UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
The Department of Population Health Sciences (PHS) welcomes Dr. Natascha Merten as an assistant professor. In addition to her primary appointment in PHS, Dr. Merten will have a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology. As a psychologist (MS) and epidemiologist (PhD) by training with research interests in human aging, …
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 …
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.
Edward Henry Vidruk (1939-2022). Ed was a native Canadian from Winnipeg who received his university education in the US, culminating in a PhD in neurophysiology in 1973 at UW–Madison, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute in San Francisco. Ed then served 25 years as an NIH funded, tenured professor in the …
Parvathy Pillai, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, was selected for a Dean’s Teaching Award from UW–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. These awards are selected by a committee of faculty that have previously been honored for their excellence in teaching, and, as such, are the medical school’s only peer-selected teaching award. Criteria for selection …
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 …
Report ties COVID-19 deaths to poverty, systemic policy failures In poorest counties, pandemic killed more people than in wealthiest ones . Read the full article here.
PHILIP M. FARRELL POPULATION HEALTH DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI LECTURE This annual Lecture Series is intended to recognize outstanding graduates of the Department of Population Health Sciences for their professional accomplishments and achievements in a field related to population health. The lecture is named after Dr. Philip M. Farrell, Professor of Pediatrics and Population Health Sciences and …
Ajay Sethi speaks about COVID-19, mask mandates, vaccinations and long COVID. How we should navigate the next phase of COVID. Watch the interview at length here.