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Fifth Annual Global Health Symposium
February 4, 2009, 5:00-9:00pm
HSLC 1306
“Wisconsin and the World: Working Together for Sustainable Health”
Are you interested or involved in global health? You are cordially invited to attend, share your work with the UW community, and learn from others. The UW-Madison Center for Global Health will sponsor its fifth annual symposium to highlight the exciting global health efforts of UW faculty, staff, and students, as well as colleagues from the Madison area and beyond. We welcome presentations and participants from all disciplines that contribute to the improvement of global health or the conditions necessary for health.
Our keynote speaker will be Tony Goldberg, PhD, DVM, MS, Professor of Epidemiology at the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine. Dr. Goldberg is also a professor and affiliate with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies as well as an ad hoc Steering Committee member for the Center for Global Health. He also serves as Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.
A named priority in the most recent UW-Madison Strategic Plan is “Amplify the Wisconsin Idea”. One of the goals of this priority is “to vigorously share advances in science and knowledge with the people of the state, the country, and the world.” Dr. Tony Goldberg has been very active in advancing this goal in his collaboration with our global health partners in Uganda. Dr. Goldberg’s keynote presentation, “Human, Animal, and Ecosystem Health in Uganda: a Case Study for Disease Emergence and Preventive Medicine in the Developing World” will address how anthropogenic changes to natural ecosystems are altering human and wildlife ecology in ways that facilitate pathogen transmission and the emergence of new diseases; nowhere is this more evident than in sub-Saharan Africa. Identification of various factors will point to clear strategies for intervention through public health, conservation, and wildlife management. These strategies will help improve the health of people living in developing countries while also helping to safeguard the health of wildlife and their ecosystems. These same strategies will help prevent novel infectious diseases with animal origins from emerging out of environments such as equatorial Africa and affecting human health on a global scale.
Following Dr. Goldberg’s keynote address, participants may select from concurrent sessions featuring brief presentations of global health activities. If you are interested in sharing a 10-minute presentation of your work in global health, please see the requirements below. The symposium will end with a reception and time for networking.
Submission requirements:
Abstracts should be sent via e-mail to Betsy Teigland at the Center for Global Health, teigland@wisc.edu (300 word maximum.) They should include a background statement of the problem and context, description of the project and participants, and outcomes if available. In the heading of your abstract, please provide your name, e-mail address, phone number, UW affiliation, the country where you have worked and a title for your presentation. Abstracts will be posted on the Center for Global Health website. Deadline for submissions is December 19, 2008. You will be notified of the status of your presentation by January 9, 2009.
Attendance at the symposium is free of charge, open to the public, and no registration is required. For more information, please contact Betsy Teigland at teigland@wisc.edu or 262-3862.
Friday, January 30 at 3:30 pm, in room 180 Science Hall:
