Activist, author and occupational therapist Frank Kronenberg from South Africa will open his UW-Madison talk by engaging the audience around the core question of “How are we doing together—as humanity and as health professionals.” He asks: “If caring deeply about humanity is to be the shared heartbeat of all health professionals, can we then afford …
GHI programs associate Sweta Shrestha among those honored for engagement beyond campus borders for her work in Nepal.
Tests show Midwestern canine influenza outbreak is result of new strain.
The Department of Population Health Sciences and the UW Population Health Institute are hosting Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. At this Population Health Seminar she will be speaking on “The Child Equity Agenda: The Role of Visual Data and Cross-Sector Collaborations to Reduce Early Life Adversity.” If you …
UW-Madison Professor and current director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment, Gregg Mitman has directed a documentary titled In the Shadow of Ebola that will be airing at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 11 and 12. The 26 minute documentary tells the story of Emmanuel Urey, a Liberian student at school in Madison, …
Maggie Grabow presented “Mindfulness and Sustainable Behaviors” at the 2015 Sustainability Forum
Dr. Craig Wilson, Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sparkman Center for Global Health, gave a lecture as a part of the Global Health Institute Seminar Series. His lecture focused on not only his success in training health care workers, but also his explanation concerning the need to train more health care workers …
Gabriel Trueba, DVM, Ph.D., director of the Microbiology Institute at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, worked with UW-Madison researchers to complete a Global Health Institute Seed Grant project that looked at the incidence of brucellosis in Ecuador. He is active in food safety and zoonotic disease research as well as wildlife health, with …
Dr. Keith Martin, executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health and former member of Parliament in Canada’s House of Commons, will be keynote speaker for the 2015 Global Health Symposium: “Advancing Health in an Intererconnected World” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The 11th annual global health symposium again brings together students, faculty, …
Professor Gregg Mitman shows the human side of the Liberian Ebola epidemic in his new film “In the Shadow of Ebola.”