UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Patrick Remington, MD, MPH, Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), received the 2019 Folkert Belzer Award at the October 28, 2019 SMPH Fall Town Hall. Each year, the school presents the award for the lifetime achievements of one of its faculty members. Remington …
On November 15th, Dr. Tiffany Green joined the departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Population Health Sciences. Dr. Green, who accepted her position through the Reproductive Equity Cluster hire search, comes to us as an Assistant Professor from Virginia Commonwealth University in the Department of Health Behavior and Policy. Prior to this, she completed UW-Madison …
Jonathan Patz, M.D., MPH, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in recognition of his pioneering research on the connections between climate change and health. Patz, the John P. Holton Chair of Health and the Environment with faculty appointments in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department …
The 2019 Wisconsin Health Disparities Report report was developed by the The Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality (WCHQ), in collaboration with the UW Health Innovation Program (HIP), directed by Maureen Smith. Including recent data from 25 Wisconsin health systems for measures including vaccinations, screenings, disease risk factors and chronic disease by race/ethnicity and rural/urban residence, …
Renee Kramer has been awarded a Society of Family Planning Research Fund 2019 Emerging Scholars Grant. The award will support the work for her dissertation, “Investigating the effect of Medicaid unbundling of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) on inpatient provision of LARC devises after childbirth in Iowa, Maryland and New York”. See the announcement here
Originally Posted on 2/8/2016 Through the Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study (EHLS) and the Beaver Dam Offspring Study (BOSS), Wisconsin residents are helping to identify risk factors for changes in hearing in an aging population. The fact that over 31 million Americans suffer from hearing loss is no surprise to EHLS and BOSS researchers. It …