UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Vijay Limaye, Adjunct Professor, was featured this weekend on CBS Sunday Morning discussing how wildfire smoke affects our health and daily life. Watch his interview here.
Congratulations to our 2023 Graduating Class. We wish you luck in your future endeavors. Masters Graduates: Carol Creager, Lauren Aquino Kochanowski, and Aly Pfaff Doctoral Graduates: Marina Jenkins and Kenneth Nieser
Tiffany Green and Ajay Sethi were interviewed for an article for the Wisconsin Examiner about the ending of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration. Take a look: As COVID-19 emergency ends, changes will be far-reaching — and nearly invisible
Dr. Maureen Durkin quoted in a Daily Mail article about older (55+) fathers and autism risk. Read the article here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12069211/Are-old-dads-selfish-Fathering-child-age-55-quadruples-risk-child-born-autism.html
Professor Amy Trentham-Dietz led the team that provided a commissioned report to the US Preventive Services Task Force as they recently updated their recommendations for screening mammography. The research team also includes Dr. Ronald Gangnon, Professor of Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, John Hampton of the Carbone Cancer Center, Dr. Oguz Alagoz …
Jason Fletcher and his team of researchers were able to reconceptualize an important demographic measure by analyzing a sample of nearly 1.5 million individuals from the newly available Mortality Disparities in American Communities (MDAC) data set, which links respondents in the 2008 American Community Survey (ACS) to official death records from the National Death Index. …
Professor Jason Fletcher is one of three UW-Madison Faculty selected for the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship this year, and the only scholar from the sociology discipline to be selected. More information on Dr. Fletcher’s award here.
Our very own, Natascha Merten, was featured on Dementia Matters Podcast: Studies Look at Generational Differences and Associations between Cognition, Sensory Changes and Blood Biomarkers. Listen on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/16GEjnxUBzjukRaOsfCI76
Congratulations to Population Health PhD candidate, Zoe Walts! Zoe’s abstract was competitively selected for oral presentation at the UW Carbone Cancer Center Research Retreat and was awarded 3rd place for her Flash Talk presentation.