Roy F Weston Distinguished Global Sustainability Lectures

Monday, February 2, 2009
4:30 pm
Pyle Center, Vandeberg Auditorium (Room 121)
702 Langdon St.

Professor Diana Liverman
Director of the Environmental Change Institute
Oxford University Centre for the Environment

"Communities, climate change, and development: can the international climate regime deliver mitigation and adaptation that benefit the poor?"

Professor Diana Liverman is well known for her work on the impacts of climate change in developing countries. She has recently accepted a position as co-director with the University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment and Society. Previous to this, she served as the director of Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute. While her background is in geography, much of her professional career has focused on the societal impacts of climate change. She is especially interested in climate change impacts in Mexico and other parts of Latin America and has participated in many research projects in these regions.

Dr. Liverman has served on climate change committees for the US Social Science Research Council, the US National Academy, the NOAA, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Inter American Institute for Global Change Research. She is also an editorial board member for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Global Environmental Change, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and Climatic Change.

View slides and listen to audio of past lecutres

Global Health Lecture 1/30/09 at 3:30

Friday, January 30 at 3:30 pm, in room 180 Science Hall:

Matthew Sparke
University of Washington, Geography and International Studies
will be presenting:
"Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health"

Abstract: *Louis Pasteur once claimed that: The microbe is nothing; the terrain everything. So what, we should ask, is the terrain of global health in the context of growing global interdependency? How do different visions of globalization shape the way in which the global in global health is imagined and mapped? And what are the consequences for the ways in which the social determinants of health globally are understood and targeted for intervention? This talk outlines answers to these questions by exploring how four different socio-economic visions of globalization lead to four distinct mappings of global health problems, their causes and their susceptibility to different forms of local and global intervention.

A copy of the paper on which this talk is based is available on the website of the People's Health Movement: Unpacking Economism and Remapping the Terrain of Global Health
<http://www.phmovement.org/cms/files/%201SparkeGlobalHealth.pdf>.
Another version is also available, along with other publications by Professor Sparke <http://faculty.washington.edu/sparke/>.


Dr. Sparke will also be giving a brownbag talk at 12:00 in Room 350: "Teaching globalization amidst the challenges of re-presenting neoliberalism"

All attendees are also invited to join Dr. Sparke at the union following the talk.

FRESH Seminar Series

Spring 2009 FRI FRESH Seminar Series

When and Where: Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. 12:00 p.m. noon; room 6201 Microbial Sciences building (MSB), UW-Madison, 1550 Linden Drive

The attached poster is suitable for printing and posting.
Schedule:
Jan 27: "The Many Faces of Bacillus cereus and its Friends" (Jo Handelsman, HHMI Professor and Chair, Bacteriology, UW-Madison)
Feb 10: "Roles of StcE Mucinases in the Pathogenesis of Diarrheal Pathogens" (Rod Welch, Professor and Chair, Med. Micro. & Immunol., UW-Madison)
Feb 24: "Moving Food Safety Forward: Wisconsin's Plans for 2009 and Beyond" (Steve Ingham, DATCP)
Mar 10: "Emerging Microbiological Issues In Ready-To-Eat Beverages" (Sean Leighton, Senior Microbiologist, Coca-Cola North America)
Mar 24:"Mathematical Models for the Emergence and Persistence of VTEC in Calves" (Dorte Dopfer, Assist. Prof., Med. Sci., Veterinary Medicine, UW-Madison)
April 7: "Salmonella Not Just a Chicken and Egg Problem Any More" (Jeri Barak, Assist. Prof., Plant Pathology, UW-Madison)
April 21: "Recent Advances in the Control of Listeria monocytogenes in RTE Meat and Poultry Products" (Tim Freier, Director, Global Food Safety Technologies, Cargill)
May 5: "Cultivation of Norovirus in Aquatic Animal Cell Lines" (Kathy Kurth, Clinical Assoc. Prof., Wis. Veterinary Diagnostic Lab)

Questions? or for more information contact Amy Wong, acwong@wisc.edu, 608-263-1168

Certificate In Global Health

Would you like to develop or enhance your skills in the area of global health? The UW-Madison Center for Global Health invites graduate and health professions students and mid-career professionals to consider applying for the Certificate in Global Health, a collaborative offering of UW faculty from the Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy, Veterinary Medicine, and the Division of International Studies. Through a 9-credit program that includes a global health field experience, the certificate prepares candidates to address health issues that transcend national boundaries, with an emphasis on health and disease in developing countries. The program is based in the Department of Population Health Sciences of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and is administered by the Center for Global Health. Applications are now being accepted.

Available as a Graduate Certificate to professional students in the health sciences and graduate students in health-related fields, and available as a Capstone Certificate to health care practitioners and persons who have a BA or BS in a health-related field, the Certificate in Global Health program meets the needs of both traditional and non-traditional students with an interest in global health. Recognizing that candidates may want to develop global health skills while continuing with full-time employment, the core courses are offered outside of the workday and are web-enhanced for easy access to course materials and increased opportunities to interact with faculty and students. To read about our current students and graduates from the Certificate program, go to http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/gh/studentsinthefield.htm.

A detailed description of the certificate and an application form are available on the Center for Global Health website, http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/gh/certificate.htm. The application deadline for 2009-2010 is April 15, 2009. Please forward this e-mail to individuals and groups who may be interested. Attached in the comments section is the Certificate in Global Health Core Competencies document for your information.

Questions? Contact Betsy Teigland, Network and Resource Coordinator, Center for Global Health, teigland@wisc.edu.