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War, Tech and Health: How medicine under fire prompted an app to improve care
Join emergency physicians Mohammed Dalwai from South Africa and Janis Tupesis from UW-Madison as they discuss and demonstrate the opportunities for mobile technology to improve medicine, what it takes to found a start-up,and the challenges of building mobile apps to improve emergency care. Faced with few resources as he tended to patients in war zone…
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The UW Climate Change Symposium
The second annual UW Climate Change Symposium will be held March 31st through April 1st, this year with the Global Health Institute being a sponsor. The talks will showcase the diversity of climate-related research at UW-Madison and help grow the network of the climate-change community. The event will feature a combination of student and research based…
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Biology Colloquium: Genomic Analysis of Tuberculosis Outbreaks
Dr. Woei-Fuh Wang from the Biodiversity Research Center Academia Sinica, Taiwan, will discuss his work concerning tuberculosis outbreaks. Coffee and cookies will be available at 3:10 p.m.
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Age-Old Traditions, New Media
Life sciences communication professor Patty Loew, a member of the GHI Advisory, fosters intercultural learning with workshops that help tribal teens tell their stories in a digital world.
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Global Health Symposium 2016–Global Crises: Today’s Response, Tomorrow’s Hope
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) welcomes Dr. Mohammed Dalwai, a Médicins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) veteran, South African emergency physician and tech innovator, as the keynote speaker for the 2016 Global Health Symposium—Global Crises: Today’s Response, Tomorrow’s Hope. The 12th annual symposium convenes at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 30, in the…