Our community of global health colleagues is always on the lookout for news, events, funding opportunities and generally cool things relevant to global health at UW-Madison. You can find those postings in the list below. If you have others you would like to display here, please send them to Jake Moskol.

Building on themes presented in the 2009 Reaccreditation Project , the UW-Madison campus launched a new Global Health Initiative (GHI)  to confront large, complex, global health problems through multidisciplinary collaborative efforts in research, education, and service learning, with a special emphasis on furthering global health research.   The GHI seeks to promote new partnerships campus-wide that foster collaborative work across all disciplines, including the arts,  humanities, and social studies, as well as the health sciences.  Under the leadership of co-chairs Jeanette Roberts (Dean, School of Pharmacy), and Jeremi  Suri (Professor of History), members of the GHI are working collaboratively to develop new solutions and programs with a thematic focus of “Understanding Root Causes, Anticipating Emerging Problems, and Innovating New Solutions”.

If you haven’t heard about the Big Learning Event (BLE), now is the time to learn more!  The GHI is partnering with the BLE organizers to bring you Dr. Nathan Wolfe as a speaker for this event.  Here are some key details so you can mark your calendar now!

Date:  Wednesday, June 8th

Time:  8:30am-9:45am

Location: Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Town Center Forum

Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is the science expert behind many recent news stories on human health and virus transfer, such as swine flu, monkey pox, West Nile, SARS and Ebola. He works to forecast and contain new plagues before they kill millions.  Nathan Wolfe is the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University and Director of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative (http://www.gvfi.org/index.php).

Learn more about Dr. Wolfe here:  http://www.gvfi.org/wolfe/index.php

We are happy to bring Dr. Wolfe to the Town Center Forum at WID for FREE! Note:  If you will be attending other sessions related to the BLE, a registration fee is required and you can learn more about that at the BLE homepage:  https://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/home/HideATab/ConferencesSpecialEvents/TheBIGLearningEvent/tabid/354/Default.aspx

If you plan to attend, please reply here so we know you will be coming: http://ghi.wisc.edu/nathan-wolfe-attendance/

In concert with the GHI Incubator, the GHI released the full the text of a RFP, which you can find here: GHI RFP. It can also be found under the Documents section of this site. Please note these key dates:

GHI Incubator attendance and proposal development: January-June, 2011

Pre-proposals due: 5:00pm, Friday, April 15, 2011

Grant proposals due: 5:00pm, Wednesday, July 1, 2011

Review period: July-August, 2011

Awards announced: August, 2011

Funding begins: September 1, 2011