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."
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 …
CBS news covers UW research that shows how high income inequality hurts health.
For soybean growers, hidden cost of climate change tops $11 billion
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.