Pop Health Wins Team Trivia!
Representing Team Pop Health – Carol Creager, Trevor Roberts, Madeline Soss, Lisa Werning, Ron Gangnon & Tiffany Pence
UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Representing Team Pop Health – Carol Creager, Trevor Roberts, Madeline Soss, Lisa Werning, Ron Gangnon & Tiffany Pence
Jessica Calarco (University of Wisconsin–Madison) draws on five years of research to show how U.S. society and policy disproportionately burden women with caregiving responsibilities. With an expert panel, we’ll discuss Calarco’s key findings and their implications for reproductive health care policy and explore additional research on abortion, contraception, fertility, gender, and motherhood. For more information: …
Marguerite Burns, PhD, received the 2024-25 H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. This fellowship is named in honor of the late Trustee and President of the WARF Board Haakon Ingolf (H.I.) Romnes. According to the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Romnes’ career was characterized by “integrity, self-discipline and the ability to accomplish monumental tasks while …
Shingles Vaccination in Medicare Part D After Inflation Reduction Act Elimination of Cost Sharing
As part of the Women’s Healthcast series about the fourth trimester, we’ve talked about physical recovery, breastfeeding, birth control after pregnancy, postpartum mental health, and long-term health concerns after birth. For the final episode in this series, Dr. Tiffany Green talked about inequities in postpartum health and policies that impact peoples’ ability to recover …
Congratulations to the three PHS faculty members promoted to Associate Professor and Full Professor. Their promotions recognize their outstanding scholarly accomplishments and contributions to the department, university, and scholarly community. Promotion to Professor Marguerite Burns, PhD Promotion to Associate Professor Rebecca Myerson, MPH, PhD Shaneda Warren Andersen, MS, PhD
Masters Graduates: Noah Cook (Epidemiology); Victoria Foster (Population Health); Ksenia Kostelanetz (Population Health); Yolanda Martin (Population Health); Morgan Race (Epidemiology); Nicole St. Clair (Population Health); Andrew Wiese (Population Health). Doctoral Graduates: Megan Agnew (Population Health); Sarah Furnier (Epidemiology); Kellia Hansmann (Population Health); Hannah Olson Williams (Epidemiology); Fiona Weeks (Population Health); Yuexuan Xu (Population Health).
The Wisconsin Public Health Association (WPHA) will recognize our very own, Fiona Weeks, PhD, MSPH, with the Presidential Citation at the 2024 Public Health Awards Ceremony on May 15th, 2024.
Dr. Amy Trentham-Dietz led a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association that helped inform the updated final recommendation of the United States Preventive Services Task Force released today. Other UW–Madison members of the research team include Dr. Oguzhan Alagoz and Yifan Lu, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering; Dr. Ronald Gangnon, …
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research: Critical Research Support Carla Schubert, Researcher III, Department of Population Health Sciences Schubert, who joined the EpiSense Group in 1998, was key to the 2004 launch of the Beaver Dam Offspring Study, an ongoing longitudinal study with thousands of participants that aims to understand how the senses and the …