Dr. Cindy Haq was recently interviewed on Wisconsin Public Radio. It was a really successful program that garnered a lot of response from their audience.  Here is the link to the show’s website where you can stream the show by clicking “listen” or, for the next month and a half or so, you can download the MP3.  http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_090722k.cfm

Twinning Center Launches New Partnership to Strengthen Emergency Medical Services in Ethiopia
Program will build capacity to provide urgent care and related education and training at Addis Ababa University Faculty of Medicine at Black Lion Hospital.

Certificate in Global Health featured in Alumni Quarterly  "Going Global: Global Health learning opportunities abound for medical students and others."
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I am delighted to announce that the Center for Global Health was awarded a grant of $38,000 from the Baldwin/Reilly Idea Endowment for our proposal “Interdisciplinary Public Health in Mexico: A Service-Learning Demonstration Project.” The project will support credit-based field work in Mexico over the next three years. This work will be carried out in conjunction with PHS 645 sec 04 Global Health Field Study: Mexico
This project will take place in the context of the ongoing partnership between the Center for Global Health and the University of Guadalajara. To date we have hosted faculty exchanges in veterinary medicine and nursing, and 6 of our certificate students have completed their field work at this site. Additionally, two medical students have done clinical rotations affiliated with the University of Guadalajara, and 5 medical students participated in a study there. We will continue to explore interdisciplinary public health activities as well as discipline specific clerkships, rotations and residencies.
The PI for this effort is Lori DiPrete Brown. She will be holding a briefing for Global Health faculty and students interested in being involved in the Baldwin initiative or the broader partnership later this month. Please join me in congratulating Lori on developing this initiative.

Sincerely, Cindy Haq, Director, CGH
 

The Center for Global Health and International Academic Programs announce Summer 2009
 Field Course Opportunities in Uganda, Thailand, and Ecuador

The following global health courses will be offered Summer, 2009:
“Ecuador:  Language, Culture & Community Health” (Otavalo, Ecuador)
“Thailand:  Public Health and Infectious Diseases” (Bangkok, Thailand)
“Uganda: Health and Disease Field Experience” (Kampala, Uganda).
Apply for field courses at the International Academic Programs (IAP) website, www.studyabroad.wisc.edu. 

Application deadlines:
Summer 2009 Uganda and Thailand field courses-- December 12, 2008  Summer 2009 Ecuador field course--February 13, 2009

Please note that there are pre-requisites for the Thailand and Uganda field courses that must be taken Spring semester*.
Please visit the Center for Global Health website, www.pophealth.wisc.edu/gh for more course information, including 2008 syllabi for Uganda and Thailand semester courses. *Please note that there are pre-requisites for the Thailand and Uganda courses that must be taken Spring semester. The 2 credit pre-requisite for the Thailand field course is "Health and Disease in Thailand-Pathogens, Animals, People, and Healing Plants in the Tropics" (PHS 650, section 40). The 2 credit pre-requisite for the Uganda field course is "Health and Disease in Uganda" (PHS 650, section 30).  Registration begins November 10 for the pre-requisite semester courses.
 

Request for Myanmar Emergency Response Team
The American Refugee Committee a nongovernmental organization focused on the health and well-being and refugees and internally displaced people, is responding to the recent events in Myanmar. ARC estimates 1 million people have been displaced. ARC has requested names of qualified professionals who may be interested in being part of an emergency response team. If you are interested in receiving further information and/or submitting your contact information to ARC

Professor Linda Baumann presented the keynote address on March 29, 2008 at the
Midwest Nursing Research Society in Indianapolis, IN entitled:
Nursing in Africa: Beyond HIV/AIDS and Into Chronic Care.

The Badger Herald reports on Florence Chenoweth's Fourth Annual Global Health Symposium keynote address

The Human Rights Initiative at UW-Madison Spring Lecture Series

“Health as a Human Right: The Right to Health in Theory and Practice”
read background material by Stephen Marks, Docteur d’état, Dipl. IHEI

Fourth Annual Global Health Symposium
"Global Health and Human Rights"