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Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute, joins panelists to discuss Health Benefits of Mitigating Climate Change at WHO
GHI is among co-hosts for A Civil Society Event on Action in Climate Change and Health.
EcoHealth, like GHI, calls for addressing climate change to benefit human, animal and ecosystem health.
Nelson Institute scientists predict a sharp rise in annual temperatures in the coming decades, and the Institute with other agencies is helping Wisconsin communities prepare for change.
A Fulbright Scholar grant will take Dr. Jonathan Patz, director of the Global Health Institute (GHI) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, to Ethiopia to work on issues involving livable cities, climate change and health during the spring semester of his 2014-2015 sabbatical. He will spend the fall and winter in Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Alhaji N’jai, founder of the Madison, WI and Sierra Leone based nonprofit organization Project 1808 speaks out about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
Listen to this interview with Dr. Jim Conway on the Larry Meiller Show to learn more about the importance of vaccinations.
Dr. Jim Conway, one of GHI’s Associate Directors, talks about the dangers of vaccination exemptions parents are choosing for their children.
Nature medicine news profiles Dr. Tony Goldberg’s discovery of a previously unknown tick in equatorial Africa. It rode home, unknown to him, in his right nostril.