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Taking Quality Home: 2017 Quality Improvement Leadership Symposium

Thirty students and health leaders from a dozen countries present their take-home projects from 2017 Quality Improvement Leadership Institute. After a week of working with UW faculty, staff, students, and each other, they leave with measurable steps to improve health, addressing challenges from infant mortality to empowering girls to managing medical equipment. The annual Quality …

New York Times: Fungi Physics — How Those Spores Launch Just Right

GHI Advisory member Anne Pringle contributes to a new paper about how mushrooms send spores in the right direction. Story from the NY Times.

PHYS.ORG: Study suggests investment pays off in safety for walkers, bikers

GHI's Jason Vargo contributes to a new study of walking and bicycling that suggests investing in infrastructure to encourage both correlates with fewer pedestrian and bicyclist deaths.

One Health idea gives Young African fellows new ways to promote health

The idea of One Health – that the health of humans, animals and ecosystems are interconnected—gave the Mandela Washington Fellows from Africa new ways to address health challenges.

Global Health Tuesday: Non-Communicable Diseases, Climate Change and Development in Africa

Alexis Nizigiyimana, a medical doctor in Burundi, founded the Burundi chapter of the Young Professional Chronic Diseases Network. He will discuss the burden of the four top non-communicable diseases in Africa—diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and chronic respiratory diseases. He will explore access to essential medicines, the links to climate change, and the way forward. Burundi …

Communications intern position open at GHI

GHI is looking for a social media savvy communications intern who is also ready to help with other projects.

2017 Quality Improvement Leadership Institute

The annual Quality Improvement Leadership Institute brings together participants from Wisconsin and across the world who work with UW-Madison faculty, staff and students, and each other, to implement small changes that can improve care. Details about the 2017 QI Leadership Institute will be available soon. GHI organizes and hosts the annual, week-long learning opportunity. Read …

Redefining the African narrative: YALI Mini-Conference

Dane County Board passes UniverCity Alliance to collaborate with students

Dane County Board passes UniverCity Alliance to collaborate with students

DOE selects Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center for next-phase funding

DOE selects Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center for next-phase funding