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Future of Global Food Solutions
Join the UW-MBA Net Impact chapter for an afternoon with food industry experts where we discuss how business, consumer desire, and innovation drive the evolving global food system. Registration.
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Global health students among 2017 Wisconsin Without Borders award winners
Global health students among 2017 Wisconsin Without Borders award winners
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9th Annual Bioethics Symposium: “Queering Bioethics: Ethical Issues in LGBTQ Health Care”
This year’s symposium is titled: “Queering Bioethics: Ethical Issues in LGBTQ Health Care.” The planning committee, led by Dr. Robert Streiffer, has attracted some of the best people in the country to provide discussion on the historic and current ethical issues around LGBTQ health care including: surrogacy and assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), health care for…
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11th Annual Nelson Institute Earth Day Conference
Post-apocalyptic films and books are more popular than ever, with recent titles like The Hunger Games, The Passage, Snowpiercer and The Walking Dead joining a rapidly growing list. What drives our fascination with the end of the world? Can this pop-culture phenomenon help us understand today’s environmental challenges and stimulate ideas to build a just,…
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PHS Monday Seminar: John Mullahy, PhD, “Understanding Patients’ Time in Contact with Healthcare Providers”
This seminar will consider some conceptual and empirical aspects of the time patients spend in contact with healthcare providers. Under different circumstances, non-contact with providers may or may not be desirable. For instance, some measures of healthcare quality are based on understanding how much patient time is dedicated to the receipt of healthcare, how much…