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Strength in Community: GHI issues its 2017-2018 annual report
“Across campus and the planet, we work together to tackle health challenges,” GHI Director Jonathan Patz writes in the report’s introduction. “Together, we are working toward a more just, sustainable, and healthy world.”
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UW’s health science community hosting series of talks dedicated to improving conversation around equity, diversity
Co-sponsored by the School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy, School of Medicine and Public Health, and School of Veterinary Medicine, the Lunch and Learn Series is free and open to all health science faculty, staff and students.
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Vaccine opt-outs dropped — barely — when California added more hurdles
New research out of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Applied Population Laboratory reveals that the law reduced the proportion of unvaccinated children entering kindergarten in California — but that reduction was modest. Following the passage of AB-2109, the exemption rate dropped from its peak of 3.3 percent of kindergarteners to 2.7 percent in each of the following two…
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Pediatrics Grand Rounds looks at Thriving Children in the Era of the Sustainable Development Goals
September 20: University of Wisconsin-Madison alumna Janna Patterson brings a wealth of global health experience to her talk on how Sustainable Development Goals will affect children’s health.
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Explore nearly 200 events statewide at the Wisconsin Science Festival
Now in its eighth year, the science festival continues to grow. Nearly 100 unique venues are hosting activities statewide, with half the counties in Wisconsin represented.