School of Medicine and Public Health

Projects

• Wisconsin Academy for Rural Medicine (WARM)

  WARM is a program that addresses the shortage of physicians in rural areas of the state, a serious problem that is expected to worsen each year. It is...

• Genetic Counseling Program

  The Genetic Counseling Program, comprising UW-Madison faculty and staff, trains professionals to work as members of a statewide healthcare team, provi...

• ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Program

  The ThinkFirst Injury Prevention Program instructs K-12 students regarding injury prevention in Dane County. In 2006, ThinkFirst Injury Prevention co...

• UW-Madison Stroke Team

  Professor Robert Dempsey acts as head of the UW-Madison Stroke Team, which provides a multi-departmental approach to the distribution causes, scientif...

• UW Specialty Ophthalmology Clinic in Mauston

  Along with Drs. Potter, Blodi, Liu, and Patterson , Dr. Gary Sterken examines a variety of eye patients in Mauston, treating their various conditions...

• Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network

  The Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network is a nationwide clinical research network which aims to develop better means of treating complicati...

• UW School of Medicine and Public Health, Ophthalmic Pathology Laboratory

  The eye pathology laboratory is a nationally recognized facility that receives eye pathology specimens from Gundersen, Marshfield and Aurora clinics a...

• Evidence-Based Health Policy Project

  The Evidence-Based Health Policy project, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Legislative Council and the La Follette School of Public Affairs, promot...

• Pediatric Ophthalmology Outreach Clinic

  UW-Madison associate professor Yasmin Bradfield, MD, provides specialized medical and surgical eye care to children in the Fox Valley area who have di...

• Radiation Oncology Outreach Clinics

  One of the the primary missions of the Department of Human Oncology is to extend its faculty's expertise in the areas of patient care, research, educa...

• Oculoplastic Surgery Service

  UW-Madison professor Mark Lucarelli helps teach ophthalmology residents who will go on to be ophthalmologists in Wisconsin and elsewhere. Additionall...

• County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

  The County Health Rankings annually rank communities on various measures of population health in the form of health outcomes (length and quality of li...

• Enhancing Eye Health Through Healthful Diets

  The Nutrition and Eye Health Program has conducted population studies in four large samples, some which include Wisconsin residents, that inform us of...

• MEDiC Free Clinics

  Established in 1990, MEDiC is a student-run program of the University of Wisconsin School of Madison and Public Health and is comprised of seven healt...

• Free Melanoma/Skin Cancer Screening

  Free skin cancer screening is done each spring, before people start enjoying the sunny weather. Screenings are held on the Capitol Square for the pub...

• SpectroCon LLC - Startup Company

  UW Associate Professor Nadine Connor, Associate Professor Gregory Hartig, and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Michael Conforti have founded a start-up c...

• Reaching Out to Wisconsin School Nurses

  In 2007, the Ebling Library of UW-Madison conducted a series of training workshops for school nurses. More than 60 school nurses from all corners of...

• Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute-Affiliated Dementia Diagnostic Clinic Network

  The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute (WAI) has been critical to the development of a network of 44 affiliated dementia diagnostic clinics. WAI provides...

• Latino Geriatric Center

  United Community Center in Milwaukee was awarded a $448,251 implementation grant from UW-Madison's Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) to reduce barri...

• Milwaukee Nurse-Family Partnership Program

  The City of Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) was awarded a three-year, $449,376 implementation grant in 2006 from UW-Madison's Wisconsin Partnership...

• Strong Rural Communities Initiative

  The Rural Health Development Council was awarded a $299,815 implementation grant in 2006 from UW-Madison's Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) to incr...

• Operation Quit Tobacco

  Operation Quit Tobacco provides free medication and coaching to military personnel on how to quit. Operation Quit Tobacco is available to all militar...

• Wisconsin Partnership Program

  The Wisconsin Partnership Program is an endowment within the UW School of Medicine and Public Health dedicated to creating lasting improvements in hea...

