UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
The Wisconsin Partnership Program grant provides opportunities for early-career faculty to initiate new, innovative educational or research pilot projects that, if successful can lead to further support from federal or other granting agencies. This year’s awards support projects that seek to advance knowledge and discovery across a wide range of topics including targeting blindness, improving …
PHS professor and Associate Director of Population Science, Carbone Cancer Center honored as Vilas Associate. The award recognizes new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance within UW.
Tiffany Green, PhD, Population Health Sciences co-authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that lays out a framework for how economic principles can educate public health policy to address racial inequities that exist in the public health and medical system featured here. Listen to the interview she conducted with Steven Morrissey, managing …
Dr. Ajay Sethi was featured in a panel titled “COVID-19 and a Deluge of Data,” as a part of the Crossroads of Ideas Lecture Series that took place on November 2nd. Please click here to learn more.
Dr. Ajay Sethi was recently featured in the University of Wisconsin news article, “300 interviews: Ajay Sethi’s pandemic pivot”, where he reflects on the past year and a half of providing COVID-19 expertise to the Madison community, Wisconsin, and beyond. Read the full article here.
Dr. Ajay Sethi was featured in the recent Wisconsin State Journal Article “COVID-19 booster shot plan raises hope and questions, UW experts say”. Dr. Sethi along with fellow UW colleagues Dr. Jim Conway and Dr. Nasia Safdar discuss the COVID-19 delta variant and the United States government’s plan to administer vaccine boosters in the coming …
The UW Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology will be hosting the “Women’s Health and Health Equity Research Lecture & Symposium” on October 14th, 2021 from 7-9:15 AM virtually. PHS Assistant Professor, Dr. Rebecca Myerson, will be presenting. Her talk will be titled “Medicaid Expansion Increased Preconception Health Counseling, Folic Acid Intake, And Postpartum Contraception”. For …
Dr. Ajay Sethi was recently interviewed by Wisconsin Public Radio for their report “The Delta Variant Is Surging. Here’s How Wisconsinites Can Help Stop Its Spread: Public Health Experts Stress Vaccinations, Masks, and Other Precautions as Highly Contagious Variant Leads To Another Spike in Cases”. To read the full article, click here.
UW News’ weekly COVID Questions column recently featured Dr. Ajay Sethi. Questions in the column the week of August 4th regarded the importance of masking in schools as well as how to keep oneself safe from the Delta variant. Read the full article here.