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Disability, Healing and Justice Workshop and Poetry Performance

3 p.m. Workshop, Multicultural Student Center Classroom Participants will write under-told, boundary-pushing, life saving stories from their bodies’ fierce wisdom and resilience, to create the deeply necessary stories we need to share the truths of how we’re keeping on living and the amazing lives we’re making. Space is limited! Secure your spot at msc.wisc.edu.register 7 p.m. Performance & Talk-Back, Multicultural Student Center …

Retrospective Evaluation and Household Recombination: Evidence from the Matlab (Bangladesh) Health and Family Planning Program

Andrew Foster, director of the Brown University Population Studies and Training Center, discusses a 40-year panel data set in Matlab, Bangladesh. He will look at the implications of living arrangement fluidity for evaluating health policy and programs. The event is free and open to all. Brown is an empirical micro economist with interests in areas …

2015 Global Health Institute Research Colloquium

Previously funded faculty, staff and students will present their findings for advancing health for humans, animals and the ecosystem in Wisconsin and across the world. The Colloquium will feature recipients of GHI’s Seed Grants and Graduate Student Research Awards. The event is free and open to all. A light lunch will be provided. Reserve your …

EPA Administrator’s WHO address completes 18-year circle

Listening to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy address the World Health Organization’s executive board, Jonathan Patz, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, could see his work coming full circle. Although he was a guest listening to McCarthy’s Jan. 29 presentation in Geneva, Patz was front and center 18 years ago …