UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Phung was awarded a pilot grant from the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Pilot Award competition at University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (UWCCC). The project, Frailty Trajectories and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Survival among Older Ovarian Cancer Patients, will start in the coming months. Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecologic cancer, with survival rates …
Read the editorial, “Mammography Screening by Age in the United States—Too Little and Too Much?” here.
Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS, professor of population health sciences, was elected a Distinguished Scholar Fellow in the inaugural class of the Public Health Academy of the National Academies of Practice (NAP): Membership in the NAP is an honor extended to those who have excelled in their profession and who are dedicated to advancing interprofessional education, scholarship, research, …
The recent issue of the Wisconsin Medical Journal features several PHS faculty with research related to Maternal and Child Health. Ron Gangnon, Tiffany L. Green, Maria Kamenetsky, Marina C. Jenkins, Christine Piette Durrance, Deborah B. Ehrenthal, Josh Hoffner and Patrick Remington. Read the issue here.
Rebecca Myerson’s research article in HEALTH AFFAIRS, Medicaid Expansion Increased Preconception Health Counseling, Folic Acid Intake, and Postpartum Contraception was cited in the January 2025 Economic Report of the President. Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisors
Climate and health small grants research award competition is open. This year we will make available $90,000 for pilot grants and will fund multiple grants of up to $20,000-40,000 in total costs. This pilot grant program comes by way of matching funds from the Department of Population Health Sciences, along with the NIH funds. Please …