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Wisconsin Science Festival

The four-day Wisconsin Science Festival is a statewide celebration with events across Wisconsin for people of all ages. 285+ events include hands-on science exhibitions, demonstrations, performances, tours, pub nights, workshops and more. The Wisconsin Science Festival received the Key of Excellence Award from Phi Beta Kappa in 2014 for “blending science with both the arts and humanities …

Undergraduate Global Health Field Course Fair

Interested in learning about how to improve the health of people, all life and the environment without necessarily practicing medicine? Would you like to know what makes people healthy in different communities—and learn from different cultures and experts around the world about the determinants of health? Are you wondering how to complete the field course …

Iris International Film Series

Please join the UW IRIS for the first annual Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) international film series! As part of this year’s International Education Week programming, IRIS along with its regional centers and the International Division, will be showing a series of international films. Several of the selected films have a UW-Madison connection (faculty, students …

Global Health Tuesday: Quality Improvement

Lori DiPrete Brown, GHI associate director for Education and Engagement, has spent decades collaborating to bring the principles of quality improvement to underserved communities and organizations to improve health and well-being for all. She advocates for a culture of quality and documentable progress. She is director of the annual GHI Quality Improvement Leadership Institute, and …

Can Season-Ahead Cyanobacteria Forecasts Improve Lake Mendota Beach Management?

GHI Advisory Committee member Paul J. Block, assistant professor in civil and environmental engineering, discusses a model to help predict the potential for cyanobacteria biomass and beach closings during the summer season.

Strength in Connection: GHI Director’s Report October 2017

Strength In Connection, the October 2017 Global Health Institute Director’s Report is now available online. Learn about GHI’s education program and our future leaders. Check in with virus sleuth Tony Goldberg See how GHI grants fuel research across campus Discover how the GHI Quality Improvement Leadership Institute connected with the Dalai Lama Understand how GHI …

GHI Advisory Committee member leads research finding H7N9 influenza is both lethal and transmissible in animal model for flu

GHI Advisory Committee member leads research finding H7N9 influenza is both lethal and transmissible in animal model for flu

Africanists at Work

Meet alumni who transformed their interest in the continent into a substantial career! Join the African Studies Program for a round-table networking event with alumni whose Africa-focused careers range from global health to corporate law to the Foreign Service. Pizza will be provided! The event also features Ambassador John E. Lange, a member of the …

Jordahl Public Lands Lecture feat. Carolyn Finney

Carolyn Finney, Ph.D. is a writer, performer and cultural geographer. As a professor in geography at the University of Kentucky, she is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity and resilience. In particular, she explores how issues of difference impact participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. More broadly, she likes …

Building Community 2017: A Global Health Celebration

The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute is a community builder and catalyst that pulls together colleagues from across campus and communities across the world to tackle today’s health challenges. We also help educate tomorrow’s global health leaders and scholars. More than 1,000 students have earned global health certificates and hundreds have participated in field …