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Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for global health

Climate change: Challenges and opportunities for global health

Climate change and displacement in the indigenous region of Gunayala, Panama

Carlos Arenas discusses how climate change is displacing indigenous pwoplw in Gunayala, Panama.

The United Nations: An Insider’s View

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 approaching for faculty, staff and students to apply for grants to further global health

Deadlines near for new round of Global Health Institute grants to faculty, staff and students.

Right to Identity: Child Abandonment, Trafficking, Migration and Protection

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/

Writing AIDS: (Re)Conceptualizing the Individual and Social Body in Spanish American Literature

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 …

Social media for social good: Researchers estimate air pollution from online posts

UW-Madison computer science researchers develop a method to use social media posts to estimate air pollution levels.

Searching a Nigerian forest for answers to emerging health challenges

Sagan Friant, a doctoral student in Environment and Resources, discovers eating infected crabs causes lung fluke in in monkeys and people.

Conservation Status of North American Birds in the Face of Future Climate Change

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. …

Sustainable Intensification in Agricultural Systems

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. …