News
Welcome to the Global Health Institute news page.
If you have news to share with GHI, click here to contact us.
All GHI News
-
Envisioning Climate Change Impacts on the World’s Deadliest Animals
Presented as part of the Climate, People and the Environment Program, presented by the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. Each semester the Climate, People, and the Environment Program hosts a weekly seminar featuring lectures by visiting speakers as well as presentations by CPEP faculty, scientists, and students. In some semesters the CPEP Seminar has a…
-
Carl von Marr Day at the Museum of Wisconsin Art
The Flagellants by artist Carl von Marr (1858–1936) makes an impact on viewers for its size, artistry, and subject matter. Though a bit gruesome, this narrative is undeniably compelling. This year’s Carl von Marr Day welcomes Dr. Caitlin Pepperell, a professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and an infectious diseases physician and biologist who studies disease…
-
Science Student Roundtable Luncheon
-
Saving our planet to save ourselves
What do you believe in? Howard Frumkin, a leading voice on environment and health, believes we must save the world to save ourselves.
-
Planetary Health: Protecting Our World to Protect Ourselves
The field of Planetary Health has emerged in recent years, based on the notion that transgressing planetary limits—a hallmark of the now-defined Anthropocene Epoch that acknowledges human impact on the planet—is incompatible with continued human thriving. Professor Howard Frumkin, M.D., DrPH, an expert on the intersection between public health and the built environment, climate change,…