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Undergraduate Global Health Field Course Fair
Interested in learning about how to improve the health of people, all life and the environment without necessarily practicing medicine? Would you like to know what makes people healthy in different communities—and learn from different cultures and experts around the world about the determinants of health? Are you wondering how to complete the field course…
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Iris International Film Series
Please join the UW IRIS for the first annual Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) international film series! As part of this year’s International Education Week programming, IRIS along with its regional centers and the International Division, will be showing a series of international films. Several of the selected films have a UW-Madison connection (faculty, students…
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Global Health Tuesday: Quality Improvement
Lori DiPrete Brown, GHI associate director for Education and Engagement, has spent decades collaborating to bring the principles of quality improvement to underserved communities and organizations to improve health and well-being for all. She advocates for a culture of quality and documentable progress. She is director of the annual GHI Quality Improvement Leadership Institute, and…
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Can Season-Ahead Cyanobacteria Forecasts Improve Lake Mendota Beach Management?
GHI Advisory Committee member Paul J. Block, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, discusses a model to help predict the potential for cyanobacteria biomass and beach closings during the summer season.
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Strength in Connection: GHI Director’s Report October 2017
Strength In Connection, the October 2017 Global Health Institute Director’s Report is now available online. Learn about GHI’s education program and our future leaders. Check in with virus sleuth Tony Goldberg See how GHI grants fuel research across campus Discover how the GHI Quality Improvement Leadership Institute connected with the Dalai Lama Understand how GHI…