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Parker Hoertz is awarded an APHA Student Assembly Award
Parker Hoerz, currently a second year Medical Studient, received an APHA Student Assembly award for the paper he presented at the October 2011 APHA conference. He did a Shapiro and PHS-funded internship at SHOW last summer working with Kristen Malecki and Javier Nieto on the association between the walkability score of the SHOW participants' households with their physical activity and cardiovascular risk.
See the award listed in The Nations Health
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Fri, 01/13/2012
Feeling Stressed? How You Think About it Could Harm Your Health - A new study by PHS Assistant Professor Whitney Witt
People who told researchers that they felt stressed and that they believed it was affecting their health were more likely to die prematurely in subsequent years.
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Thu, 01/05/2012
UW Study: Mothers of Tiny Babies Suffer, Too
Babies born at very low birth weights struggle in their early years and a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers suggests that their mothers do, too. The study was led by PHS Assistant Professor Whitney Witt. Other members of the team include PHS graduate students Kristin Litzelman, Lauren Wisk, and Nataliya Levin, and PHS Professor Mari Palta, as well as Hilary Spear and Beth McManus of the University of Colorado.
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Thu, 12/15/2011
Swapping Tail Pipes for Pedals: Small Changes Could Pay Huge
PHS Professor Jonathan Patz leads a study highlighting the "four way win."
See the internet story here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/02/biking-pollution-exercise-econo...
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Fri, 11/04/2011
PHS Professor Jonathan Patz Meets with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala
Jonathan Patz and other scientists met with the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, at the Tibetan leaader's residence-in-exile in Dharamsala, India.
See the pictures:
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Mon, 10/17/2011
Population Health Institute Awarded Grant: "Medical Homes for High-Risk Pregnant Women in Southeast Wisconsin: Do They Improve Birth Outcomes?"
The UW Population Health Institute has been awarded a grant from the UW Partnership Fund’s Collaborative Health Sciences Program to study a pilot program that enrolls high-risk pregnant women in Southeast Wisconsin into medical homes. The research team includes Dr.
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Thu, 09/15/2011
Assistant Professor David Vanness is featured in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Mathematical Modelling may Improve Health Treatments
Assistant Professor David Vanness's research was featured in the September 3, 2011, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
See the full article here: http://www.jsonline.com/business/129192103.html
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Tue, 09/06/2011
Cancer Rates Show it's Time for Global Asbestos Ban
Professor Marty Kanarek's article "Mesothelioma from Chrysotile Asbestos: Update" was published in the Annals of Epidemology, the official journal of the American College of Epidemiology.
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Wed, 08/24/2011
