{"id":12201,"date":"2019-08-20T16:01:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=12201"},"modified":"2019-08-20T16:01:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T21:01:52","slug":"midwest-universities-for-global-health-conference","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/event\/midwest-universities-for-global-health-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwest Universities for Global Health Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute is your host for the sixth annual Midwest Universities for Global Health conference. Join colleagues from more than 20 Midwestern academic institutions\u2014from Ohio to Iowa, Minnesota to Missouri\u2014to network and learn. For conference details, registration links, and lodging information, see <a href=\"https:\/\/ghi.wisc.edu\/mugh6.0\/\">the MUGH website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Agenda<\/h3>\n<h4>Friday, September 13, 5:30-7:30 p.m.<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cIn the Shadow of Ebola,\u201d film, panel &amp; reception at Signe Skott Cooper Hall, School of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>UW Professor Gregg Mitman produced this intimate documentary of how a Liberian family and the nation were torn apart by the Ebola outbreak that began in 2014. Mitman is joined by panelists Linda Vakunta, executive director of\u00a0Project 1808 in Sierra Leone and deputy mayor of Madison, Peter Halfmann, a UW Ebola research scientist with experience in Sierra Leone, and Janis Tupesis, a UW emergency physician who has worked in Liberia. They will explore parallels between the Liberian outbreak and the current Ebola emergency in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n<p>A reception follows the panel.<\/p>\n<p>Free and open to the public (registration required).<\/p>\n<h4>Saturday, September 14, 8:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.<\/h4>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s sessions take place at Union South. The registration fee is $40; student registration is $20. Sessions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Best Practices in Undergraduate Global Health Programming<\/li>\n<li>Best Practices in Graduate Global Health Programming<\/li>\n<li>Poster Session<\/li>\n<li>MUGH: A Brief Look Back &amp; Bold Look Forward<\/li>\n<li>Best Practices in Interdisciplinary Global Health Programming<\/li>\n<li>Academia: Reform to Increase Your Impact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghi.wisc.edu\/mugh6.0\/\">See more sessions online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ghi.wisc.edu\/mugh6.0\/\">Register by August 30<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"mailto:globalhealth@ghi.wisc.edu\">globalhealth@ghi.wisc.edu<\/a> with questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute is your host for the sixth annual Midwest Universities for Global Health conference. Join colleagues from more than 20 Midwestern academic institutions\u2014from Ohio to Iowa, Minnesota to Missouri\u2014to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12203,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/12201\/revisions\/12203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12201"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwtest.cancer.wisc.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=12201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}