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Jean-Claude Tayari Kanyamanza, a clinical pharmacist and director of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain for the Rwanda Biomedical Center, Ministry of Health, will discuss the recent improvements in access to opioid pain medicines for palliative care in Rwanda. He will discuss a recent initiative to establish an oral morphine solution production lab and government-sponsored opioid prescription training for physicians from district …

Obiora Chinedu Okafor, a respected academic on international, human rights, and immigration/refugee law, will deliver the 2015 Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture on Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by the UW–Madison Human Rights Program, Division of International Studies, and African Studies Program, this event is free and open to the public. …

Rhodessa Jones is an actor, writer, director and founder of the internationally acclaimed Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. After more than 30 years, the project has become a model for community-based, process-oriented theater for incarcerated women around the world. Jones has worked with women in South African prisons since 2006. The Medea Project’s workshops …

As a part of the Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars, Ajay K. Sethi, Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be speaking on “OutSmart Flu: Smart Phone-based Influenza-like Inness Surveillance at UW-Madison.” If you cannot attend in person, view the live stream online. Visit: http://live.videos.med.wisc.edu/ and click …

Join the Nelson Institute for their Earth Day conference, it will be “a day of learning and discussion as we explore the latest science, perspectives and possibilities presented by our rapidly changing planet – featuring a keynote address by renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson.” For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.nelson.wisc.edu/events/earth-day/