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How Much Higher Are COVID-19 Rates Among Unvaccinated Wisconsinites?
GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi discusses COVID-19 transmission among unvaccinated residents.
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WHO renames COVID-19 variants with Greek letter names to avoid confusion, stigma
GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi weighs in on changing Covid variant names to avoid stigma.
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Study blames climate change for 37% of global heat deaths
GHI Director Jonathan Patz shares insight on new research linking climate change to global heat deaths.
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Special summer Global Health Tuesdays explore sustainable development and global oncology
July 27: Syed Nabeel Zafar, M.D., from the School of Medicine and Public Health, will explore background challenges related to global oncology, the current status of care, initiatives by national and international organizations and the Global Oncology program at UW-Madison.
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GHI Director Jonathan Patz receives WARF Named Professorship
Professor and Global Health Institute Director Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, was well along in his research linking climate change to health when he arrived at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004—then everything took off. “My research and science accelerated when I hit UW-Madison,” says Patz, who has faculty appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental…