Megan Agnew
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
maagnew
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Green Space, Built Environment, Physical Activity, Mental Health Interest Statement: Prior to coming to UW-Madison, I received my Bachelor of…
Guadalupe Aguilera
Credentials: PhD
Position title: HDRS Post-doctoral Scholar
Email:
guadalupe.aguilera
Milda Aksamitauskas
Position title: Chief Administrative Officer PHS
Email:
aksamitauska
Phone: (608) 263-2262
Address:
Room 713 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Oguzhan Alagoz
Credentials: M.S. PhD
Position title: Professor, College of Engineering
Email:
alagoz
Phone: (608) 890-0399
Address:
3242 Mechanical Engineering Building
1513 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Mark Albanese
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences
Email:
malbanese
Mark Albanese, Ph.D., is the Director of Testing and Research for the National Conference of Bar Examiners and emeritus professor of population health and educational psychology at the Schools of Medicine and Public Health and…
Craig Albers
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Email:
craig.albers
Phone: (608) 262-4586
Address:
333 Educational Sciences
1025 West Johnson St
Madison, WI 53706
Bridget Asasira
Position title: Post Award Accountant
Email:
asasira
Phone: (608) 263-6717
Address:
Room 716 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Brad Astor
Credentials: PhD, MPH
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences, Professor of Nephrology
Email:
bcastor
Phone: (608) 262-0361
Address:
5149 Medical Foundation Centennial Building
1685 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
My research covers several different aspects of kidney disease and its interaction with cardiovascular disease. I have a special interest in biomarkers of kidney function and the associations of these biomarkers with clinical outcomes, including…
Howard Bailey
Credentials: MD
Position title: Associate Dean for Oncology, Director, UW Carbone Cancer Center, Professor, Department of Medicine
Email:
hhb
Phone: (608) 265-8090
Address:
K4/610a, 6164 Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Silvia Barcellos
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences and La Follette School of Public Affairs
Email:
barcellos
Phone: (608) 256-0516
Address:
Room 1007D WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Bruce Barrett
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Email:
bruce.barrett
Phone: (608) 263-2220
Address:
Room 3831
1100 Delaplaine Ct
Madison, WI 53715
Leonelo Bautista
Credentials: MD, MPH, DrPH
Position title: Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
lebautista
Phone: (608) 265-6176
Address:
Room 705 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
My main research interests include the distribution of cardiovascular diseases and risk factors in developing countries, the etiology of coronary heart disease, and the role of chronic mild inflammation and endothelial function on the development…
Jay Beiser
Position title: Financial Specialist Senior
Email:
jbeiser
Phone: 608 263 4888
Address:
610 Walnut Street
Room 707 WARF
Madison, WI 53726
Rosalind Bendix-Lewis
Position title: Department Chair's Assistant
Email:
rosalind.bendixlewis
Phone: 608-265-0516
Address:
610 Walnut Street
Room 707D WARF
Madison, WI 53726
Lawrence Berger
Credentials: MSW, PhD
Position title: Professor of Social Work, Director, Institute for Research on Poverty
Email:
lmberger
Phone: (608) 263-6332
Address:
311 School of Social Work Building
1350 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Patricia Binger
Position title: Accountant
Email:
binger2
Phone: 608-263-6717
Address:
610 Walnut Street
Room 707E WARF
Madison, WI 53726
Daniel Bolt
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Email:
dmbolt
Phone: (608) 262-4938
Address:
1082a Educational Sciences
1025 W Johnson St
Madison, WI 53706
Charles Brokopp
Credentials: MPH, DrPH
Position title: Professor Emeritus (CHS), Population Health Sciences
Email:
cbrokopp
Charles Brokopp is a Professor Emeritus (CHS) in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He received his BS degree in Zoology and Medical Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, and his MPH and DrPH degrees…
Karl Broman
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Email:
kbroman
Phone: (608) 262-4633
Address:
2126 Genetics-Biotech Center Bldg
425 Henry Mall
Madison, WI 53706
Brittany Brown
Position title: HR Business Partner
Email:
brittany.brown
Phone: (608) 265-2978
Marguerite Burns
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
meburns
Phone: (608) 265-5282
Address:
Room 730 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Marguerite Burns, PhD Dr. Marguerite Burns is an associate professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health, and faculty affiliate with the Institute for…
Elizabeth Burnside
Credentials: MD, MPH, MS
Position title: Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health, Deputy Director, Institute of Clinical Translational Science, Professor, Department of Radiology
Email:
eburnside
Phone: (608) 265-4099
Address:
Box 3252 Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Lisa Cadmus-Bertram
Credentials: PhD, MPhil, MS
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology
Email:
cadmusbertra
Phone: 608-265-5946
Address:
2035 Gymnasium-Natatorium
2000 Observatory Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Lisa is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and a member of the Cancer Prevention and Control program at the UW Carbone Cancer Center. She holds a joint Ph.D.…
(Jessica) Ying Cao
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
ycao245
Phone: (608) 263-4881
Address:
Room 732 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Dr. Jessica Cao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison’s School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Cao previously served as an Assistant Professor…
