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Third Thursday Global Health Seminar Series: Jim Cleary–Dying with dignity in Rwanda
GHI Special Advisor James Cleary, director of the the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Pain and Policy Studies Group, discusses his GHI Seed Grant work to collaborate with the Rwandan government to expand access to opioid medicines for pain. Cleary wrote about increasing worldwide access to medical opioids in the February 3 Lancet.
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Ethiopia graduates first family medicine doctors through residency program developed in partnership with the University of Wisconsin
Seven Ethiopian doctors became the first graduates from the family medicine residency program at Addis Ababa University’s College of Health Sciences.
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Tradition of serving others keeps drawing UW-Madison alumni into Peace Corps
UW-Madison ranks second in the Peace Corps college ranking of college recruits.
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Syrian Refugee Crisis Talk
Ellen Small Billard is coming to the University of Wisconsin-Madison! She is a social worker, humanitarian, and advocate with a passion for social justice and a love for the Middle East. She co-founded Road to Mafraq, a non-profit organization, which aims to increase access to education and healthcare for children affected by conflict in the…
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Madison Civics Club: Rebecca Blank
More information about the Blank event. Approximate schedule: 9:00 AM Registration table opens. 10:00 AM Dining room doors open; announcements projected on-screen. If you expect to sit with others in your party, be sure to arrive early. Seats cannot be “saved” after 10:45. 11:00 AM Youth Grant awards, public affairs speaker Lori DiPrete Brown 11:20 AM Lunch Cole slaw BBQ braised…