Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for global health
Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for global health
Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for global health
Carlos Arenas discusses how climate change is displacing indigenous pwoplw in Gunayala, Panama.
Join Suhail Khan as he sheds light on these and other questions you bring. As a young professional, Mr. Khan will share his journey, address issues you’ve been curious about, and discuss the skills you’ll need in order to have the competitive edge in a search for an internship or job at the UN.
Deadlines near for new round of Global Health Institute grants to faculty, staff and students.
Dr. Jean Geran, Co-Director for Human Rights, Child Protection and Global Policy of the Social Transformations to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex (STREETS) Initiative, will discuss a child’s right to identity during a free public lecture. For more information, please visit: http://international.wisc.edu/blog/index.php/2014/11/04/2014-soffa-lecture/ and http://sohe.wisc.edu/4w/
This talk will discuss the ways in which AIDS has pervaded the personal and social imaginings of the body by highlighting textual representations found in Spanish American literature where AIDS has a significant role. I will reference my recent scholarship on these literary realms and then will talk briefly about my current research into visual …
UW-Madison computer science researchers develop a method to use social media posts to estimate air pollution levels.
Sagan Friant, a doctoral student in Environment and Resources, discovers eating infected crabs causes lung fluke in in monkeys and people.
National Audubon Society scientists recently completed a comprehensive analysis modeling the winter and summer ranges of 588 North American bird species in response to future climate change. Using extensive citizen science data and detailed climate layers, these models characterize the relationship between the distribution of each species and climate through the end of the century. …
Can we sustainably intensify food production to meet the needs of a growing population with changing consumption patterns? In this lecture, author and scholar Jules Pretty, University of Essex, will analyze recent evidence of the impacts of sustainable intensification in both developing and industrialized countries, and demonstrate how both yield and natural capital dividends can occur. …