Cynthia Carlsson
Credentials: MD, MS
Position title: Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology
Email:
cmc
Phone: (608) 280-7000
Address:
D-4240 Veterans Administration Hosp
2500 Overlook Ter
Madison, WI 53705
Stephanie Chamberlin
Credentials: PhD, MPH, MIA
Position title: HDRS Post-doctoral Scholar
Email:
schamberlin2
Richard Chappell
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Department of Statistics
Email:
chappell
Phone: (608) 263-5572
Address:
Box 4675 Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Dandi Chen
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
dandi.chen
Year Started: 2020 What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Optimize health care workflows using electronic health records Interest Statement: I graduated with a master’s degree in Biomedical Data Science in May 2020 from…
Betty Chewning
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, School of Pharmacy
Email:
betty.chewning
Phone: (608) 263-4878
Address:
2523 Rennebohm Hall
777 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705
Chris Cho
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
cccho
Year Started: 2021 Hometown: Toronto, Canada What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? The application of statistical methods to physical activity and sedentary behavior. Interest Statement: I earned my BA degree in…
Jerome Choi
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
choi267
Year Started: 2020 Hometown: Minneapolis, Minnesota What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Exploring the relationships between social/environmental determinants and genetic modifications in complex diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease. Interest Statement: My research interests include…
Amy Cochran
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Mathematics
Email:
cochran4
Phone: (608) 262-0772
Address:
Room 685 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Amy Cochran received her PhD in Applied Math from Cornell University. She has previously held positions as an Assistant Scientist in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and as a Hildebrandt Research…
Devlin Cole
Credentials: (PGY2)
Devlin grew up in Cincinnati, OH, but has moved from coast to coast during her academic career. She studied Neuroscience at Bowdoin College in Maine, went to medical school at Case Western Reserve University in…
Mark Covaleski
Credentials: PhD, MBA
Position title: Professor, School of Business
Email:
mcovaleski
Phone: (608) 262-4239
Address:
4108 Grainger Hall
975 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Elizabeth Cox
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Email:
ecox
Address:
Box 4108 Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Richard Crawford
Credentials: MD (PGY3)
Rich grew up in Northern California and majored in biomedical engineering with a dash of finance and economics at UC Berkeley. Upon graduating, he worked two years at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center developing…
Chris Crnich
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
cjc
Phone: (608) 263-1545
Address:
Infectious Disease Faculty
Veterans Administration Hosp
2500 Overlook Ter
Madison, Wi 53705-2254
Karen Cruickshanks
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emerita Population Health Sciences and Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
Email:
kjcruick
Dr. Cruickshanks completed her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health in 1987 and has been a faculty member at UW-Madison since 1990. Her research program is studying the…
Jerome Dempsey
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences, Director, John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine
Email:
jdempsey
Jerry is a native Canadian from London, Ontario, educated at the Universities of Western Ontario, Alberta and Wisconsin–the latter under the mentorship of Dr. John Rankin, MD. He is the Director of the John Rankin…
Diandra Denier
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Post-doctoral Fellow, Engelman Lab
Email:
ddenier
Dorte Doepfer
Credentials: DVM
Position title: Associate Professor, School of Veterinary Medicine
Email:
dopferd
Phone: (608) 263-1186
Address:
2027 Veterinary Medicine Building
2015 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
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Maureen Durkin
Credentials: PhD, DrPH
Position title: Department Chair PHS; Professor of Population Health Sciences and Pediatrics, Waisman Center Investigator
Email:
mdurkin
Phone: (608) 263-7507
Address:
Room 717 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Maureen Durkin received her undergraduate degree and PhD in Anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her MPH and DrPH degrees in Epidemiology from Columbia University. Her research interests include the epidemiology, prevention, antecedents, and…
Felix Elwert
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Sociology
Email:
felwert
Phone: (608) 262-9510
Address:
4426 Sewell Social Sciences
Corinne Engelman
Credentials: MSPH, PhD
Position title: Vice Chair, Professor of Population Health Sciences, Director of Graduate Programs
Email:
cengelman
Phone: (608) 265-5491
Address:
Room 1007a WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Lab Page The Engelman Lab Dr. Engelman earned her MS in Public Health (2002) and PhD in Epidemiology (2006) from the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and has been a faculty member in Population…
Michael Fiore
Credentials: MD, MPH , MBA
Position title: Professor, Department of Medicine
Email:
mcf
Phone: (608) 262-8673
Address:
Room 200
1930 Monroe St
Madison, WI 53711
Jason Fletcher
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology
Email:
jfletcher
Phone: (608) 263-6010
Address:
La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin–Madison
