Sara McKinnon in Necoclí, Colombia, learning about the important work of the Interagency Group for Mixed Migration (GIFMM in Spanish) and their #gifmmcontigo information campaign, providing people with access to information to keep them safe in transit. (Photo from Migration in the Americas Project) By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Ever since UW-Madison Professor Sara McKinnon started …
EVENT DATE: March 19 2024, 9-10am (CST), featuring GHI Director Jorge Osorio with panelists Tom Erickson, Juan Caicedo, and Rob Nowak.
Karl Ciuoderis (left) and GHI Director Jorge Osorio conducting field research in the Amazon in Colombia. (Photo from Abbott) By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Growing up in the Colombian countryside, Karl Ciuoderis knew he wanted to help animals. His love for domestic animals grew as they delightfully surrounded him on his family’s property. “It was like …
EVENT DATE: February 20, 2024, 9-10am (CST), featuring GHI Director Jorge Osorio as moderator, with panelists Chris Karp and Peter Kilmarx.
EVENT DATE: April 10, 2024, 4:30-8:30pm. The event includes GHI Director Jorge Osorio moderating a UW-Madison panel to explore the future of global health in their work, a keynote speaker, and posters from across campus to showcase global health projects.
EVENT DATE: January 30, 2024, 9-10am, featuring GHI Advisory Member Alberto Vargas as moderator, with panelists Jennifer Garrett, Charles Raison, and Tura Patterson.
EVENT DATE: December 5, 2023, 9-10am (note the earlier time), featuring GHI Advisory Member Giri Venkataramanan.
EVENT DATE: October 31, 2023, 9-10am (note the earlier time), featuring GHI Advisory Member Nancy Kendall.
Welcome to this special segment of GHI News, where communications intern Kendall Buehl will share the amazing stories of UW–Madison students collaborating with the Global Health Institute. By Kendall Buehl, GHI Staffer…Over the 2023 summer term, UW–Madison students Brody Andes and Natalia Betancourt Rodriguez put the Wisconsin Idea into global action. As part of the …
By Katie Newcomb, GHI Communications Director…Madison Microneurosurgery Initiative (MMI) Founder Abdullah Keles, MD, saw a problem and wanted to solve it. The problem, illuminated through his work as Mustafa K. Baskaya Lab Manager within the Department of Neurological Surgery in UW–Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health, was the lack of available microscopes and microneurosurgery …