by Jonathan Patz | Sep 23, 2020 | Videos
The first of three Wisconsin Academy Environmental Breakfast Series online presentations for fall 2020 features Dr. Jonathan Patz, John P. Holton chair of Health and the Environment and Director of the Global Health Institute at UW-Madison. Dr. Patz discusses how...
by Ron Seely | Nov 15, 2013 | Magazine Article
Infectious, deformed proteins called prions, known to cause chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, can be taken up by plants such as alfalfa, corn, and tomatoes, according to new research from the National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC) in Madison. The NWHC’s prion...
by Erin Aagesen | Sep 8, 2012 | Magazine Article
One Wisconsin nurse will never forget a patient she treated several years ago. When the patient woke up from surgery for a hysterectomy, she asked the nurse when she could start trying to get pregnant. The patient—who had no apparent literacy problems—had signed...
by Jonathan Patz | Sep 8, 2012 | Videos
In his Academy Evening talk Jonathan Patz, professor and Director of Global Environmental Health at UW–Madison and lead author for the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, outlines how global climate change—including warming temperatures and...
