Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) presents a free screening of the film “Access to the Danger Zone,” narrated by Daniel Day-Lewis. The 70-minute documentary provides a harrowing look at the challenges of delivering humanitarian aid in armed conflicts in areas of Somalia, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Admission is free. Register to attend. …
Doctors Without Borders is presenting an information session for all interested medical and non-medical professionals. The group recruits health care professionals and water and sanitation, construction, mechanics and electrical experts, lab scientists and technicians, human resources and administrative professionals, logistics professionals and finance professionals.
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Jonathan Simon, director of Boston University’s Center for Global Health & Development discusses the future of global health.
The annual Study Abroad Fair will be open from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17 in Varsity Hall.
Sherry Tanumihardjo, a CALS professor and director of the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health, talks to Grow magazine about orange vegetables and vitamins.
Steve Carpenter, director of the Center for Limnology and a GHI Advisory member, talks with The Cap Times about solving water quality problems.
Sloth research energizes next generation of global health leaders in One Health research with Dr. Kurt Sladky from Veterinary Medicine and GHI Advisory.
Christopher W. Olsen, acting director of the Global Health Institute, will discuss “MERS, Chikungunya and Ebola – Global Health Challenges Requiring an Integrated ‘One Health’ Approach” Sept. 12 at the first Global Hot Spots Lecture for 2014-2015.
UW-Madison alumnus J. Stephen Morrison discusses Ebola in West Africa Sept. 19.