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Channel 3000: Rare tick returns to Wisconsin: Its bite could make you allergic to meat; what else to know
GHI Advisory Committee member and UW Entomology department chair Susan Paskewitz discusses what you need to know about the lone star tick as it returns to Wisconsin.
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Reciprocal Exchange Stories: Nurses Karen Lied (Wisconsin) and 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow Maxwell Kumbeini (Ghana)
Nurses Karen Lied (Wisconsin) and 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow Maxwell Kumbeini (Ghana) collaborated on a two-week educational and technical program discussing menstrual hygiene and sexual and reproductive health in rural Ghanaian schools.
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UW-Madison honors outstanding community-university partnerships
2019 Community-University Partnership Awards, presented by Chancellor Rebecca Blank, recognize the work of individuals and organizations across Wisconsin that partner with UW–Madison faculty, staff, and students to address pressing public issues.
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Research and policy priorities for edible insects
GHI postdoctoral research associate Valerie Stull and GHI Director Jonathan Patz released a policy paper about food systems, climate change and insects.
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Long delays prescribing new antibiotics hinder market for needed drugs
U.S. hospitals wait over a year on average to begin prescribing newly developed antibiotics, a delay that might threaten the supply or discourage future development of needed drugs. Warren Rose, a professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, studied this delay and its consequences.