307 Observatory Hill Office Building
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Jason Fletcher
Credentials: PhD, MS
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences and La Follette School of Public Affairs
Email:
jason.fletcher
Address:
4434 Sewell Social Sciences
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53705
Jason Fletcher is a Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Public Affairs with appointments in Applied Economics and Population Health Sciences. A specialist in health economics, economics of education, social genomics, and child and adolescent health…
Dennis Fryback
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences and Industrial & Systems Engineering
Email:
dfryback
Professor Fryback joined the faculty at UW in 1975 and retired from active teaching and mentoring in 2008. He specialized in methodological issues underpinning medical decision making, cost-effectiveness analysis of health care interventions, and health…
Quinn Fullenkamp
Position title: Graduate Programs Manager
Email:
quinn.fullenkamp
Phone: (608) 265-8108
Address:
Room 664 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Sarah Furnier
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Year Started: 2016 Research/interests: Epidemiology of developmental disabilities, perinatal epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology Hometown: Hope, MI Brief Interest Statement: I am particularly interested in better understanding the etiology of certain developmental disabilities and birth defects as well as…
Ronald Gangnon
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences, Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Email:
ronald
Phone: (608) 265-0688
Address:
Room 703 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Ronald Gangnon is Professor of Biostatistics with a joint appointment in the Department of Population Health Sciences and the Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics. He also has an affiliate appointment in the Department of…
James Gern
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Email:
gern
Phone: (608) 263-6201
Address:
Box 9988 Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Rachel Gicquelais
Credentials: PhD, MPH
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences & Department of Medicine Infectious Disease
Email:
gicquelais
Address:
WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Dr. Rachel Gicquelais is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She is a substance use epidemiologist and faculty member in the Department of Population Health Sciences and…
Lauren Giurini
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
lgiurini
Year Started: 2020 Hometown: Naperville, IL What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Neurological health outcomes, aging, minority populations, the effects of discrimination, and health disparities. Interest Statement: This past May, I graduated from Lake…
Marjory Givens
Credentials: PhD, MSPH
Position title: UW Population Health Institute Associate Director; Co-Director, County Health Rankings & Roadmaps
Email:
mgivens
Phone: (608) 265-3992
Address:
Room 777 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
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Tony Goldberg
Credentials: DVM
Position title: Professor, Department of Pathobiological Sciences
Email:
tgoldberg
Phone: (608) 890-2618
Address:
137 Animal Health & Biomed Sci Bld
1656 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Tiffany Green
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Obstetrics & Gynecology
Email:
tlgreen2
Phone: (608) 265-5242
Address:
Room 660 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
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Madelyne Greene
Credentials: PhD, RN
Position title: Assistant Professor of School of Nursing
Email:
mgreene8
Phone: 608-265-2382
PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing BSN, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing BA, Georgetown University; Women’s and Gender Studies Mady Greene holds a BSN and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, as well…
Eric Grodsky
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Sociology
Email:
grodsky
Phone: (608) 262-4896
Address:
8128 William H. Sewell Social Science Bldg
1180 Observatory Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Kellia Hansmann
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
kellia.hansmann
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Madison, WI What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Health services research, social determinants of health, primary care/health care utilization, health equity Interest Statement: I am interested in health services research…
Sigan Hartley
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Human Ecology
Email:
slhartley
Phone: (608) 265-5424
Address:
4101 Human Ecology Building
1300 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Daniel Hekman
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
djhekman
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Holland, MI What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? I have too many and broad interests in different topics to pick just one, so in my research I focus on…
Pamela Herd
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs
Email:
pherd
Phone: (608) 262-9451
Address:
3454 William H. Sewell Social Science Bldg
1180 Observatory Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Marina Jenkins
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
mcjenkins
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Maternal and child health epidemiology; substance use; adolescent health
Dana Johnson
Credentials: PhD
Email:
dmjohnson27
Address:
WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI
Holly Johnson
Position title: Administrative Assistant II
Email:
hjjohnson
Phone: (608) 263-2880
Address:
Room 710 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Sheri Johnson
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Director of the Population Health Institute, Professor of Population Health Sciences (CHS)
Email:
spjohnson8
Phone: (608) 265-4603
Address:
Room 777 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Sheri Johnson, Ph.D. has dedicated her 25+ year career to partnering with children, families, community organizations and systems to advance health and well-being. Awed by the resilience of individuals and communities, she is motivated to…
Chithra Kamath
Position title: Accountant II
Email:
chithra.kamath
Phone: (608) 263-6717
Address:
Room 667 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Marty Kanarek
Credentials: PhD, MPH
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
mkanarek
Phone: (608) 263-1626
Address:
Room 687 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Marty Kanarek is Professor of Population Health Sciences and Environmental Studies. He received his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley and his MPH in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota. He…
David Kaplan
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Email:
dkaplan
Phone: (608) 262-0836
Address:
1084 Educational Sciences
1025 W Johnson St
Madison, WI 53706
Richard Keller
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Email:
rckeller
Phone: (608) 262-2042
Address:
267 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Sarah Keller
Research/interests: Health services research, health disparities in dementia care Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI Interest Satement: I earned my bachelors degree in psychology and biology from Beloit College, which sparked my interest in Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias.…
Julie Kelley
Position title: Financial Specialist III
Email:
jkkelley2
Phone: (608) 263-4888
Address:
Room 716 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Jee-Seon Kim
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Educational Psychology
Email:
jeeseonkim
Phone: (608) 262-0741
Address:
1067 Educational Sciences
1025 W Johnson St
Madison, WI 53706
Kyungmann Kim
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Email:
kmkim
Phone: (608) 265-6380, (608) 263-1706
Address:
Room 256a WARF
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Amy Kind
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics
Email:
ajk
Address:
CLINICAL SCIENCE CENTER
600 HIGHLAND AVE
MADISON, WI 53792-0001
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David Kindig
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences, Emeritus Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences
Email:
dakindig
David A. Kindig is Emeritus Professor of Population Health Sciences and Emeritus Vice-Chancellor for Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Medicine and Public Health. He currently is Co-Chair of the Institute of…
Ksenia Kostelanetz
Credentials: MS Population Health
Position title: MS Population Health Sciences
Email:
kkostelanetz
Huichuan Lai
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Email:
hlai
Phone: (608) 262-9972
Address:
340e Nutritional Sciences
1415 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Vijay Limaye
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email:
vlimaye
Phone: (608) 262-5961
Address:
WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Dr. Vijay Limaye is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences and a Researcher in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment. He supports classroom…
Sara Lindberg
Credentials: PhD, MS
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences, Program Director, Evaluation Research Group, UW Population Health Institute
Email:
sara.lindberg
Phone: (608) 262-6008
Address:
Room 775 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Sara Lindberg is the Director of the Evaluation Research Group at the Population Health Institute and is an Assistant Professor (CHS) in the Department of Population Health Sciences. She has extensive experience in conducting and…
Kristin Litzelman
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Email:
litzelman
Phone: (608) 262-3314
Address:
Human Development & Family Studies
1300 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Tianyuan Lu
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Email:
tianyuan.lu
Address:
WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI
Dian Luo
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
dluo33
Year Started: 2020 Hometown: Sichuan Province What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? I am interested in applying mixed methods to understand and reduce health inequities affecting health care access and health outcomes, including…
Katherine Magnuson
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, School of Social Work
Email:
kmagnuson
Phone: (608) 263-4812
Address:
308 School of Social Work Building
1350 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Kristen Malecki
Credentials: PhD, MPH
Position title: Visiting Professor
Address:
WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Julie Mares
Credentials: MSPH, PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Email:
jmarespe
Phone: (608) 262-8044
Address:
1063 Warf Office Building
610 Walnut St
Madison, WI 53726
Jomol Mathew
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Chief of Biomedical Informatics, Director of the UW Clinical & Health Informatics Institute, Associate Professor of Department of Population Health Sciences
Email:
jomol.mathew
Phone: (608) 890-4101
Address:
4229 Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
Jomol Mathew, PhD, inaugural Chief of Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) for SMPH, is also Director of the UW Clinical & Health Informatics Institute (CHI2) housed within ICTR, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences.…
Lorraine Meisner
