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Laws, Sausages, and the Autism Diagnosis: Measuring Disability for Public Health Surveillance
Autism spectrum disorder is an important public health concern in the United States. Individuals with ASD often have lifelong impairments and are at increased risk for a variety of other disabilities and health conditions. ASD is diagnosed through the observation of behavioral symptoms indicating impairments in social communication and the presence of repetitive behaviors or…
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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.