The Global Health Institute Faculty and Staff Travel Awards are available for UW-Madison faculty and staff to undertake international travel related to educational and research activities. Several grants of up to $2,500.00 each will be awarded for a duration of one year.
Applications for 2022 Faculty and Staff Travel Awards are due January 24, 2022.
Here is the information you need to apply:
- Faculty and Staff Travel Award Instructions
- GHI-Application-Title-Page-2022
- FAQs for GHI Grants and Awards 2022
Questions? Call 608-265-9299 or email globalhealth@ghi.wisc.edu.
2020 Awards
Hepatitis B vaccination among health care workers in Jimma Hospital: access and barriers to vaccination and post-exposure prophylaxix
Project manager: Nimrod Deiss-Yehiely, medical resident, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health; PI Dawd Siraj, M.D., MPH & TM
Establishing a pediatric neurology teaching curriculum in a global health environment
Principal Investigator: Dalila Lewis, M.D., Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Public Health
Implementation of improved hand hygiene practices in Jimma University Specialized Hospital
Project director: Meredith Kavalier, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health; PI: Daniel Shirley, M.D.
Hepatitis B e Antigen positivity and demographics of a Hepatitis B cohort from tertiary referral laboratory in Ethiopa … Examining access and barriers to vaccination
Lindsay Matthews, medical resident, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health; Co-PIs—Dawd Siraj, M.D., MPH, TM; Hailemichael Mekonen, M.D.
A coupled-systems framework for understanding groundwater quality; health risks; and ecosystem impacts within karst landscapes: building an international research network between Ireland and Wisconsin
Principal Investigator: James LaGro , Ph.D., M.S., MLA, Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Letters & Science
Training breast radiologists, surgeons and oncologists in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Principal Investigator: Ryan Woods, M.D., MPH, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine and Public Health
2019 Awards
EFFECTIVE REHABILITATION OF A DISTRESSED SPECIES: GREY CROWNED CRANES IN RWANDA
Principal Investigator: Barry Hartup, Department of Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine
AMERICAN COLLEGE OF SURGEONS AND THE COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EAST, CENTRAL, AND SOUTHERN AFRICA SURGICAL TRAINING HUB COLLABORATIVE
Principal Investigator: Angela Ingraham, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine
CAPE TOWN POST-DROUGHT: HEALTH OUTCOMES, ADAPTIVE BEHAVIORS AND A QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INTERVENTION FOR DIARRHEAL DISEASE
Principal Investigator: Laurel Legenza, Sonderegger Research Center, School of Pharmacy
IMPROVING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CLINICAL GUIDELINES FOR CANCER PAIN MANAGEMENT AND PALLIATIVE CARE IN NEPAL
Principal Investigator: Martha Maurer, Sonderegger Research Center, School of Pharmacy
INTERNAL MEDICINE RESIDENT GLOBAL HEALTH PATHWAY
Principal Investigator: Daniel Shirley, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health
ADDRESSING MERCURY, LEAD AND ARSENIC MINE-SCARRED LAND IN HUANCAVELICA, PERU
Principal Investigator: Geoffrey Siemering, Department of Soil Science, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
GLOBAL HEALTH INTERNATIONAL ROTATION TO JIMMA, ETHIOPIA
Principal Investigator: Dawd Siraj, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health
MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE IN COLOMBIA: HOW INSECT HEALTH IS TIED TO HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM HEALTH
Principal Investigator: Heather Swan, Department of English, College of Letters & Science
GLOBAL SURGERY PROGRAM EVALUATION IN ETHIOPIA
Principal Investigator: Molly Vaux, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health
Previous Grants
Travel Grant to support a project assessing mycotoxin levels in maize in the highlands of Guatemala
Claudia Calderon, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, Department of Horticulture
Integrating rehabilitative services within an educational setting for children with significant development disabilities in Peru
Karen Patterson, Doctor of Physical Therapy Program, School of Medicine and Public Health
SUPPORTING NUTRITION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL KENYA
Bret Shaw, Department of Life Sciences Communication
DISTRIBUTION OF FOSSIL FUEL SUBSIDY REFORM IN INDONESIA
Corbett Grainger, Department of Agriculture and Applied Economics, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences; Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
MIGRATION AND HEALTH IN CHINA
Leonelo Bautista, M.D., MPH, DrPH
ASSESSING RURAL FERMENTATION SYSTEMS IN INDIA
James Steele, Ph.D.
ESTABLISHING FREE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER IN THE GAMBIA
Adrienne White, MSN
ESTABLISHING A NEUROLOGY CLINICAL AND TEACHING ROTATION IN ETHIOPIA
Douglas Dulli, professor, Department of Neurology, School of Medicine and Public Health
IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE OF LOAN RECIPIENTS IN HAITI VIA LOCAL TRAINING
Thomas L. Eggert, senior lecturer, UW School of Business, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
PROVIDING OCULOPLASTIC SURGERY AND LOCAL CAPACITY-BUILDING IN MEXICO
Mark Lucarelli, M.D., FACS, professor, Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Services Director, Oculofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Service UW School of Medicine and Public Health
COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTHCARE APPROACHES TO PREVENTING WATERBORNE DISEASE OUTBREAKS IN SIERRA LEONE
Amit J. Nimunkar, Ph.D., faculty associate, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
PROVIDING FREE HEALTH CARE TO RESIDENTS OF SOUTHERN BELIZE
Mark Petrovani, M.D., clinical assistant professor, Department of Family Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health
ESTABLISHING TRAINING PROGRAM IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE IN ZAMBIA
James Svenson, M.D., associate professor, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health