Jonathan Patz Travels to Dubai for UN Climate Conference
Jonathan Patz represents UW-PHS at UN Climate Conference this week. Watch on Channel 3000 Listen on WI-NPR
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Jonathan Patz represents UW-PHS at UN Climate Conference this week. Watch on Channel 3000 Listen on WI-NPR
Thank you to everyone who attended our PHS Fall Picnic on Friday (9/15). Attendance was up this year from students (both new and continuing), and it is always great to see faculty mingling with students/staff. We appreciate the effort it takes to plan and organize such an event and want to thank the Work Environment …
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Register now to virtually attend “Misinformation/Disinformation in Public Health” Thursday, Oct. 12, 5:30-7 p.m. with speaker Ajay Sethi, PhD, MHS: A professor of population health sciences and faculty director of the Master of Public Health Program, Sethi’s expertise lies at the intersection of infectious disease and public health misinformation. The event is part of the Hot …
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention of Substance Use Disorders through Socioecological Strategies ABSTRACT | Rapidly rising drug overdose rates in the United States during the past three decades underscore the critical need to prevent overdose deaths and reduce the development of opioid and related substance use disorders (SUDs). Traditional public health models of prevention emphasize the …
Dr. Amy Cochran, PhD (Co-I), and Dr. Paul Rathouz (PI) of University of Texas-Austin have received funding for a R21 grant titled, “Power and Sample Size for Generalized Linear Models.” The overarching goal of this project is to develop methods for estimating power, needed sample size, or minimally-detectable effect size in study designs involving generalized …
STUDY EXPLORES MIDLIFE FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BLOOD BIOMARKERS OF NEURODEGENERATION AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE https://www.med.wisc.edu/news-and-events/2023/august/midlife-factors-in-neurodegeneration-alzheimers/ The research team led by Natascha Merten, PhD, MS, assistant professor of population health sciences and medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, examined the extent that education, lifestyle factors and vascular and metabolic health in midlife were associated with …