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Maps provide zip code-level detail on risk of COVID-19 complications across Wisconsin
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Preventing the next pandemic: Urgency for a Planetary Health approach
GHI Director Jonathan Patz explores the links between the emergency of new viruses and environmental disruption at the Nelson Institute’s Earth Day.
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Artists find ways to help families get through coronavirus pandemic
The Giant Snorflaggle, resplendent in a fantastic top hat, wings to fly and a pointed tail, is on the job to help children understand the coronavirus pandemic. “Parents need to wash their hands. Kids need to wash their hands. Even the Giant Snorflaggle needs to wash its hands – all four!” That’s the message in…
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Survey finds majority of Wisconsin residents say they practice social distancing ‘very much’
The report – funded in part by GHI and 4W – used responses given by 503 Wisconsin residents to a survey researchers at the university conducted from March 26 to April 1 asking 2,251 U.S. adults to self-report their physical distancing practices.
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GHI joins call for WHO Equity Task Force
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) joins policy-makers along with medical, academic and non-profit organizations from around the world to call on the World Health Organization to form a Global Health Equity Task Force. The letter comes in light of the escalating impact of the coronavirus pandemic on vulnerable and marginalized populations across…