UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Healthy Metric went live today, releasing new brief reports focused on health disparities in Wisconsin. The first five reports from Healthy Metric provide an initial look at the impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on health and health disparities. The reports cover a wide range of issues impacting health outcomes and health care in Wisconsin …
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute (PHI) 2021 Annual Report is available here. The Annual Report illustrates the ways in which we are challenging the status quo by analyzing the policies and systems that have given advantages to some while creating obstacles to health and well-being for others. Acknowledging these patterns is a step toward …
Quasi-Experimental Designs for Learning Systems: A growing number of systems, including hospitals and insurance companies, aim to derive knowledge from internal data to improve their day-to-day operations. Amy Cochran (Mathematics and Population Health Sciences), Gabriel Zayas-Caban (Industrial and Systems Engineering) and Brian Patterson (Berbee Walsh Department of Emergency Medicine) will develop a causal inference framework for estimating the effects of interventions …
Jonathan Patz was quoted in two articles recently by the Washington Post and NPR. Both articles highlight the recent research study in GeoHealth, Nationwide and Regional PM2.5-related Air Quality Health Benefits from the Removal of Energy-Related Emissions in the United States.
To watch Tiffany Green’s full interview about economic and racial disparities linked to abortion, view it here. You can see this segment at timestamp 10:00-15:55.
Congratulations to Jonathan Patz named to the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorships. The award recognizes distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service. More information about the Vilas professorships and awards can be found here.
Wisconsin Public Health Association awarded Population Health Institute with the 2022 Organization Advancing Health Equity award. Congratulations to the entire team. See additional information here.
Tiffany Green was interviewed for a piece in The New Yorker about the economic impact of an abortion reversal. Read the full article here.
“Dr. Paul Moberg was an exceptional public health leader, who for more than four decades, led UW’s leading applied evaluation program, mentoring countless students and staff on the best ways to plan, implement, and evaluate programs—always with a goal of improving health and health equity outcomes. He truly personified the Wisconsin Idea, that our work …
Population Health Science PhD student, Olivia Pokoski, selected as Morse Society Scholar. The Morse Society and graduate student fellowships for training and research in Childhood Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities have been established through an endowment with the University of Wisconsin Foundation. The program is operated under the guidance of the Vice Chancellor for Research …