• Wisconsin Office of Rural Health (WI-ORH)

  The Wisconsin Office of Rural Health (WI-ORH), located within the UW's School of Medicine and Public Health, is a nonprofit organization dedicated to...

• Health Innovation Program

  The Health Innovation Program (HIP) looks to improve health care delivery and population health across the State of Wisconsin and the nation through c...

• New Physicians for Wisconsin Program (Wisconsin Office of Rural Health)

  New Physicians for Wisconsin is a 35-year old, non-profit physician recruitment program for the state of Wisconsin. This program serves to address the...

• Reducing Tobacco Use Among LGBT Populations in Wisconsin

  Diverse and Resilient, Inc. of Milwaukee, Dane, La Crosse and Chippewa Counties was awarded $475,000 for "Reducing Tobacco Use Among LGBT Populations...

• It Takes a Community to Help a Smoker

  The Salvation Army of Wisconsin & Upper Michigan was awarded $473,883 for "It Takes a Community to Help a Smoker" to reduce tobacco use through preven...

• Cellular Dynamics International

  Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a Madison-based biotechnology company, is the worlds largest producer of fully functional human cells derived f...

• Understanding Factors Influencing Calcium Absorption

  In partnership with the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical & Translational Research, this project hopes to understand the factors influencing calcium a...

• Medicaid Waiver and BadgerCare Program Evaluations

  The Medicaid Waiver and BadgerCare Program Evaluation consists of several components. These include: affordability and coverage at various income leve...

• Skin Cancer Screening

  The annual Skin Cancer Screening on the Square is a free service offered to the public, where UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health faculty...

• Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW)

  SHOW conducts annual statewide surveys of the health status and health-related needs of the population of Wisconsin. Each year SHOW gathers data on a...

• FASD Education and Outreach Projects

  Providing training, technical assistance and clinical outreach for the prevention, identification, and treatment of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (...

• Integrative Medicine Web-Based Educational Modules for Clinicians and Handouts for Patients

  A UW-Madison team has created educational modules for health care practitioners and made them available on the UW-Madison Department of Family Medicin...

• Strengthening Treatment Access and Retention - Quality Improvement (STAR-QI)

  The Wisconsin STAR-QI program (formerly known as STAR-SI) began in October 2006 as a three-year grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Servi...

• Development of a New Molecular Viral Diagnostic Test

  UW-Madison Pediatrics Professor James Gern worked with a Madison area biotechnology company to develop a rapid and comprehensive test for respiratory...

• Leadership Opportunities with Communities, the Underserved and Special populations (LOCUS)

  Leadership Opportunities with Communities, the Underserved and Special Populations (LOCUS) is an extracurricular, longitudinal service-learning progra...

• Clinical Genetics Outreach Services

  For over 30 years, Clinical Genetics Outreach Services have operated medical genetics clinics in partnership with local hospitals and clinics in vario...

• Time to Event Analysis of Drug Court Health Outcomes

  A drug court treatment program (DCTP) is provided in Dane County, and in over 1,800 other county jurisdictions in the United States, as an alternative...

• Mentorship Achievement Program

  Mentorship Achievement Program (MAP) is a mentoring program connecting UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health and UW School of Pharmacy stude...

• Medical students Offering Maternal Support (MOMS)

  The Medical students Offering Maternal Support (MOMS) Program ("Dando a Luz" for Spanish speaking patients) is an extracurricular medical student init...

• Allied United for Health

  Allied United for Health (AUH) organizes health outreach programming for the community-campus partnership between the UW-Madison School of Medicine an...

• Doctors Ought to Care

  Doctors Ought to Care (DOC) is dedicated to working with young people to promote healthy lifestyles. UW-Madison medical students are trained to presen...

• Department of Family Medicine YouTube Channel

  The UW-Madison Department of Family Medicine has established a YouTube Channel to promote health care related digital media to medical students, resid...

