UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Dr. Marietou Ouayogode served as a moderator on the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership’s event: “The Opportunities and Challenges of COVID-19 Tracking Apps as Pandemic Control Mechanisms.” The event was held April 23rd at 10:30 am. To watch the full talk, click here.
One year after the pandemic began, Drs. Tiffany Green and Ajay Sethi speak with A.J. Bayatpour on Capital City Sunday to reflect on the last year, lessons learned, and where things stand and are headed with COVID-19. The television show aired on March 14, 2021.
There’s growing concern that there’s a mismatch between who’s getting the COVID-19 vaccine and who’s actually being most affected by the pandemic. Early data shows that of the total number of vaccinated people, a disproportionately small number are Black and Hispanic. In this Badger Talks video, Tiffany Green, assistant professor in the Departments of Population …
On Monday, February 8th, in partnership with the UW-Madison Prevention Research Center, the Department of Population Health Sciences hosted Dr. Whitney Robinson, as PHS Monday Seminar speaker. Dr. Robinson’s talk, on her research into racial health disparities in Covid-19, garnered cross-campus interest, as seen with this article in the UW-Madison undergraduate-led newspaper, The Badger Herald. …
A paper, Population Changes in Seroprevalence among a Statewide Sample in the United States, authored by UW-Madison faculty, including Population Health Sciences faculty Kristen Malecki, Paul Peppard, Ajay Sethi, Lisa Cadmus Bertram, and Corinne Engelman is due to be released soon. This important Covid-19 Antibody surveillance study will provide essential information for public health officials …
The Health innovation Program, lead my Professor of Population Health Sciences, Maureen Smith, in partnership with UW Health, has released a COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization Toolkit. This toolkit, intended for healthcare administrators, policymakers, and researchers interested in equitably distributing vaccinations to healthcare personnel, can be used to improve the equity of the distribution of COVID-19 vaccinations …
The JAMA Network interviewed Ajay Sethi, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and Song Gao, Assistant Professor of Geography on the subject “Do Stay at Home Orders Reduce Covid-19 Infection Rates?” See the discussion here
GRE requirements for prospective students applying to the Department of Population Health Sciences’ graduate programs have changed. Please see Admissions Eligibility & Requirements for details.
Tiffany Green, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, was featured on scientificamerican.com, speaking on Implicit Bias Training. To read the article, see here.
Professor of Population Health Sciences and Director of the Global Health Institute, Jonathan Patz, discusses COVID-19, climate change and eviction in his article, A Triple Threat published by The Isthmus.