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UW-Madison publishing and printing team makes face shields for UW Hospital workers

MADISON – Trying to unwind after a long, hectic day working at UW Health, Leigh Larson couldn’t fall asleep. As director of graduate medical education and medical staff administration, her mind raced through the frightening scenarios that lay ahead for her health care colleagues bracing for the COVID-19 storm. Both concerned and restless, Leigh and …

Hope to get nasal vaccine against Covid-19 into market in 12-18 months

Krishna Ella, a GHI Board of Visitors member and chairman of Bharat Biotech, discusses the COVID-19 vaccine collaboration.

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.