• Sharing in the Discovery (featuring the UW-Madison Stem Cell Learning Lab)

  Sharing in the Discovery invites citizens of Wisconsin to take a stake in health sciences research by providing experiences in communities and on camp...

• Local Public Health Partnership: City of Milwaukee Health Department

  Since 2004, the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) has provided faculty physicians on contract to the City of Milwaukee Health Dep...

• Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute

  The Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute (HWLI) is a continuing education and training resource supported jointly by the UW-Madison School of Medici...

• Evaluation Research Program

  The Evaluation Research Program in the UW-Madison Population Health Institute conducts program evaluations and evaluation research studies related to...

• Center for Women's Health Research

  The UW-Madison Center for Women's Health Research (CWHR) began as one of the federally designated a National Center of Excellence in Women's Health by...

• Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

  The Wisconsin AHEC System is part of a national initiative, begun in the 1970s, for improving the accessibility and quality of primary health care. Th...

• Co-op Care Health Insurance Program

  Co-op Care is a program funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Fund, with the Wisconsin Federation of Cooperatives serving as the community partner. The...

• Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

  The goal of the University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (UW-ICTR) is to create an environment that transforms resear...

• Reach Out and Read in MEDiC Free Clinics

  Reach Out and Read (ROR) is a national program that supports children’s language and literacy development, which is essential for young children to be...

• Wisconsin Public Psychiatry Project

  The Wisconsin Public Psychiatry Project was created to improve the care of people with serious mental illness by providing statewide training to menta...

• Research into Practice: Helping Wisconsin Clinicians to Help Their Patients Quit Smoking

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention Outreach Program provides on-site training and technical assistance to clinic...

• Community Service Programs - School of Medicine and Public Health

  The mission of UW-SMPH Office of Community Service Programs is to create, provide and support service and civic engagement opportunities for and by me...

• Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Forensic Toxicology (OWI and death investigations)

  The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Forensic Toxicology Section provides alcohol and drug testing to local and state law enforcement agencies in...

• The Zip Code Project

  The Zip Code project is a community-based research and service project funded by the Wisconsin Partnership Fund. The project seeks to increase the use...

• Training in Urban Medicine and Public Health (TRIUMPH)

  TRIUMPH recruits and prepares UW medical students to become community-engaged physician leaders to promote health equity within disadvantaged urban co...

• Global Health Institute

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Health Institute promotes equitable and sustainable global health education, research, service and interdis...

• Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging

  The Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging is a partnership of the SMPH and state and private and community health care partners, dedicated to providin...

• Glenn Stephens Elementary - PTO - Science Night

  From 2007 to 2012, I organized the Science Night at Glenn Stephens Elementary. Every year approximately 12 scientific groups from the UW (e.g.: Neuros...

• Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center — Regenerative Medicine Speakers

  The Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center sends speakers by request to a variety of venues.

• Rural and Urban Scholars in Community Health (RUSCH)

  RUSCH is a pipeline program designed to promote careers in rural and urban underserved health care in Wisconsin communities. Premedical students at UW...

• Wisconsin Network for Health Research (WiNHR)

  The mission of WiNHR is to foster collaborative, multidisciplinary research throughout Wisconsin by aligning WiNHR objectives with state and national...

• Outreach lectures on the physiological effects of alcohol

  Based on a lecture series developed for an interdisciplinary course (ILS 111: Alcohol; Behavior, Culture and Science), I have given invited lectures a...

• University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI)

  The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTRI) was founded in 1992 by Michael Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA and is recognize...

• UW Cardiovascular Research Center

  The UW Cardiovascular Research Center brings together over 130 researchers, physicians and educators to focus on ways to prevent and treat cardiac pro...

• UW Institute on Aging

  The Institute on Aging at UW-Madison focuses on addressing the problems of aging, which include diseases and impairments, challenges during later life...

• UW Health Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program

  The UW Health Osteoporosis Clinical Center and Research Program located in Madison, provides clinical evaluation and treatment of people with osteopor...

