Background: Lead exposure can cause adverse health effects and is a known occupational hazard in the shipyard industry. On March 28, 2016, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) learned of three workers with elevated blood lead levels (BLLs) >40 µg/dL. These workers had been retrofitting a 690-foot vessel …
Graduate/Professional Certificate in Global Health Alexandra MacMillan Uribe among members chosen for Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
GHI's Jim Conway weighs in on new vaccine study from CDC.
Nurse Susan Gold discusses her journey from volunteer to developing life-saving strategies for teens with HIV/AIDS.
The climate of our state, our country and the world is evolving rapidly. Vital resources of land, water, environment and infrastructure are threatened by rising temperature and changes in intensity and distribution of rainfall. We know why it’s happening. The basic physics of greenhouse gases has been known for 150 years. Climate models that incorporate …
Can the beauty of Earth re-inspire us even in the most trying times? Environmental historians (and journalists) face the challenge of telling stories that are true (and therefore too often lack happy endings) and yet do not cause our audiences to go numb and stop listening. After writing recent books on climate change and extinction, …
GHI Associate Director and disease detective Tony Goldberg is profiled in On Wisconsin magazine.
Matt Aliota, a pathobiologist in the School of Veterinary Medicine, is among this year's Forward Under 40 award recipients.
Through the Climate & Energy Initiative, the Wisconsin Academy and partners will convene a full-day summit to empower local Wisconsin leaders to advance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and resilience across the state. Building on the success of our inaugural local government summit in 2015, this event aims to inform key decision-makers on the latest technologies, funding …
For Our Planet, For Our Health, the Global Health Institute’s 2017 Global Health Symposium will be from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 4, 2017, in the Health Sciences Learning Center. The annual event is an opportunity for faculty, staff and students and community members from all disciplines to connect with each other and share their …