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Global Health Symposium 2016–“Global Crises: Today’s Response, Tomorrow’s Hope”
The Global Health Institute hosts the 12th annual Global Health Symposium on March 30, 2016 in the Health Sciences Learning Center. The annual event is an opportunity for faculty, staff and students and community members from all disciplines to connect with each other and share their work with the global health community. Presentations are welcome…
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Dr. Janis P. Tupesis joining GHI leadership
Dr. Janis P. Tupesis, emergency medicine physician and current chair of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Global Health Oversight Committee for UW Hospitals and Clinics, will be serving as the GHI-GME Liaison.
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Ebola whole virus vaccine shown effective, safe in primates
GHI Advisory member Yoshihiro Kawaoka leads group that shows Ebola whole virus vaccine is effective, safe in primates.
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Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Improving Diagnostics in Animals and Humans
Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine and director of the VMED Graduate program at the College of Veterinary Medicine in St. Paul, Minn., Srinand Sreevatsan will discuss zoonotic tuberculosis and improving diagnostics in animals and humans from noon to 1:00 p.m. March 25. This lecture is hosted by the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the School…
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Global Health Seminar Series: E-learning and sustainable health: Lessons from Zambia
UW-Madison alumnus Dr. Craig Wilson (BS ’74, MD ’82) was named director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sparkman Center for Global Health in 2007. He has helped develop health care worker training programs and research across the world. In Zambia, he has contributed to and facilitated several projects, including training pediatric…