Visiting Scholar Awards

Global health and international collaboration have never been more important, and the COVID-19 pandemic has showed us the power of technology to connect people across the world. To recognize our changing circumstances, GHI will support Virtual Visiting Scholar Awards for 2021. The Virtual Visiting Scholar Awards will support virtual visits to the UW-Madison campus by individuals who substantially enhance global activities on campus in collaboration with a sponsoring faculty member or faculty team. GHI will award grants in amounts of up to $2,500, which may be used for honoraria.

Applications for Virtual Visiting Scholar Awards are due January 25, 2021.

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Questions? Call 608-265-9299 or email globalhealth@ghi.wisc.edu.

2021 Awards

Combatting antimicrobial resistance: A complex systems approach

Principal Investigator: Jessica Hite, Ph.D., Department of Pathobiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, with Dorte Dopfer, Food Animal Production; Jingyi Huang, Soil Sciences; Johanna Elfenbein, Pathobiological Sciences at UW-Madison; and Eric Fevre, University of Liverpool, and Andrew deRoos, Santa Fe Institute and University of Amsterdam

2020 Awards

Influence of indigenous bacteria on reproduction in the dengue vector Aedes aegypti

Principal Investigator: Kerri Coon, Ph.D., Department of Entomology, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences; visiting scholar, Sebastian Diaz Zuleta, doctoral candidate, University of Antioquia, Colombia

UW-GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute One Health Collaboration

Principal Investigator, Ann Evenson, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine and Public Health; Visiting scholars: C. Rohit Kumar, head of National Veterinary Services, G.V. Ramana Rao, director of GVK’s Emergency Medicine Learning Center and Research

Population Health Research Dissemination

Principal Investigator: Laurel Legenza, PharmD, M.S., School of Pharmacy; Visiting scholar: Renier Coetzee, PharmD, University of Western Cape, South Africa

NOVEL HIV DRUG RESISTANCE TECHNOLOGIES FOR USE IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME HIGH BURDEN SETTINGS

Principal Investigator: David O’Connor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health

DEVELOPING AN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP WITH JIMMA UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator: Dawd Siraj, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine and Public Health

Previous Grants

School Milk Achievement Project: A study to analyze aflatoxin exposure in Ethiopia

Mestawet Taye, Ph.D., Department of Animal Sciences, Hawassa University, Ethiopia

Principal UW host: Heidi Busse, postdoctoral research fellow

Building Surgical Training Partnership

Dr. James Munthali and Dr. Emmanuel Makasa, University of Zambia

Principal UW host: Girma Tefera, School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Surgery

Visiting Scholar MSc Sergio Graf University of Guadalajara Collaboration

Sergio Graf, University of Guadalajara

Principal UW host: Alberto Vargas, Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program

Simulation Partnership with Ethiopia AAU

Tewodros Haile, M.D., Addis Ababa University (AAU) School of Medicine

Principal UW host: Krystle Campbell, Simulation Center Manager at the School of Medicine and Public Health

The effect of doctor-patient service agreements on the level of quality and continuity of care in Chinese community health service centers

Dr. Jing Ding, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Principal UW host: Kenneth Kushner, professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

A TRANSNATIONAL APPROACH TO HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP: CONSOLIDATING COLLABORATIONS FOR THE UNESCO CHAIR ON GENDER, WELL-BEING AND A CULTURE OF PEACE

Teresa Langle de Paz, Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) – Foundation

Principal UW host: Araceli Alonso, associate faculty, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies/School of Medicine and Public Health

CONNECTING LANDSCAPES: WISCONSIN AND JALISCO EXCHANGE FOR CAMPUS-COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PROJECTS

Adriana Olivares, University of Guadalajara

Principal UW host: Mary Beth Collins, director of the Centers for Research and Public Affairs, School of Human Ecology

PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS ON LONG DISTANCE DISPERSAL OF PLANT PATHOGENIC FUNGI

Martina Iapichino, Ph.D. student, INPHYNI (Institut de Physique de Nice), Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France

Principal UW host: Anne Pringle, associate professor of botany and bacteriology

THE ROLE OF NATURAL SELECTION IN HUMAN DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY

Wen-Ya Ko, assistant professor, Department of Life Sciences and Institute of Genome Sciences, Yang-Ming University

Principal UW host: Carol Lee, professor and director, Center for Rapid Evolution

CAPACITY BUILDING FOR VIROLOGY AND CONSERVATION IN RWANDA

Julius Nziza, country coordinator, Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project and USAID’s PREDICT program, Rwanda

Principal UW host: Thomas Friedrich, associate professor of pathobiological sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine

ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CARDIAC SURGERY PROGRAM

Mahelet Tadesse Ibssa, consultant, Addis Ababa University (AAU) Department of Anesthesiology

Principal UW host: Martha Wynn, associate professor anesthesiology, School of Medicine and Public Health

EVALUATING SYSTEMIC BARRIERS TO ACCESS OF ESSENTIAL OPIOID MEDICATIONS FOR PROVIDING PAIN RELIEF IN RWANDA

Jean-Claude Tayari Kanyamanza, BPharm, MPH, Ph.D. Candidate, Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), Republic of Rwanda

UW Hosts: James F. Cleary, MD, Director, Pain & Policy Studies Group, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Carbone Cancer Center; Paul Hutson, PharmD, M.S., Professor (CHS), Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, UW-Madison School of Pharmacy