Join the Global Human Ecology Interest Group and IRIS NRC for a lecture with Professor Lori DiPrete Brown of the UW School of Human Ecology on the potential impact of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Attendees will have a chance to learn about how SDGs can be harnessed by community’s to address issues ranging from poverty to climate change.
Lori DiPrete Brown focuses her scholarship on global health, particularly the health and well-being of women and children in highly vulnerable situations around the world. She teaches in the Department of Civil Society and Community Studies at the School of Human Ecology and is affiliated with the School of Medicine and Public Health. She is the Director for Global Health and Human Ecology and distinguished teaching faculty in the School of Human Ecology. She served as a GHI Associate Director from 2011-2022, where she was an architect of UW-Madison’s global health education programs and has developed and facilitated internships and service-learning programs in local settings and around the world. DiPrete Brown is the lead author and editor of Foundations for Global Health Practice, a text that articulates a broad vision of global health that goes beyond health care systems, to include topics such as human rights, global mental health, water and sanitation, food systems, climate change and urban health. She is also the founding Director of the campus-wide 4W Women and Well-being Initiative, which has catalyzed a range of innovative programs that address gender-based inequality and injustice.
The lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 11th, from 5:00-6:30pm. This is a free public event and all are welcome!
