Dr. Myerson’s comments were sought for her expertise on health equity regarding a recent report on the impact of the Affordable Care Act for previously uninsured diabetics. See the US News and World Report here …
Year: 2019
Sheri Johnson Appointed to Governor’s Climate Change Task Force
Sheri Johnson, PhD, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Director of the Population Health Institute, has been named to the newly-created Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change. The advisory group includes community and business …
Pat Remington Receives 2019 Folkert Belzer Award
Patrick Remington, MD, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), received the 2019 Folkert Belzer Award at the October 28, 2019 SMPH Fall …
PHS Welcomes New Assistant Professor, Tiffany Green
On November 15th, Dr. Tiffany Green joined the departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Population Health Sciences. Dr. Green, who accepted her position through the Reproductive Equity Cluster hire search, comes to us as an …
Patz Elected to National Academy of Medicine
Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in recognition of his pioneering research on the connections between climate change and health. Patz, the …
The 2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report
The 2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report report was developed by the The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ), in collaboration with the UW Health Innovation Program (HIP), directed by Maureen Smith. Including recent data from …
Renee Kramer, PHS PhD student, Receives Emerging Scholars Grant
Renee Kramer has been awarded a Society of Family Planning Research Fund 2019 Emerging Scholars Grant. The award will support the work for her dissertation, “Investigating the effect of Medicaid unbundling of long-acting reversible contraceptives …