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UNESCO Chair provides international stage for global work on gender, well-being and peace
UW-Madison has been awarded a UNESCO Chair on Gender, Well-being and a Culture of Peace, a first for the university in any area and a global platform for the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and for the campus-wide 4W Initiative.
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Global Health Institute supports graduate students, visiting scholars and traveling faculty to study human, animal, environmental health
Girls’ health, open spaces, West Nile virus and cardiac care are among the topics University of Wisconsin-Madison investigators will explore with awards announced March 28, 2016, by the Global Health Institute (GHI). The Institute awarded eight Graduate Student Research Awards, one Faculty-Staff Travel Award and three Visiting Scholar Awards in amounts from $2,500 to $8,000.…
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Disparities in Neurosurgical Care Across the United States
Disparities in access to, delivery of, and outcomes following medical care have long been widely reported in the general medical literature. However, only in the more recent past have disparities been a focus of rigorous academic work within medical subspecialties, particularly surgical subspecialties. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee, MD, MPH, presents a susrvey of recent work within…
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Future doctors are learning preventive medicine and how to take care of whole populations of patients.
Future doctors are learning preventive medicine and how to take care of whole populations of patients.
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Global Hot Spots: “An Update from Paris: On the Road to a Clean Energy Society”
Speaker: Jonathan Patz, Director of the Global Health Institute and John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences About the talk: In early December, a record number of heads of state convened in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP)…