UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
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 John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment with faculty appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department …
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 (LARC) on inpatient provision of LARC devises after childbirth in Iowa, Maryland and New York”. See the announcement here
Originally Posted on 2/8/2016 Through the Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study (EHLS) and the Beaver Dam Offspring Study (BOSS), Wisconsin residents are helping to identify risk factors for changes in hearing in an aging population. The fact that over 31 million Americans suffer from hearing loss is no surprise to EHLS and BOSS researchers. It …