2017 Symposium Call for Abstracts
Members of the UW-Madison and extended global health community are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 2017 Global Health Symposium.
Members of the UW-Madison and extended global health community are invited to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations at the 2017 Global Health Symposium.
GHI welcomed 40 students from seven area high schools for High School Global Health Day.
Lauren Stockman, MPH, is an epidemiologist in the AIDS/HIV Program at the Wisconsin Division of Public Health, whose work focuses on describing the changing epidemiology of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Wisconsin and promoting testing effort among populations at risk for HCV infection. She will show how Wisconsin’s opioid epidemic has led to another …
UW-Madison is hosting a project designed to explore women’s existing roles in African peacemaking and to see what lessons can be gleaned from their mostly informal initiatives.
For the first time since 1972, UW-Madison has dropped out of the top five, to sixth in the research rankings.
In recognition of medical student research and the accomplishments of more than 100 second year medical students who conducted research last summer, you are cordially invited to attend the 15th Annual SMPH Medical Student Research Forum!
GHI Director Jonathan Patz takes a closer look at the latest research on the health “co-benefits” of climate mitigation. Patz is a pioneer in making connections between climate and health and showing how the steps needed to mitigate carbon emissions will also improve well-being. He has looked, for example, at the co-benefits of bicycling, which …
NOVEMBER 14-18, 2016 International Education Week celebrates the benefits of international education through events, programs and other activities on campus. See the events below or view the flyer. Find events hosted by campus partners by searching the university calendar for the “international” tag. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT FAIR FEATURING KEYNOTE SPEAKER WAJAHAT ALI 4-6:30 p.m., …
Individuals from infectious disease, global health, MMI, engineering, and the computational biology community will all find this talk of interest and will come away with new knowledge. It will be both clinically and scientifically relevant.
The Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) is used to track changes in women’s empowerment that are a direct or indirect result of the US government’s interventions under the Feed the Future initiative to tackle global hunger and food security. A major goal of Feed the Future is to increase understanding of the multiple and …