UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
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 …
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. Kristen Malecki has been appointed as New Center Director for The Center for Urban Population Health. The Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH) is a multi-institutional collaboration between the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, and Advocate Aurora Research Institute. The center was initiated in 2001 …
Kristen Malecki, PhD, MPH received the 2021-2022 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 …
Dr. Natascha Merten was awarded the 2021 “Postdoc Excellence in Mentoring Award” from the UW–Madison Postdoctoral Association. “Merten earned her PhD in epidemiology from the University of Bonn in Germany in 2019. In the spring semester of 2017, she was a visiting scholar in the SMPH Department of Population Health Sciences. When she returned for …
Dr. Leonelo Bautista featured on “Esta Noche Mariasela” to discuss Sinovac and Sinopharm COVID Vaccine efficacy. Esta Noche Mariasela is a primetime national talk show from the Dominican Republic. Watch Dr. Bautista’s feature here
View the Population Health Science’s Health Innovation Program’s COVID-19 News Page to see all response efforts. Researchers at Health Innovation Program (HIP) have been working to improve health care using electronic health record data voluntarily provided by over 20 Wisconsin health systems through the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality(link is external) (WCHQ), have mobilized to determine …