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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 …

Albanian-born med student creates free health clinic to bridge language gap

Global health at home: Albanian born med student creates a free health clinic in Milwaukee to bridge language gap.

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 …

Chancellor highlights 4W Initiative in budget presentation to regents

Chancellor Blank highlights the 4W Initiative during her budget presentation to the UW regents.

Final MIU report proves value of targeted funding

The Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health is among the success stories for the Madison Initiative for Undergraduates.

Vaccination movement undermined by its own success

Professor Alta Charo talks to Wisconsin Public Radio about how people seem to have forgotten how dangerous measles can be.

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 …

UW Global Infectious Disease Working Group presents two talks on Ebola, virology

The UW Global Infectious Disease Working Group welcomes two national researchers to present their work at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, at the AIDS Vaccine Research Lab, 555 Science Drive. 2:00 p.m. Dr. Jens Kuhn. virology lead at the NIH/NIAID Integrated Research Facility at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., presents “Demystifying “Ebola” …

Miracle of the Moringa

Global Health certificate holders share “Miracle of the Moringa.”

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 …