• Effectiveness of the CHESS eHealth Cancer Support Intervention in Population-based Care

  During the eHealth Cancer Support Intervention study, 600 women recently diagnosed with breast cancer will be recruited to participate in a research s...

• Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI) Milwaukee Project

  The Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute (WAI), with the support of the Helen Bader Foundation and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, developed a...

• Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM)

  The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM), located within the Waisman Center at UW-madison, is a research center dedicated to creating a world...

• Allied Area Food Pantry Outreach

  Medical students provide monthly health education information sessions at the mobile food pantry sponsored by Second Harvest for the Allied Drive neig...

• Allied Learning Center Science Outreach Program

  Medical students work twice every month with fourth and fifth graders in the Allied Learning Center afterschool program, providing supplemental educat...

• Allied Miler In Training Program

  Annually, beginning in 2009, medical students work with youth at the Allied Learning Center's summer program, preparing children to participate in a o...

• MEDiC Preventative Medicine Initiative

  MEDiC Free Clinics delivers a monthly educational, preventative medicine sessions at Porchlight's Brooks Street SRO Program housing facility. Each mo...

• MEDiC Free Dental Clinic

  MEDiC Free Clinics operates a free dental clinic serving residents of the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter. An average of 200 homeless individuals rec...

• American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA) Wisconsin Chapter

  UW Assistant Professor in Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences and Disorders (tenure home) and President of the Wisconsin Chapter of the American...

• Biomedical engineering student invention expo showcases solutions

  UW-Madison biomedical engineering sophomores worked with Dr. Christopher Green to design a better and more compact adaptor for children who have under...

• Radiation Measurements Inc.

  UW medical physicist John Cameron founded Radiation Measurements Inc., a spinoff company which creates quality control devices to test the accuracy of...

• Providing Cutting-Edge Fertility Care to Wisconsin Families in the Tri-State Region

  The fertility center in Onalaska provides cutting edge fertility care to many women and men in the region. The closest clinic that provides these serv...

• Marketing Proficiency Testing - Domestic and International

  Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Laboratory Improvement Division (LID) markets proficiency testing products to laboratories in Wisconsin,...

• Tomotherapy

  The Tomotherapy Project at the UW Department of Medical Physics designed a new way to treat cancer and to quality assure those treatments. It was the...

• Wisconsin Telestroke Network

  There are 15,000 patients who suffer a stroke each year but only a tiny fraction receive the only drug proven to help them: tPA. Patients don't receiv...

• BCERP: Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program

  This program, centered at UW-Madison, investigates the environmental and genetic causes of breast cancer and translates them to cancer prevention. Kno...

• Reach Out and Read Wisconsin

  Started after a local demonstration program which was funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment, Reach Out and Read Wisconsin is the state-wide e...

• St. Croix Tribal Health Center Head Start Physicals

  Started by Dr. Murray Katcher and continued by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, this annual two day trip to the St. Croix Band of Chippewa's Tribal Health Center...

• Ride the Drive Helmet Fitting Stations

  Stemming from the project leader's observations at early events that many children had poorly-fitting bicycle helmets, this event takes place at Madis...

• Wisconsin Express

  This week long immersion program, held annually in May, brings health professions students from all majors into Wisconsin communities to explore the c...

• Community Health Internship Program (CHIP) - Wisconsin AHEC

  Student interns are placed across the state for an eight week summer position in public health departments and local community organizations. In a typ...

• Tumor Ablation Program

  The tumor ablation program is a group of engineers working with world-leading clinicians to develop minimally invasive therapies for cancer. By provid...

• Wisconsin Telepsychiatry Project

  Since 1995 Dr. Ronald Diamond has hosted a bi-weekly teleconference that covers a wide variety of mental health topics, including updates in psychopha...

• Wisconsin Public Psychiatry Statewide Training Project

  Since 1995 Dr. Ronald Diamond has been providing mental health related training to public mental health clinicians, police, emergency room staff, judg...

