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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…
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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…