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The Black Maternal and Child Health Alliance of Dane County (BMCHA) has been formally launched by The Dane County Health Council and the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness, with Tiffany Green, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, as Co-Chair. The alliance works to create a community-informed strategy and framework to improve …
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.
The Wisconsin State Journal interviewed Ajay Sethi, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, on his work relating to the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories in Public Health. See the article here.
The Addressing Systematic Racism Series is an initiative of the UW Population Health Institute, lead by Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, Sheri Johnson, in partnership with the Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families (LIHF). The first webinar of the series, Addressing Systematic Racism: From its Origins to its Impact Throughout Life, was held on June 19th. …
In an news feature on ABC Channel 27 WKOW, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, Ajay Sethi, explains why there was no initial spike in COVID-19 cases in Dane County three weeks after the start of protests in Madison. View the newscast and read the feature here.
Tiffany Green, Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Ajay Sethi, Associate Professor of Population Sciences, participated in the Juneteenth panels on resilience as part of Juneteenth celebrations organized by the Kujichagulia-Madison Center for Self Determination. See the panel discussion here.
Kristen Malecki and others authored a manuscript titled “Crisis Communication and Public Perception of COVID-19 Risk in the Era of Social Media”, recently accepted by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The article explores how the public perceive the risk and respond to messages regarding risk …