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PHS Monday Seminar: “Health and Economic Opportunity”
Rourke O’Brien joined the La Follette School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs in January 2016. O’Brien’s research interests include taxation, household finance, and population health. Current projects explore the social determinants of subnational tax structures, household savings and credit behavior, and the interplay between health and intergenerational economic mobility.
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UW-Madison Green Fund Information Session
UW–Madison is launching a $50,000 Green Fund in January 2017 to support student-initiated projects to reduce the environmental footprint and operating costs of campus units such as residence halls, dining facilities, and student unions. Areas of interest include energy, water and solid waste.
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Climate Change and Human Rights: Lessons from the Paris Agreement
Despite the potential for climate change to undermine all human rights, it was not recognized as a human rights issue until recently. The international community linked human rights to climate change in documents for the first time in 2010, and 2016 saw the first binding document: the Paris Agreement of the UN Framework Convention on…
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“Tech will take over,” giving rural Africans access to health care
“Tech will take over,” say YALI scholars who visited UW-Madison and use mobile apps to deliver better health care and information in rural Africa.
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New, more effective strategy for producing flu vaccines
Researchers led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a professor of pathobiological sciences and GHI Advisory member, find a new, more effective strategy for producing flu vaccines.