UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
This August, PHS faculty member Dr. Natascha Merten, PhD, MS and Assistant Professor Dr. Freya Mowat, BVSc PhD, in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (School of Medicine and Public Health) have initiated a new large collaborative study. Dr. Mowat has successfully secured funding ($2,845,317 including indirect costs) for …
You can see the full story on PBS, “The Patient Revolution aims to expose healthcare flaws and pave the way for improvement.” PBS News Hour
Jason Fletcher and his team of researchers were able to reconceptualize an important demographic measure by analyzing a sample of nearly 1.5 million individuals from the newly available Mortality Disparities in American Communities (MDAC) data set, which links respondents in the 2008 American Community Survey (ACS) to official death records from the National Death Index. …
Tiffany Green speaks about abortion rights in Wisconsin on MSNBC. Watch the broadcast here.
Health Affairs journal published their list of 2022’s ten most-read articles and Rebecca Myerson’s article made #4 on the list. Personalized Telephone Outreach Increased Health Insurance Take-Up For Hard-To-Reach Populations, But Challenges Remain Rebecca Myerson and coauthors report that personalized telephone calls from service center representatives to discuss consumers’ options increased enrollment for lower-income households …
SMPH faculty members share their experiences related to COVID-19 and the ramifications of the pandemic on individuals, families, and communities in the latest issue of the Quarterly Magazine.
A pair of studies led by Rebecca Myerson, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of population health sciences, showed that federal funding for the ACA navigator program had a positive impact on enrollment and that the private health insurance industry did not pick up the slack when program funding was cut. When funding was reduced from 2017 …
In nine podcasts, David Kindig MD, PhD, a population health thought leader, is interviewed by Sanne Magnan MD, PhD about his 50 year population health scholarly and policy journey, including many stories, anecdotes and take-aways. Dr. Kindig is an Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public …
Jonathan Patz highlights a study on how infectious diseases are adversely affected by climate change and recent legislation around climate. Watch the interview with MSNBC here.