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Navigating Aging, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS
Sanyu Mojola, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, discusses the intersection of aging, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She studies how societies produce health and illness and is especially interested in understanding social processes, mechanisms and patterns of social organization that lead to health inequities on many fronts. Much of Mojola’s work is focused…
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UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
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Global Hot Spots: How Might Solving the Global Climate Crisis be the Health Cure of the Century?
The global climate crisis poses large risks to public health through many exposure pathways — from heat waves and air pollution to malnutrition, infectious diseases, and social dislocation. At the same time, confronting the cause of climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — offers large benefits to…
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Searching for Answers on a Warming Planet: Why We May Need Climate Engineering
Simon Nicholson, Director of the Global Environmental Politics program in the School of International Service and co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, will discuss a range of other climate engineering or “geoengineering” schemes which are gaining increasing visibility and credibility as options for tackling climate change. What, though, is to be made of such…
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WIZM: Study shows monkeys contracted CWD from infected deer meat, shows possibility to humans
CWD could affect humans; get your deer tested, says Keith Poulsen, a GHI Advisory Committee member with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.