University of Wisconsin–Madison

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

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

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

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

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

From Lost Boy to health activist

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

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 …

Call for applications: Wisconsin Without Borders Recognition Awards for Global Engaged Scholarship

Call for applications: Wisconsin Without Borders Recognition Awards for Global Engaged Scholarship.

AFRICaide’s 4th Annual International Women’s Day 2017: Be Bold for Change

Purpose: To bring together women of all backgrounds to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women in many places around the world and to think about ways in which we can accelerate gender parity. Will you Be Bold For Change on International Women’s Day 2017 and beyond by taking groundbreaking action that …

One Health Happy Hour

Featured presentations by our director, Jonathan Patz, and Jonathan Sleeman, center director of USGS National Wildlife Health Center. Discussion to follow moderated by  Christopher Olsen, professor emeritus, School of Veterinary Medicine and Global Health Institute.

Global Health Tuesday: Graduate scholars report

Two of the GHI Graduate Student Research Awards recipients report back on their work to further global health across the world. Camilla Reuterswaerd , a Ph.D., candidate in the Department of Political Science, looks at what happened to reproductive rights in Mexico after abortion was legalized in 2007. Jiang, a graduate student in the Department …