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emerita, Population Health Sciences
Email:
lmeisner
Lorraine Meisner received her PhD in Genetics from the University of Chicago in 1966. She has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 1968. Dr. Meisner’s research centers around identification of genetic…
Natascha Merten
Credentials: PhD, MS
Position title: Assistant Professor, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Medicine
Email:
natascha.merten
Phone: (608) 263-0277
Room 1040 WARF Office Building 610 Walnut Street Madison, WI 53726 Keywords: Sensory Aging, Cognitive Decline, Dementia, Healthy Brain Aging, Biomarkers Education University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany – MS in Psychology University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany –…
Gregg Mitman
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of History, Department of Medical History and Bioethics
Email:
gmitman
Phone: (608) 262-9140
Address:
1415 Medical Sciences Center
1300 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Denise Mohrbacher
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Research/interests: Infectious disease epidemiology Hometown: Sturtevant, Wisconsin
David Mott
Credentials: PhD, MS, RPh
Position title: Professor and Division Chair, School of Pharmacy
Email:
david.mott
Phone: (608) 265-9268
Address:
2509 Rennebohm Hall
777 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705
John Mullahy
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
jmullahy
Phone: (608) 265-5410
Address:
Room 734 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
John Mullahy is Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Population Health Sciences and Affiliate Professor at the La Follette School of Public Affairs and the Wisconsin School of Business. Professor Mullahy is also…
Marlon Mundt
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Population Health Sciences and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (DFMCH)
Email:
marlon.mundt
Sabrina Murphy
Credentials: MD (PGY2)
abrina grew up on the South Shore of Boston, Massachusetts. She attended McGill University in Montreal, Canada surviving frigid winters and receiving her bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences. Afterward, she attended Ross University School of…
Rebecca Myerson
Credentials: MPH, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
rmyerson
Phone: (608) 263-2082
Address:
Room 773 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Rebecca Myerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine and Public Health. Her research examines the impacts of public policies and information interventions…
Anand Narayan
Credentials: MD
Position title: Vice Chair of Equity, Visiting Associate Professor of Breast Imaging and Intervention, Department of Radiology
Email:
anarayan
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Lisa Naughton
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Geography
Email:
naughton
Phone: (608) 262-4846
Address:
355 Science Hall
550 N Park St
Madison, WI 53706
Erin Nelson Bakkum
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
enelson6
Year Started: 2021 Hometown: Spring Green, WI What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Disparities in hearing healthcare, hearing loss and cognitive decline Interest Statement: I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis…
Kenneth Nieser
Research/interests: Social determinants of health; health services research; methodology Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA
F. Javier Nieto
Credentials: MD, PhD, MPH
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences, Dean, College of Public Health and Human Sciences, Oregon State University
Email:
javier.nieto
Dr. Nieto completed his MD degree and a residency in Family and Community Medicine in Spain. His graduate training includes an MPH degree from University of Havana, Cuba, as well as a Master in Health…
Jenna Nobles
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Sociology
Email:
jnobles
Phone: (608) 262-4024
Address:
Department of Sociology
8128 Sewell Social Sciences
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
Margaret Nolan
Maggie Nolan Margaret Nolan, MD, MS, is a physician-scientist at UW-CTRI, the UW Department of Medicine, and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. She is also Assistant Director of the UW Preventive Medicine…
Dan Oh
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
doh9
Year Started: 2018 Hometown: North Wales, PA What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Infectious disease epidemiology, Zoonotic Diseases, Emerging and Novel Infectious Diseases
Thomas Oliver
Credentials: PhD, MHA
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
troliver
Phone: (608) 262-6731
Address:
Room 611a WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Thomas R. Oliver is Professor of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. There, he is a faculty affiliate of the La Follette School of Public…
Hannah Olson-Williams
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
holsonwillia
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Rochester, MN Interest Statement: In 2016 I graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BS in math. After undergrad I taught math as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Lesotho, Southern Africa from…
E. Burt Olson
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor Emeritus, Population Health Sciences
Email:
ebolson
Address:
Burt Olson is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Population Health Sciences. He received his PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1969. Burt joined the Department (previously the Department of Preventive Medicine) as an Assistant Professor in 1977. His research interests centered on the study of lung development, focusing on the transition to pulmonary viability and the development of neural control of breathing in neonatal life.
