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Wisconsin Film Festival: In the Shadow of Ebola
UW-Madison Professor and current director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment, Gregg Mitman has directed a documentary titled In the Shadow of Ebola that will be airing at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 11 and 12. The 26 minute documentary tells the story of Emmanuel Urey, a Liberian student at school in Madison,…
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Sustainability Forum 2015: Rethinking Our Consumption
Maggie Grabow presented “Mindfulness and Sustainable Behaviors” at the 2015 Sustainability Forum
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E-learning and Sustainable Health: Lessons from Zambia
Dr. Craig Wilson, Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sparkman Center for Global Health, gave a lecture as a part of the Global Health Institute Seminar Series. His lecture focused on not only his success in training health care workers, but also his explanation concerning the need to train more health care workers…
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Seminar: Human Leptospirosis in Ecuadorian communities: The role of the leptospiral intermediate cluster
Gabriel Trueba, DVM, Ph.D., director of the Microbiology Institute at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, worked with UW-Madison researchers to complete a Global Health Institute Seed Grant project that looked at the incidence of brucellosis in Ecuador. He is active in food safety and zoonotic disease research as well as wildlife health, with…
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2015 Global Health Symposium: “Advancing Health in an Interconnected World”
Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and former member of Parliament in Canada’s House of Commons, will be keynote speaker for the 2015 Global Health Symposium: “Advancing Health in an Intererconnected World” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The 11th annual global health symposium again brings together students, faculty,…