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2020 UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Awards

Congratulations to Paul Block, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, and Andrea Hicks, a Planetary Health Scholars advisor, on receiving this year’s UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award.

Pandemic: COVID-19 documentary

Ajay Sethi, associate professor of Population Health Sciences and a GHI Advisory Committee member, was featured in the Discovery Channel’s “Pandemic: COVID-19.”

COVID-19 disrupts a major year for biodiversity policy and planning

GHI Associate Director Tony Goldberg says crisis is delaying efforts to preserve biodiversity.

Wisconsin infectious diseases expert: Allowing in-person voting Tuesday ‘just seems really irresponsible’

GHI Associate Director James Conway says Tuesday election poses significant health risks.

Which COVID-19 future will we choose?

Amid this global health crisis, it is important to consider what a post-Covid-19 world might look like and what destructive paths the pandemic might take.

UW NOW features Nasia Safdar on COVID-19 preparedness

UW-Madison’s Nasia Safdar, M.S., Ph.D., talks about the preparedness of the health system to blunt the tide of COVID-19.

UW-Madison, Flugen, Bharat Biotech to develop coroflu, a coronavirus vaccine

UW-Madison researcher Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, is part of an international collaboration developing and testing a COVID-19 vaccine.

Death Projections Can Make Us Feel Helpless. One Expert Explains a Better Way to Get People to Act.

UW-Madison’s Dominique Brossard discusses with Mother Jones how to convince people to take steps to slow COVID-10.

We Can Go the Distance Together: 10 ways you can do your part

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Communication Collaborative for COVID-19 Response has developed 10 essential steps to limit the spread of COVID-19. They reflect the overall need for maintaining a physical distance from each other, washing you hands and staying home: Physical distancing means avoiding non-essential outings and staying six feet from others when you go out. …

UW responds to racist incidents, COVID-19 pandemic through Zoom town hall

ver 400 people tuned into a virtual town hall Thursday to hear University of Wisconsin-Madison administrators discuss responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, most notably a recent rise in hate and racist incidents.