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2016 Global Health Symposium: War leads to life lessons, apps to improve health care

Doctors Without Borders veteran and app developer is keynote speaker for 2016 Global Health Symposium.

Pathology & Laboratory Medicine’s Grand Rounds

Environmental Health Through the Lifespan: Making the Connection 2016

Learn more about the event here.

Rising to the Challenge of the Climate Crisis: Economics, Human Rights, and Public Health

For more information about this event, visit 350 Madison’s website.

Writing Wisconsin’s Climate

While everyone in Wisconsin has a story about an epic blizzard or a harrowing thunderstorm, it can be challenging to tell stories about changes to our climate over time. We come to understand the world around us through stories. This is especially true for phenomena we may not think about every day that still has …

Wisc: UW South Madison Partnership puts down roots after a successful first year

The UW South Madison Partnership celebrates a successful year with numerous accomplishments and future goals.

Wisc: 14th Dalai Lama to visit Madison for live-streamed event on global well-being

The 14th Dalai Lama will be a part of a panel of experts on campus that will discuss global well-being and mindfulness.

Third Thursday Global Health Seminar Series: Jim Cleary–Dying with dignity in Rwanda

GHI Special Advisor James Cleary, director of the the UW Carbone Cancer Center’s Pain and Policy Studies Group, discusses his GHI Seed Grant work to collaborate with the Rwandan government to expand access to opioid medicines for pain. Cleary wrote about increasing worldwide access to medical opioids in the February 3 Lancet.

Ethiopia graduates first family medicine doctors through residency program developed in partnership with the University of Wisconsin

Seven Ethiopian doctors became the first graduates from the family medicine residency program at Addis Ababa University’s College of Health Sciences.

Tradition of serving others keeps drawing UW-Madison alumni into Peace Corps

UW-Madison ranks second in the Peace Corps college ranking of college recruits.