Disparities in access to, delivery of, and outcomes following medical care have long been widely reported in the general medical literature. However, only in the more recent past have disparities been a focus of rigorous academic work within medical subspecialties, particularly surgical subspecialties. Debraj “Raj” Mukherjee, MD, MPH, presents a susrvey of recent work within …
Future doctors are learning preventive medicine and how to take care of whole populations of patients.
Speaker: Jonathan Patz, Director of the Global Health Institute and John P. Holton Chair in Health and the Environment, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of Population Health Sciences About the talk: In early December, a record number of heads of state convened in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP) …
GHI Advisory member Cynthie Anderson, medical director of the Arboretum Ob-Gyn clinic and UW–Madison assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology, discusses her Seed Grant work to collaborate with in-country colleagues to expand access to long-term, reversible contraception in Ethiopia. UW OB/Gyn has spearheaded a postpartum Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) program in Dane County, bringing …
Anyone can follow the pregnancy of a monkey infected with Zika virus in real time, thanks to an experiment in data sharing unusual for biology.
UW-Madison researchers release results from a Zika virus study in monkeys in real time.
Health disparities are differences in the burden of disease and other health conditions that exist among specific population groups in the United States. Poor, unemployed, and uneducated population groups experience more illness or worse outcomes than the rest of the population. These groups often lack doctors, health insurance, and medical access, and have a disparate burden …
On March 4, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs will host a half-day International Women’s Day Global Health Symposium at the Fairmont hotel in Chicago. This symposium will explore how women are affecting change in the health field – locally and globally – and examine the economic, political, geographic, and cultural factors involved in addressing …