• NOW (Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin) Coalition for Bipolar Disorder Initiative

  Dr. Ronald Diamond participated in developing a multi-state curriculum on bipolar disorder, and then provided on-site training to physicians and nurse...

• Wisconsin Infant Study ("WISC")

  There is evidence that children who grow up on dairy farms are healthier and have fewer allergies and respiratory illnesses. The hypothesis for the WI...

• Healthy Children, Strong Families (HCSF)

  Healthy Children, Strong Families (HCSF) is an ongoing project working with American Indian communities in Wisconsin and around the nation. Begun in 2...

• The Menominee Community Journey to Wellness

  Menominee County, which is made up of the Menominee Reservation, is the poorest Wisconsin county and currently ranks last in Wisconsin’s County Health...

• Active Early

  Active Early is working with 15 child care agencies from around the state to increase the levels of physical activity in early care and education sett...

• Gloves-On Course and Carotid Course

  University of Wisconsin Division of Vascular Surgery offers both a Gloves-On course (where attendees scrubbed into the operating room or catheterizati...

• Wisconsin ADRC Participant Appreciation Breakfast

  This event recognizes the many people who are participating in Alzheimer's research through the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. In addi...

• Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Memory Screenings

  More than 110,000 people in Wisconsin have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. African Americans are approximately two times more likely than Cau...

• Solomon Carter Fuller Memory Screening Day

  More than 110,000 people in Wisconsin have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. African Americans are approximately two times more likely than Cau...

• Wisconsin ADRC Community Lecture

  This free annual conference brings the latest findings in Alzheimer’s research to medical professionals and our community. The presentation features t...

• Addressing Postpartum Depression in Wisconsin Home Visiting Programs

  The Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) has identified postpartum depression as a major concern for women served by Home Visiting Prog...

• Medical Imaging Research Partnership

  Our Medical Physics and Radiology departments are among the highest producers of invention disclosures and successful patent applications at UW-Madiso...

• Machine Learning from Clinical and Genomic Data with Marshfield Clinic

  Marshfield Clinic was one of the first clinics in the world to have an electronic health record and biobank of DNA from consenting patients. From a 20...

• WebEx Journal Club

  Each month, the Division of Vascular Surgery hosts an outside speaker to present materials on vascular issues via WebEx which is accessible via comput...

• Giving Life to LiFE: Lifestyle and Functional Exercise Program to Reduce Falls in Wisconsin Communities

  The Lifestyle and Functional Exercise program (LiFE) is an innovative, six month, in-home fall prevention program that integrates exercises into daily...

• University of Wisconsin Electronic Health Record Public Health Information Exchange (UW e-Health PHINEX)

  The University of Wisconsin Electronic Health Record – Public Health Information Exchange (UW eHealth - PHINEX) links clinical care and public health...

• Bringing Healthy Aging to Scale

  The population of older adults in Wisconsin is expected to nearly double in size over the next 25 years. This “graying” of society affects rural areas...

• Wisconsin Surgical Coaching Program

  Of the approximately 1.2 million inpatient operations performed each year in Wisconsin, an estimated 36,000 to 43,000 patients will experience a serio...

• Native American Center for Health Professions (NACHP)

  The Native American Center for Health Profession's vision is to improve the health and wellness of American Indian people. The mission is to enhance t...

• TED-Ed: What are Stem Cells?

  This collaborative effort in stem cell education for teachers throughout the state — in fact, for the nation and world — was published on Sept. 10, 20...

• Advancing Health at UW-Madison: Exploring Solutions for Parkinson's Disease

  Spearheaded by Dr. Marina Emborg, M.D., Ph.D., at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center and School of Medicine and Public Health, and realize...

• Ethiopia Global Health Twinning Partnerships

  Since 2007, the UW has partnered with Addis Ababa University for the shared purpose of improving health systems, medical education, and community heal...