Professor Olson teaches and coordinates PHS 794: The Biological Basis of Population Health, which is a graduate level course offered each fall semester designed to provide familiarity with the mechanisms of the major diseases that a health professional involved in population health is likely to encounter.
Pilar Ossorio
Credentials: PhD, JD
Position title: Professor, Law School
Email:
pnossorio
Phone: (608) 263-4387
Address:
9103 Law Building
975 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
Mariétou Ouayogodé
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
marietou.ouayogode
Phone: (608) 265-8600
Address:
Room 769 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Dr. Ouayogodé is a health economist who joined the Department of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as Assistant Professor in 2019. She is interested…
Mari Palta
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emerita of Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, former Director of Graduate Programs and Vice-Chair of Population Health Sciences
Email:
mpalta
Mari Palta received her PhD in Biostatistics in 1977 followed by postdoctoral training in Epidemiology, both from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. She also holds a Master’s degree in Mathematics from the…
Jonathan Patz
Credentials: MD, MPH
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and the John P. Holton Endowed Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Email:
patz
Phone: (608) 262-4775
Address:
Room 258 Enzyme Institute
1710 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53726
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH, is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and the John P. Holton Endowed Chair of Health and the Environment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. From 2011-2022 he served as inaugural Director of UW-Madison’s…
Tiffany Pence
Position title: Chair's Executive Assistant
Email:
tdpence
Phone: (608) 265-0516
Address:
Room 719 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Paul Peppard
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
ppeppard
Phone: (608) 262-2680
Address:
Room 605 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Lab Page Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study Paul Peppard joined the faculty of the Department of Population Health Sciences in 2008. He holds MS degrees in Preventive Medicine and Statistics, and a PhD degree in Epidemiology…
Minh Tung Phung
Credentials: PhD, MPH
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
mphung2
Address:
WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI
Dr. Phung is a cancer epidemiologist. His research interests span across the cancer continuum, including cancer etiology, prevention, and survivorship. Dr. Phung’s research has focused on (1) establishing new population-based studies to study cancer risk…
Parvathy Pillai
Credentials: MD, MPH
Position title: Assistant Professor (CHS) of Population Health Sciences
Email:
ppillai
Phone: (608) 263-2870
Address:
Room 4262 Health Sciences Learning Center
750 Highland Avenue
Madison, WI 53705
Dr. Parvathy Pillai began her position in the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in June 2013. She received her MD from Northeastern Ohio University’s College of Medicine and her MPH from…
Collin Pitts
Credentials: MD (PGY2)
Collin grew up near Caledonia, Minnesota on the Mississippi River near La Crosse, Wisconsin. He attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota and graduated with B.S. in Mathematics and Chemistry. He attended University of Minnesota-Duluth…
Olivia Pokoski
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
opokoski
Year Started: 2020 Hometown: Wildwood, Missouri What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Maternal/Child Health and Health Disparities Interest Statement: I graduated from the University of Kentucky in 2019 with a Bachelor’s of Public Health…
Rachel Pomazal
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
rpomazal
Year Started: 2021 Hometown: Naperville, Illinois What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Environmental epidemiology, especially relating to climate change, and chronic diseases. Interest Statement: I completed my BS in Environmental Sciences with a…
James Raymo
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Department of Sociology
Email:
jraymo
Phone: (608) 262-2783
Address:
4446 Sewell Social Sciences
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
Patrick Remington
Credentials: MD, MPH, FACPM
Position title: Professor Emeritus, Preventive Medicine Residency Program, Department of Population Health Sciences, UW-Madison
Email:
plreming
Patrick Remington, MD, MPH, FACPM is Professor Emeritus at the School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). He earned his MD from UW and completed an Internal Medicine Internship at Virginia Mason…
Stephanie Robert
Credentials: MSW, PhD
Position title: Professor, School of Social Work
Email:
sarobert
Phone: (608) 263-6336
Address:
312 School Of Social Work Building
1350 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Yuetiva Robles (Deming)
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences
Email:
yrobles
The foundation of my research is analysis of genetic associations with quantitative traits, such as disease biomarkers and endophenotypes, to help further our understanding of complex disease. Currently my research integrates genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and…
Marjorie Rosenberg
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, School of Business
