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World of Water: Opportunities & Engineering Challenges in the 21st Century
UW faculty and professional practitioners discuss water issues that affect your future in the first in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Discovery Series.
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AAP News & Journals: Action Needed on ‘Climate Crisis’ to Protect Children’s Health
GHI Director Jonathan Patz tells pediatricians that action is needed on climate crisis to protect children’s health.
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Navigating Aging, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS
Sanyu Mojola, an associate professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan, discusses the intersection of aging, sexuality and HIV/AIDS. She studies how societies produce health and illness and is especially interested in understanding social processes, mechanisms and patterns of social organization that lead to health inequities on many fronts. Much of Mojola’s work is focused…
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UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
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Global Hot Spots: How Might Solving the Global Climate Crisis be the Health Cure of the Century?
The global climate crisis poses large risks to public health through many exposure pathways — from heat waves and air pollution to malnutrition, infectious diseases, and social dislocation. At the same time, confronting the cause of climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — offers large benefits to…