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
-
Livestream: Population Health Spotlight with Jonathan Patz
GHI Director Jonathan Patz presents “Confronting the Global Climate Crisis May be the Best Way to Fight Chronic Diseases” at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. Listen live at http://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/events/population-health-spotlight/. The talk will also be available on-demand.
-
Philadelphia Inquirer: Climate change and chronic disease: twin perils and a golden opportunity to solve both
GHI Director Jonathan Patz outlines how health benefits from reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
-
From Lost Boy to health activist
Jacob Atem will share his journey from a genocide survivor to health activist in his home village. Atem was 6 when his parents were killed, his siblings lost, and his village in southern Sudan was decimated by genocide. He became one of nearly 20,000 “Lost Boys” from South Sudan, orphaned and fleeing war. He fled 1,000…
-
Food Sovereignty symposium and festival
The Food Sovereignty Symposium and Festival will be held March 10-12 on the University of Wisconsin campus and surrounding sites in Madison, Wisconsin. The symposium component of event is focusing on Indigenous and broader topics of food sovereignty that impact how communities and individuals control and manage their food systems, and the festival component is…
-
Call for applications: Wisconsin Without Borders Recognition Awards for Global Engaged Scholarship
Call for applications: Wisconsin Without Borders Recognition Awards for Global Engaged Scholarship.