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Healthcare Access and Reform: A Panel Discussion

Finding equity for rural and urban communities REGISTER NOW Significant changes are underway in federal and state policy related to how we pay for and deliver healthcare. These policies affect everyone in the state, as do trends of an aging population and advances in technology. Furthermore, many Wisconsin residents are employed by hospitals, insurance companies, …

Global Health Tuesday: Polluted Fish and Cycles of Poverty

2016 GHI Seed Grant Recipient Peter McIntyre discusses his project on tracing the global scope of mercury contamination of inland subsistence fisheries, ecological patterns, health threats and source tracking. This project addresses an unrecognized facet of the cycle of poverty: contamination of food fish with neurotoxins. Mercury from global and local sources biomagnifies in fish, and …

Climate Change Symposium

2:15 – 3:15 PM Student Flash Talks 3:15 – 4:15 PM Poster Session and Reception 4:15-5:15 PM Keynote Address: Life and Death on a Remote Pacific Reef Kim Cobb, Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Tech At the Georgia Institute of Technology, Dr. Kim Cobb holds positions as a Professor in the Department of Earth …

Envisioning Climate Change Impacts on the World’s Deadliest Animals

Presented as part of the Climate, People and the Environment Program, presented by the Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research. Each semester the Climate, People, and the Environment Program hosts a weekly seminar featuring lectures by visiting speakers as well as presentations by CPEP faculty, scientists, and students. In some semesters the CPEP Seminar has a …