The 11th annual Global Health Symposium at the University of Wisconsin-Madison not only brings colleagues together from across disciplines, it provides an intergenerational forum for undergraduates, graduate students and faculty and staff to share ideas. That’s important, says Eric Obscherning, co-founder of the student-led Global Health Coalition. Faculty and staff bring experience in the nuances …
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The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s MOOC program, short for Massive Open Online Courses, is enrolling students for the “Changing Weather and Climate in the Great Lakes Region” course until March 30. This 4-week course will feature a new season each week through short lectures and activities covering Great Lakes weather, observed changes in the climate and societal …
The Global Health Institute hosts the 12th annual Global Health Symposium on March 30, 2016 in the Health Sciences Learning Center. The annual event is an opportunity for faculty, staff and students and community members from all disciplines to connect with each other and share their work with the global health community. Presentations are welcome …
Dr. Janis P. Tupesis, emergency medicine physician and current chair of the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Global Health Oversight Committee for UW Hospitals and Clinics, will be serving as the GHI-GME Liaison.
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Professor of Veterinary Population Medicine and director of the VMED Graduate program at the College of Veterinary Medicine in St. Paul, Minn., Srinand Sreevatsan will discuss zoonotic tuberculosis and improving diagnostics in animals and humans from noon to 1:00 p.m. March 25. This lecture is hosted by the Department of Pathobiological Sciences in the School …
UW-Madison alumnus Dr. Craig Wilson (BS ’74, MD ’82) was named director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sparkman Center for Global Health in 2007. He has helped develop health care worker training programs and research across the world. In Zambia, he has contributed to and facilitated several projects, including training pediatric …
A leading expert on medical humanitarianism and author of “Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders” (University of California Press, 2013), Peter Redfield will discuss recent efforts to respond to conditions of disaster and endemic poverty with innovative objects and small-scale designs. Partly decoupled from both states and standard infrastructure, these innovations …