• Yoga's Effect on Fall Risk Factors in the Rural, Older Adult Population

  Yoga classes twice a week over 8 weeks reduced self-reported falls by 48% and improved balance measures by 23% in 38 older adults in rural Wisconsin....

• Medical student service projects AHEC/PCC

  Many communities across the state of Wisconsin host third-year students from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, for an 8-week rotation in th...

• Emergency Medical Responders for Hilbert and Potter

  Calumet Medical Center and Ambulance Service and Gold Star Ambulance Service collaborated to recruit and train six emergency medical responders (first...

• Alcohol Related Injury Screening and Education (ARISE)

  Edgerton Hospital partnered with several local agencies to develop a program to address the high rates of alcohol related injury, especially among you...

• Live LiFe Iron County

  In response to an adult obesity rate of 28%, the Iron County Health Department collaborated with the County Human Services Agency, University of Wisco...

• Jackson in Action Initiative

  A coalition of Jackson County agencies, Black River Memorial Hospital and the Black River Falls School District partnered to plan a program in respons...

• Live It! Real Life Nutrition for Teens

  Columbus Hospital collaborated with the UW Departments of Nutrition and Food Sciences to implement the Live It! program in Columbia County schools. Th...

• Move to Improve Families

  Memorial Health Center led a coalition that implemented a family-based, 12 week healthy lifestyle program to reduce the incidence of chronic disease i...

• Focus on Safety in Adams County

  Moundview Memorial Hospital and the Adams County Departments of Aging and Public Health worked with local police and EMS to implement a multifaceted c...

• Bayfield-Ashland Counties EMT Awareness Project

  The EMS Partnership, consisting of several area EMS services, Memorial Medical Center-Ashland and Northwest Wisconsin CEP, responded to a crisis of de...

• Club Scrub

  Grant Regional and Local EMS initiated a Club Scrub program. Local middle school students interested in health careers participated in weekly events a...

• Exercising with Parkinson Disease

  Physical therapists and fitness trainers from the Door County Medical Center and the local YMCA led classes for Parkinson's patients to maintain and/o...

• Iowa County Kids First

  The Iowa County for Kids First Team (Upland Hills Health, Dodgeville Elementary School and Iowa County Health Department) responded to the growing chi...

• Chronic Care Plus of Polk County

  ABC for Rural Health convened a coalition of the three critical access hospitals in Polk County (Amery Regional Medical Center, Osceola Medical Center...

• Rural Health Initiative Expansion Pilot

  Rural Health Initiative partnered with New London Medical Center and the Outagamie Health Department to expand their successful “kitchen table health...

• Nutrition, Environment, and Food Systems for Empowerment (NEFSE)-Ethiopia

  The Nutrition, Environment, and Food Systems for Empowerment (NEFSE)-Ethiopia program is a capacity-building program that aims to nurture sustainable...

• ProActive Jackson County

  Beginning in 2006, Jackson County community leaders came together to form the proACTIVE Wellness initiative, which spawned seven different wellness pr...

• ENERGY at Work in Sawyer County

  Energy at Work is an initiative started by the Hayward Area Memorial Hospital, Sawyer County Public Health Department, the medical community and sever...

• Fitness Improvement Teamwork (FIT) in Sauk County

  The Sauk Prairie Police and Universal Die and Stampings both completed employee health programs. Employees signed up for a Health Reimbursement Accoun...

• Innovation and Wellness Commons - Lindsay Heights

  The Commons is the next step in Walnut Way’s efforts to revitalize the Lindsay Heights neighborhood in Milwaukee's Central City. This collaborative co...

• Women of Worth (WOW): Family Centered Treatment Project

  This project will address the issues related to alcohol and drug abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders for women and their children in the Ra...

• Reducing Alcohol Abuse among LGBTQ Youth in Wisconsin

  This project will replicate a culturally-competent alcohol harm reduction and prevention model tailored for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and qu...