Email:
mrosenberg
Phone: (608) 262-1683
Address:
5297 Grainger Hall Of Bus Admin
975 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Eric Rubenstein
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences
Email:
erubenstein2
Dr. Rubenstein is an epidemiologist who studies life-course outcomes for the population with intellectual and developmental disabilities. During his fellowship, he will explore pregnancy risk factors and outcomes for women with intellectual and developmental disabilities…
Mary Ryan
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics and Medical Informatics
Email:
mary.ryan
Phone: 608-256-0516
Address:
Room 701 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Mary Ryan is an Assistant Professor with joint appointments in the departments of Population Health Sciences and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics; she joined the UW-Madison as a faculty member in 2023. Dr. Ryan received her…
Nasia Safdar
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
ns2
Phone: (608) 263-1545
Address:
Infectious Disease Faculty
UW Medical Foundation Centennial Building
1685 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705-2281
ns2@medicine.wisc.edu
(608) 263-1545
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar
Credentials: MD, MPH
Position title: Associate Professor (CHS) of Departments of Population Health Sciences and Family Medicine and Community Health
Email:
elizabeth.salisbury-afshar
Address:
1007c WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Dr. Salisbury-Afshar’s work focuses on enhancing the health and wellbeing of people who use substances. Board certified in family medicine, addiction medicine, and preventive medicine/general public health, her expertise lies at the convergence of these…
Lori Schaeffer
Position title: Grants & Finance Manager
Email:
llschaeffer
Phone: (608) 263-2674
Address:
Room 662 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Katherine Schaumberg
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Address:
Wisconsin Psychiatric Institute and Clinics
6001 Research Park Blvd
Maria Schletzbaum
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
schletzbaum
Year Started: 2020 Hometown: Overland Park, KS What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? epidemiology, autoimmune diseases, adolescents and young adults, minority health & health disparities, health services, immunoepidemiology, vaccination efficacy and uptake
Lauren Schmitz
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Email:
llschmitz
Phone: (608) 263-7398
Address:
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1211
Tracy Schroepfer
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, School of Social Work
Email:
tschroepfer
Phone: (608) 263-3837
Address:
302 School of Social Work Building
1350 University Ave
Madison, WI 53706
Amy Schultz
Credentials: PhD, MS
Position title: Scientist, Department of Population Health Sciences
Epidemiology Senior Data Scientist, SMPH Informatics and IT
Affiliate, Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Email:
aaschultz4
Phone: 815-307-4007
Address:
WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street (Rm# 652)
Madison, WI 53726
Dr. Schultz’s research interests are in understanding how one’s environment shapes their health across their lifespan. Her training is in environmental epidemiology. She uses over a decade of geographical information systems (GIS) expertise to examine…
Marin Schweizer
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, Population Health Sciences and Professor Division of Infectious Disease
Email:
mschweizer
Ajay Sethi
Credentials: PhD, MHS
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences, Faculty Director of the MPH Program
Email:
ajay.sethi
Phone: (608) 263-1756
Address:
Room 601 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Dr. Ajay Sethi’s research interests lie broadly in the study of infectious diseases. His studies aim to identify modifiable behavioral and structural factors associated with transmission and morbidity and mortality if infection is established. He…
Dolores Severtson
Credentials: PhD, RN
Position title: Faculty Associate, School of Nursing
Email:
djsevert
Phone: (608) 263-5311
Address:
Signe Skott Cooper Hall
701 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705
Stephen Small
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, School of Human Ecology
Email:
sasmall
Phone: (608) 263-5688
Address:
4113 Human Ecology Building
1300 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Everett Smith
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor Emeritus of Population Health Sciences
Email:
elsmith1
Maureen Smith
Credentials: MD, MPH, PhD
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences and Family Medicine
Email:
maureensmith
Phone: (608) 262-4802
Address:
Room 210-31
800 University Bay Drive
Madison, WI 53705
Dr. Smith is a Professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Departments of Population Health Sciences and Family Medicine & Community Health. Dr. Smith’s research has contributed substantially to improving…
Kate Sprecher
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Research Associate
Email:
kate.sprecher
Phone: (608) 263-2796
Address:
Department of Population Health Sciences
610 Walnut St
Madison WI 53726
Dr. Sprecher’s research focuses on the contribution of sleep and circadian rhythms to healthy aging. She is currently investigating how sleep in midlife relates to later life cognition and physical function, capitalizing on the Wisconsin…
Nicole St. Clair
