Synthetic biology is a fast-moving innovative field with the potential to change our relationship to the natural world. It involves the design and construction of new biological parts, and the re-design of existing, natural biological systems. It has many potential applications, including replacing natural products with synthetic ones, reviving extinct species, and creating powerful tools …
Join the Wisconsin Academy for their monthly conversation in the Environmental Breakfast series, “We’ll Always Have Paris.” The topic for this gathering will be “How Counties can lead” with Keith Reopelle, Director, Dane County Office of Energy and Climate Change. This series is presented as part of the Wisconsin Academy’s Climate & Energy Initiative. Register here.
Ebola Survivor Corps, Doctors Without Borders-Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), the UWSMPH Infectious Disease Interest Group and WUD Film present Affliction, a powerful MSF documentary about the devastating effects of the 2014 Ebola epidemic from West Africa to Madison. Shot in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Affliction provides an intimate look at the impact of the Ebola outbreak on the …
Sponsored by the Center for Journalism Ethics. Three experts will join faculty, staff and students with an interest in health policy or communication at the Overture Center: •Sarah Kliff, health policy journalist at Vox •David Wahlberg, health and medicine reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal •J. Paul Kelleher, assistant professor of bioethics at UW-Madison RSVP …
Professor Wins Award for Research on Genocide
New Certificate Brings Humanities Into Health Care Studies
Because age is a central principle of social organization, aging trajectories — in their temporality, social meaning and roles — are highly sensitive to social change. This change is influenced by economic and societal changes, and by interrelated processes of changing norms. However, in between relatively stable norms and changing practices we see a concept …
Sustainability is about people. It’s about you. It’s about all of us — together. To create a better future, we must honor the diverse experiences that make us human. But, at the same time, we must embrace the universal humanity that connects us all. At Sustain Dane’s Badger Bioneers Conference, we will explore the idea of human(ity) — the duality of …
Health economist Katherine Baicker will give the 2017 Paul Offner Lecture, titled, The Effect of Medicaid Spending, Health, and Well-Being: Evidence and Implications for Reform. With the future of Medicaid and public health insurance subsidies in flux, gauging the effects of public insurance on health care spending, financial security, and physical and mental health is …
Full presentation below: Donghoon Lee, a graduate student in civil and environmental engineering, will discuss his research with Paul Block, who received a 2016 GHI Seed Grant to investigate how better flood prediction can support advanced disaster preparedness and identify public health risks. Among all natural hazards, flood catastrophes consistently have the greatest impact …