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Study Connects Climate Hazards to 58% of Infectious Diseases
Former GHI Director Jonathan Patz is co-author on a new study that links climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought to worsening disease in people.
Wisconsin Partnership Program announces 2022 Collaborative Health Sciences Program grant recipients
GHI Advisory Committee Members Ajay Sethi and Yoshihiro Kawaoka collaborators on selected grant award.
Wisconsin’s Covid Condition: Pediatric vaccination expands, omicron settles in
GHI Associate Director James Conway discusses importance of pediatric vaccination amid elevated omicron transmission and more.
GHI opens new Colombian collaboration opportunities for UW researchers
With GHI One Health Colombia, the Global Health Institute invites UW researchers to collaborate with colleagues and communities in Colombia for mutual benefit.
July global health webinar to discuss U.S. blacklegged tick population
Watch the video from the July 26 Global Health Tuesday on blacklegged ticks in the U.S.
New GHI report examines hemp and UN Sustainable Development Goals
A new report from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI) outlines how industrial hemp can contribute to the United Nations framework for a sustainable and equitable future for all. The report, “Industrializing Hemp …
Global health electives in the COVID-19 era: resuming travel and strengthening global health academic partnerships
GHI Associate Director James Conway co-author on new paper outlining best practices for resuming global health electives safe and ethically.
Summer webinar looks at benefits of industrialized hemp
JUNE 21: Panelists from UW-Madison, UW Health, the University of Lagos, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, and the Wisconsin Hemp Alliance will join the webinar and launch of the new report, “Industrializing Hemp to Advance the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals.”
2022 GHI grants address the complexity of global health challenges
Establishing a cohort of girls in Zimbabwe to examine how well the HPV vaccine works over time Assessing the health of sanctuary chimpanzees in Uganda and Republic of Congo by identifying the viruses in their …
From STAT: U.S. monkeypox case reported, as Spain, Portugal report infections in growing outbreak
With a case discovered in the U.S., concern grows about the spread of the monkeypox infection.
SDG 360 Thinking from Classroom to Community: 5 Ways to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals
GHI Associate Director Lori DiPrete Brown presents five ways university-community partnerships can advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Colombia-UW agreement opens new doors for global health training and research
A new agreement between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Colombian government opens opportunities for research and bilateral exchanges for students and researchers, says Jorge Osorio, the new director of the UW-Madison Global Health Institute …
Cutting air pollution emissions would save 50,000 U.S. lives, $600 billion each year
Eliminating air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would prevent more than 50,000 premature deaths each year and provide more than $600 billion in benefits each year from avoided illness and death, …
Bharat Biotech co-founder receives honorary degree
The University of Wisconsin–Madison recognizes these extraordinary contributions of delivering over4 billion vaccines to people in 123 countries by awarding Krishna the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2011 and an honorary degree in 2022.
Osorio to lead UW’s Global Health Institute
Wisconsin alumnus Jorge Osorio, DVM, Ph.D., an international expert in epidemiology, virology and vaccines, has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute (GHI). A professor of pathobiological sciences in the School …
Global Health Tuesdays look at many determinants of health
Watch the videos from the spring slate of Global Health Tuesday webinars.
UniverCity Year seeks new local government partners
UniverCity Year is seeking new local government partners to work toward practical solutions to locally-identified challenges during the 2022-2025 academic years. The deadline to apply is Monday, Aug. 1, 2022 by noon CDT.
Four UW–Madison students awarded prestigious 2022 Goldwater Scholarships
Four University of Wisconsin–Madison students have been named winners of 2022 Barry Goldwater Scholarships, one of the most prestigious awards in the U.S. for undergraduates studying the sciences. The UW–Madison winners are sophomore Lucy Steffes and juniors Sarah Fahlberg, Elias Kemna and Samuel Neuman.
UW–Madison professor shapes UN report on climate change
The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report urges immediate action to limit greenhouse gas emissions in all sectors of the economy, including energy, transportation, construction, manufacturing and agriculture. GHI Advisory Committee member, Greg Nemet, is one of the report’s lead authors.