Credentials: MS Population Health
Email:
nstclair
Year Started: 2019
James Stein
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor, Department of Medicine
Email:
jhs
Phone: (608) 265-4188
Address:
Box 3248 Clinical Science Center
600 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53792
Emma Svenson
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
svenson
Year Started: 2020 Hometown: Montreal, Quebec What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Broadly, my research interests include zoonotic infectious diseases, and understanding how pathogens interact and evolve with human and animal populations across complex…
Amy Trentham-Dietz
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor of Population Health Sciences, Associate Director of Population Science, Carbone Cancer Center
Email:
trentham
Phone: (608) 265-4175
Address:
Room 307 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Lab Page The Trentham-Dietz Lab As a cancer epidemiologist, Dr. Trentham-Dietz’s research is focused on breast cancer prevention, early detection and outcomes. She employs novel and traditional epidemiologic approaches in her studies complemented by methods…
Johnny Uelmen
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
uelmen
Address:
WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI
Research Summary: My research focuses on evaluating and forecasting zoonotic disease risk in humans and animals, particularly at the nexus of changing climates and environments. Under a One Health lens, I leverage a multidisciplinary approach…
Eva Vasiljevic
Credentials: PhD, MPA
Email:
vasiljevic
Eva’s research focuses on the biological (mainly genetic), environmental, and social determinants of health and their effects on cognitive function and dementia risk. Her work emphasizes the timing of these determinants and outcomes, ranging from…
Zoe Walts
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
zwalts
Year Started: 2021 Hometown: Naperville, IL Interest Statement: I completed my undergraduate education at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, IL where I earned my B.A. in Neuroscience with a minor in French. I first…
Shaneda Warren Andersen
Credentials: MS, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences
Email:
snandersen
Phone: (608) 265-8257
Address:
Room 1007b WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Lab Page The Warren Andersen Lab Dr. Warren Andersen is an Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences in the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. As a cancer epidemiologist, she…
Fiona Weeks
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
fweeks2
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Milwaukee, WI What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? I am interested in applying mixed methods to understand and reduce health inequities affecting maternal and child health populations, including both…
David Weimer
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor, La Follette School of Public Affairs
Email:
weimer
Phone: (608) 262-5713
Address:
201 Observatory Hill Office Bldg
1225 Observatory Dr
Madison, WI 53706
Lisa Werning
Position title: Associate Director for Research Administration
Email:
werning
Phone: (608) 262-4799
Address:
Room 714 WARF Office Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI 53726
Ryan Westergaard
Credentials: PhD, MD, MPH
Position title: Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Infectious Disease Division
Email:
rpw
Phone: 608-265-7927
Address:
UW Medical Foundation Centennial Building
5th Floor 1685 Highland Ave
Madison, WI 53705
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Barbara Wolfe
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emerita, Population Health Sciences
Email:
bwolfe
Barbara Wolfe is a Professor Emerita of Population Health Sciences and was formerly the Richard A. Easterlin Professor in the Departments of Population Health Sciences, Economics, and the La Follette School of Public Affairs, where…
Brittanni Wright
Credentials: PhD, MPH, MDiv
Email:
tdpence
Phone: 6082560516
Address:
WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, WI
Yuexuan Xu
Credentials: PhD Population Health
Email:
yuexuan.xu
Year Started: 2019 Hometown: Shanghai, China What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Social Genomics, Genetics and Society, Health Economics and Policy, Genetic Epidemiology, Applied Econometrics
Terry Young
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Emerita, Population Health Sciences
Email:
tbyoung
Terry Young, PhD, is an epidemiologist with a specialty in sleep disorders. Dr. Young’s research focus is on the natural history of sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Of particular interest: the role of sleep…
Zhongyu Yuan
Credentials: PhD Epidemiology
Email:
zyuan94
Year Started: 2021 Hometown: China What are your areas of interest within population health sciences? Chronic kidney disease
Lin Zhao
Credentials: (PGY2)
Lin grew up in Tianjin, China, moving to Wisconsin to attend Lawrence University on scholarship. There she majored in biology and philosophy and earned a minor in mathematics. After falling in love with the Midwest…
Megan Zuelsdorff
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor, School of Nursing
Email:
mlzuelsd
Phone: (608) 262-5951
Address:
3171 Signe Skott Cooper Hall
Megan Zuelsdorff received her BS in Neuroscience and her PhD in Population Health Sciences at the UW–Madison. Her research focuses on social-biological pathways that underlie cognitive and functional health disparities in later life. School of…