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Global Health Challenges – Sri Lankan Experience:Dr. Vinya S. Ariyaratne
Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne is the General Secretary of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement which is Sri Lanka’s largest non-governmental grass roots development organization. Dr.Ariyaratne also serves at the Director General of the newly established Sarvodaya Institute of Higher Learning (SIHL) and as a board member of Sarvodaya Development Finance (SDF), the economic empowerment arm of the…
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Global health through the lens of a social scientist at UW
When the deadly Ebola epidemic broke out in West Africa in 2014, the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency. Groups of global health experts marched to the frontline, a University of Wisconsin scientist was one of them.
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PHS Monday Seminar:The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice
In this presentation, Dr. Hutson will discuss his recently published book, The Urban Struggle for Economic, Environmental, and Social Justice: Deepening Their Roots (Routledge, 2016), where he documents residents’ resistance to gentrification in four cities—Boston, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. Malo André Hutson is an academic scholar and practitioner in the areas…
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Fish, floods and diabetes under scrutiny with four new GHI Seed Grants
Fish, floods and diabetes under scrutiny with four new GHI Seed Grants.
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4W Summit
2016 Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being welcomes slate of international women’s advocates Streams of the public events can be found here. Former University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Donna Shalala and international Zimbabwe humanitarian Tererai Trent headline a public slate of speakers for the 2016 Summit on Women, Gender and Well-being. Shalala, president of the Clinton Foundation…