University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Neighborhood Disadvantage: Informing New Approaches to Medicare Policy and Health Delivery for Vulnerable Older Adults

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Living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhood is associated with education, health behaviors, stress, mortality and disease. These associations have been recognized for decades, yet applications of these concepts have been limited in fields of health policy and health delivery. Amy Kind, MD, Ph.D., associate professor in the UW-Madison Department of Medicine and associate director of …

Webcast: Protecting the health and wellbeing of communities in a changing climate

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The Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research and Medicine, and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement are hosting the joint workshop on Protecting the Health and Wellbeing of Communities in a Changing Climate. The meeting will explore the implications of climate change for population health and potential strategies public health, environmental health, health care and …

Expanding local food access to consumers, schools and businesses

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Helen Sarakinos, executive director of the REAP Food Group, is part of the Caring for Creation Series at Bethel Lutheran Church. Sarakinos is a seasoned advocate and organizer for issues that impact our community’s children’s citizens, food, and water. In her presentation, she will talk about the work of REAP Food Group, which has become a …

Weston Roundtable: Environmental Impacts of Evolving Consumer Technology

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Andrea Hicks, assistant professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, looks at the environmental, economic and societal impacts of our evolving technology. Tools such as life-cycle assessment and agent-based modeling allow for the quantification of these impacts, and generate an understanding of potential unintended consequences. Hicks will explore these by looking at products such as energy-efficient …

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Animal to man, fear of the next pandemic

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GHI's Tony Goldberg helps unravel cause of orangutan's death in Milwaukee zoo, traces unidentified tapeworm.

The cryptic origins of Ebola in West Africa: science and narratives of spillover in Meliandou

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James Fairhead is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Sussex. His research covers  anthropogenic landscapes and indigenous agro-ecological knowledge.  In a trio of books, he examined how the environmental sciences and policy engage with the lives and perspectives of land users. His presentation is part of a year-long “One Health and History in Africa …

Livestream: Population Health Spotlight with Jonathan Patz

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GHI Director Jonathan Patz presents “Confronting the Global Climate Crisis May be the Best Way to Fight Chronic Diseases” at Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health. Listen live at http://drexel.edu/dornsife/news/events/population-health-spotlight/. The talk will also be available on-demand.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Climate change and chronic disease: twin perils and a golden opportunity to solve both

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GHI Director Jonathan Patz outlines how health benefits from reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

From Lost Boy to health activist

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Jacob Atem will share his journey from a genocide survivor to health activist in his home village. Atem was 6 when his parents were killed, his siblings lost, and his village in southern Sudan was decimated by genocide. He became one of nearly 20,000 “Lost Boys” from South Sudan, orphaned and fleeing war. He fled 1,000 …

Food Sovereignty symposium and festival

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The Food Sovereignty Symposium and Festival will be held March 10-12 on the University of Wisconsin campus and surrounding sites in Madison, Wisconsin.  The symposium component of event is focusing on Indigenous and broader topics of food sovereignty that impact how communities and individuals control and manage their food systems, and the festival component is …