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 …
Global health students/projects among Wisconsin Idea Fellowship winners for 2015-16.
For UW-Madison scientists, Northern Wisconsin serves as lab to measure greenhouse gases, and a classroom for local students.
Emerging infections don’t just happen. Some phenomena come together to trigger emergence and transmission. Sarah Paige, a post-doctoral research associate in the lab of Dr. Tony Goldberg in the School of Veterinary Medicine, looks at the human factor in the spread of disease from animals to humans. Paige directs social science field operations for the …
When 20 Gambian girls learned about teaching female reproductive health, they planned to share their knowledge in their communities as peer health educators. Faced with an Ebola outbreak, they realized they were prepared, proactive and ready to serve—and used their education and cultural knowledge to fight the disease. Mam-Yassin Sarr will discuss the importance of …
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: Frank Mugisha, executive director of Sexual Minorities Uganda presents the 2015 Mildred Fish-Harnack Human Rights and Democracy Lecture on the struggles of sexual minorities in the dangerousy hostile climate of East Africa. Mugisha, one of the few openly gay activists in Uganda, began advocating for LGBTI rights and HIV/AIDS awareness …
Dr. Seth M. Holmes, a cultural and medical anthropologist and physician at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses broadly on social hierarchies and health inequalities. His recent book, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies,” is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants in the United States. Holmes is the Martin Sisters …
Mam-Yassin Sarr founded Starfish International with the goal of providing education for Gambian girls from pre-school through graduate school. She will present: “Negotiating Female Reproductive Health as an Adolescent Girl in The Gambia, West Africa: The unique health and social issues involved” during a Global Health Nursing Seminar. Sarr also presents Education, Ebola and Empowering …
The world is facing significant problems that must be solved to secure a sustainable future, and many of those challenges are, in essence, chemical, says Leiv K. Sydnes, professor of organic chemistry at the University of Bergen (Norway). He will discuss the chemical community’s responsibility to act on behalf of society and the earth. The …