2020 grant to develop an online flood and health risk management system in an attempt to give relief organizations months — not hours or days — to prepare for disasters.
Global Health Tuesday: Polluted Fish and Cycles of Poverty
2016 GHI Seed Grant Recipient Peter McIntyre discusses his project on tracing the global scope of mercury contamination of inland subsistence fisheries, ecological patterns, health threats and source tracking. This project addresses an unrecognized facet of the cycle of poverty: contamination of food fish with neurotoxins. The presentation was delivered at UW-Madison in Nov. 2018.
Global Health Tuesday: Water, Women and Fisheries
2016 Seed Grant recipient Jessica Corman kicked of the 2017-18 GH Tuesday series, discussing her investigation of the impact of nutrient pollution and invasive species in Lake Victoria, with the aim of identifying local solutions to mitigate water quality challenges. The presentation was delivered at UW-Madison in Sept. 2017.
Global Health Tuesday: Developing a Global Flood Prediction Model
Donghoon Lee, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, discusses his research with Paul Block, 2016 GHI Seed Grant recipient. This grant was provided to facilitate investigation into flood prediction to support advanced disaster preparedness and predict public health risks. The presentation was delivered at UW-Madison in Nov. 2017.