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Global Health Tuesday: Cities, Climate Change, & Health
EVENT DATE: May 20, 2025, 9-10am (CST), featuring moderator Linda Vakunta, Deputy Mayor, City of Madison, and panelists Eduardo Santana Castellón, Director, Museum of Environmental Sciences, and Emeritus Professor, University of Guadalajara; Marta Rofin Serrà, Founder & CEO, Health Cities, and Director, “Urban Planning & Health,” Polytechnic University of Catalonia; and Carlos Moreno, Professor, IAE…
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Global Health Tuesday: Connecting Health Through Impactful Storytelling
EVENT DATE: March 11, 2025, 10-11am (CST), featuring moderator Sara McKinnon, Professor of Rhetoric, Politics & Culture, Communication Arts, & Faculty Director, LACIS, UW–Madison, and panelists Riley Ray Griffin, Technology Reporter, Bloomberg News; Apoorva Mandavilli, Science & Global Health Reporter, New York Times; and Jamie Hansen, Communications Manager, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health.
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Global Health Tuesday: Women in Science
EVENT DATE: February 25, 2025, 9-10am (CST), featuring moderator Kristin Long, Associate Professor of Surgery, UW–Madison, and panelists Caroline Zellmer, Senior Program Manager, Foresite Labs, and Zuzana Burivalova, Assistant Professor, Forest and Wildlife Ecology, UW–Madison.
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Henry Anderson III Graduate Award Empowers Medical Student Jonathan Bryan to Explore Social Determinants of Health in Medellín, Colombia
Jonathan Bryan holds up the Badger ‘W’ as a first-year medical student (Photo from J. Bryan) By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Winter 2023, with his Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology, Molecular and Cell Biology, and Psychology, Jonathan Bryan decided to apply for the Henry Anderson III Graduate Award…
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Help GHI Transform the Future of Global Health
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI), we believe health is interconnected across all living systems—human, animal, plant, and the environment. In today’s world, where global health challenges like emerging diseases, climate change, and resource scarcity are increasingly complex, we need innovative, transdisciplinary solutions. That’s where GHI is making a profound impact. And…