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First Ever Global Health Study Session/Study Break
The Global Health Institute is hosting a combined study session/study break. You can brush up on your SDGs and NTDs and DALYs, but you can also gossip quietly about Poldark, Kanye, or whatever is trending. The session is intended in part for students in NS/Agron/Ento 203, and at least one member of the 203 teaching…
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Director’s Report December 2016
The UW-Madison Global Health Institute invites you to share its stories from the past year.
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PHS Monday Seminar: “Health and Economic Opportunity”
Rourke O’Brien joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in January 2016. O’Brien’s research interests include taxation, household finance, and population health. Current projects explore the social determinants of subnational tax structures, household savings and credit behavior, and the interplay between health and intergenerational economic mobility.
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UW-Madison Green Fund Information Session
UW–Madison is launching a $50,000 Green Fund in January 2017 to support student-initiated projects to reduce the environmental footprint and operating costs of campus units such as residence halls, dining facilities, and student unions. Areas of interest include energy, water and solid waste.
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Climate Change and Human Rights: Lessons from the Paris Agreement
Despite the potential for climate change to undermine all human rights, it was not recognized as a human rights issue until recently. The international community linked human rights to climate change in documents for the first time in 2010, and 2016 saw the first binding document: the Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on…