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Population Health Seminar: The Child Equity Agenda
The Department of Population Health Sciences and the UW Population Health Institute are hosting Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine. At this Population Health Seminar she will be speaking on “The Child Equity Agenda: The Role of Visual Data and Cross-Sector Collaborations to Reduce Early Life Adversity.” If you…
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Wisconsin Film Festival: In the Shadow of Ebola
UW-Madison Professor and current director of the Nelson Institute’s Center for Culture, History and Environment, Gregg Mitman has directed a documentary titled In the Shadow of Ebola that will be airing at the Wisconsin Film Festival on April 11 and 12. The 26 minute documentary tells the story of Emmanuel Urey, a Liberian student at school in Madison,…
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Sustainability Forum 2015: Rethinking Our Consumption
Maggie Grabow presented “Mindfulness and Sustainable Behaviors” at the 2015 Sustainability Forum
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E-learning and Sustainable Health: Lessons from Zambia
Dr. Craig Wilson, Director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Sparkman Center for Global Health, gave a lecture as a part of the Global Health Institute Seminar Series. His lecture focused on not only his success in training health care workers, but also his explanation concerning the need to train more health care workers…
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Seminar: Human Leptospirosis in Ecuadorian communities: The role of the leptospiral intermediate cluster
Gabriel Trueba, DVM, Ph.D., director of the Microbiology Institute at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, worked with UW-Madison researchers to complete a Global Health Institute Seed Grant project that looked at the incidence of brucellosis in Ecuador. He is active in food safety and zoonotic disease research as well as wildlife health, with…