• Dementia Wellness Project for Underserved African American Elders

  This project, focused on underserved African-American elders, will improve the health and well-being of their families by expanding and extending the...

• Northwoods LEAN (Linking Education, Activity, and Nutrition): Pathways to Health

  Oneida County will approach its obesity issue on many different levels. Community leaders with the Oneida County Health Department will implement orga...

• ACTIVATE: Advocacy for Children

  With 40 percent of children in Wisconsin living below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Line, the use of advocacy training and techniques can help ch...

• Bilingual Healthy Choices Project

  The Bilingual Healthy Choices Project, or Elecciones Saludables, is a 12 week program for Milwaukee families to help them fight obesity with a "learni...

• Changing Views of Hunger: One Community at a Time

  This Eau Claire initiative builds upon community assessments and existing community-academic partnerships. The coalition will develop a strategic plan...

• Lifestyle Initiative for Fitness Empowerment Foundation Cross Plains Community Project

  The Lifestyle Initiative for Fitness Empowerment (LIFE) Foundation Cross Plains Community Project members unite in purpose with the Village of Cross P...

• Direct Assistance to Dads (DAD) Project

  Funded by a 3-year, $400,000 Wisconsin Partnership Program "Lifecourse Initiative for Healthy Families" community-academic partnership grant, the DAD...

• ORCHARDS - ORegon CHild Absenteeism due to Respiratory Disease Study

  The primary goal of this project is to create and evaluate an influenza surveillance system using cause-specific school absenteeism rates. The propose...

• Chorus for Alzheimer's Patients

  The Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Institute, part of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public health, is giving Milwaukee residents affected...

• GlovesOn Surgeon Training

  The best way for practicing surgeons to better their skills is through hands-on education, which is why the UW-Madison Department of Surgery began the...

• Department of Surgery Regional Services

  The Department of Surgery provides specialized clinical and surgical services to communities throughout the state and region through an expansive netw...

• Specialty Care Training in Speech Pathology

  Speech-language pathologists from around the state can partner with specialized speech-language pathologists in the UW Voice and Swallow Clinics for h...

• Surgery Clinical Research Experiences for High School Students

  The UW Department of Surgery is one of nine recipients of grant support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to support clinical research experie...

• The Use of Sensorized Breast Models for Clinical Skills Assessment

  Almost every time a doctor sees a patient, they touch them. But how is this sense of touch taught and ultimately assessed? What are doctors feeling fo...

• MEDiC–Center for Families Pediatric Clinic

  MEDiC, a UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) organization which operates seven student-run free clinics, provides healthcare to underserved...

• Building Capacity for Mosquito-borne Disease Surveillance in Santo Domingo, Ecuador

  This project will convey UW expertise and skills for trapping and identifying mosquito vectors that spread many important public health pathogens, inc...

• Covering Wisconsin (CWI)

  Covering Wisconsin (CWI), based at the UW School of Human Ecology and affiliated with UW-Extension, connects residents with appropriate insurance cove...

• Implementation of Bedside Notes

  To improve parent understanding, a growing number of hospitals, including American Family Children’s Hospital, use inpatient portals – web-based appli...

• Rapid Genetic Test to Improve Health Outcomes in Wisconsin Plain Newborns

  The goal of our project is to develop and offer a new approach to early diagnosis of genetic disorders in Amish and Old Order Mennonite, collectively...

• Tribal Clinic Rotations, Native American Center for Health Professions

  The Native American Center for Health Professions works directly with tribal communities and clinics to ensure partnerships and opportunities for stud...

• Examining the Efficacy of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Microinterventions for Distressed First-Generation College Students

  This study evaluated a mobile application-based intervention for distressed first-generation college students. The intervention was based upon Accepta...

• Developing a Dyslexia Toolkit for Interprofessional Care

  Members of faculty in the Department of Pediatrics and the Department of Neurology were awarded a 2022 Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment Seed Grant for...