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Small Dreams and Magic Bullets: From Infrastructure to Humanitarian Design
A leading expert on medical humanitarianism and author of “Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders” (University of California Press, 2013), Peter Redfield will discuss recent efforts to respond to conditions of disaster and endemic poverty with innovative objects and small-scale designs. Partly decoupled from both states and standard infrastructure, these innovations…
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Six student projects awarded Wisconsin Idea Fellowships for 2015-2016
Global health students/projects among Wisconsin Idea Fellowship winners for 2015-16.
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For UW-Madison scientists, Northern Wisconsin serves as a lab and a classroom
For UW-Madison scientists, Northern Wisconsin serves as lab to measure greenhouse gases, and a classroom for local students.
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Africa at Noon: Human Dimensions of Zoonotic Disease Transmission in Western Uganda
Emerging infections don’t just happen. Some phenomena come together to trigger emergence and transmission. Sarah Paige, a post-doctoral research associate in the lab of Dr. Tony Goldberg in the School of Veterinary Medicine, looks at the human factor in the spread of disease from animals to humans. Paige directs social science field operations for the…
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Global Health Seminar Series: Education, Ebola and Empowering Girls in The Gambia
When 20 Gambian girls learned about teaching female reproductive health, they planned to share their knowledge in their communities as peer health educators. Faced with an Ebola outbreak, they realized they were prepared, proactive and ready to serve—and used their education and cultural knowledge to fight the disease. Mam-Yassin Sarr will discuss the importance of…