University of Wisconsin–Madison

News list

Wisconsin battles rapid rise in COVID cases amid partisan disputes over safety

GHI Advisory Committee member Pat Remington sees a convergence of factors leading to upsurge.

How politics paralyzed Wisconsin’s pandemic response – and left families to grieve their losses

GHI Advisory Committee members Ajay Sethi and Dominique Brossard consider what makes messaging successful.

COVID-19 model quantifies impact of region-specific social distancing orders

New UW-Madison study quantifies impact of social distancing on COVID-19 caseload.

UW expert debunks flu myths

GHI Associate Director James Conway, M.D., busts seven common flu myths.

Campus blood drive to benefit COVID-19 convalescent plasma program in Madison and across the country

Students asked to participate in the Badgers Give Back Blood Drive will be from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 27-29.

Madison is home to one of the world’s top virologists

Professor Yoshihiro Kawaok, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, a is studying COVID-19 in his posts at UW-Madison and the University of Tokyo.

A warmer, wetter Wisconsin caused by climate change will have severe health impacts, report says

The Wisconsin Examiner takes a look at a new report showing the effects of climate change on health in Wisconsin.

New report shows how climate change is affecting Wisconsin’s health now

“Medical Alert: Climate Change is Harming our Health in Wisconsin," a new report from UW-Madison Professors Jonathan Patz and Dominique Brossard shows how climate change already affects Wisconsinites and what can be done to protect their health.

First relatives of rubella virus discovered in bats in Uganda and mice in Germany

At night in a Ugandan forest, a team of American and African scientists take oral swabs from insect-eating cyclops leaf-nosed bats. In a necropsy room near the Baltic Sea, researchers try to determine what killed a donkey, a Bennett’s tree-kangaroo and a capybara at a German zoo — all of them suffering from severe brain …

GHI 2019-2020 Impact Report charts progress on health challenges in Wisconsin and across the world

In the 2019-2020 Impact Report, read how the GHI community has worked across disciplines and around the world to address today's biggest health challenges, from COVID-19j to planetary health, advancing sustainable, equitable health for all.