Health Care

Projects

• Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS)

  The Comprehensive Health Enhancement Support System (CHESS) is development of software to provide support to breast cancer patients, in both English a...

• Wisconsin HIV Training System

  The Wisconsin HIV Training System provides statewide coordination of training opportunities to increase the capacity of organizations and individuals...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Clinical Laboratory Network

  The Wisconsin Clinical Laboratory Network (WCLN) is a network of more than 130 hospital and clinic laboratories in Wisconsin, with the Wisconsin State...

• Neuroscience Outreach

  As part of the Neuroscience Training Program, UW-Madison Professor Lyn Turkstra does outreach with middle and high schools statewide to increase aware...

• Binaural Hearing and Cochlear Implants in Children and Adults

  UW-Madison Professor Ruth Litovsky's research focuses on how people are able to hear in complex, noisy environments, such as classrooms. The research...

• Molecular Biometry Cluster

  UW-Madison Professor Julie Mitchell was trained as a pure mathematician and presently does applied work in computational biology. Mitchell collaborate...

• UW Survey Center

  The UW-Madison Survey Center is hired by faculty and staff across the UW System and UW-Extension, as well as policy planners and researchers at state,...

• University of Wisconsin Speech and Hearing Clinic (UWSHC)

  Individuals from at least 15 Wisconsin counties ranging in age from infants through octogenarians have received speech, language and audiology service...

• Food Research Institute

  Since 1966 the Food Research Institute (FRI) has provided campus leadership in identifying and addressing food safety issues. The institute provides a...

• Annual Hearing, Speech, Language Screening for At-Risk Children

  The UW Speech and Hearing Clinic provides the hearing and middle ear screenings for over 1,000 children who attend Dane County Head Start (Reach Dane)...

• 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...

• Annual Colloquium on Aging

  The Annual Colloquium on Aging is held each fall in Madison, Wisconsin. It includes talks given by UW-Madison faculty and nationally known keynote spe...

• 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...

• Volunteer Madison Community Free Ophthalmology Clinic

  Providing eye care to underprivileged members of the community. The Madison Free Opthalmology Clinic is a monthly event, in partnership with LensCraf...

• Oculoplastic Surgery Service

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

• 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...

• The Center for Patient Partnerships

  The Center for Patient Partnerships is an interdisciplinary patient advocacy education center of the Schools of Law, Medicine and Public Health, Pharm...

• 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...

• 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...

• Unique Whey Protein for Individuals With PKU

  Individuals with a rare genetic condition known as phenylketonuria, or PKU, must severely limit their consumption of protein, drinking a foul-tasting...

• Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Wisconsin's Young Adult Population

  Many Americans don't eat the volume and variety of fruits and vegetables that they should, especially young adults. Eating more would lower this grou...

• 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...

• Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station

  The Zeeh Pharmaceutical Experiment Station, within the UW-Madison School of Pharmacy, is a center of expertise serving faculty researchers across the...

• 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...

• Medical Spanish 319: A Service Learning Course

  In this course, undergraduates gain the linguistic and cultural tools necessary to facilitate communication between Spanish and English speakers in th...

• 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...

• Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory

  The Tactile Communication and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory (TCNL) develops theory and application of neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to re...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• NIATx

  NIATx (pronounced NIGH-a-tex) is a learning collaborative within UW-Madison's Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies. NIATx promotes use of a s...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Twin Research Program

  The Wisconsin Twin Research program comprises multiple longitudinal studies utilizing a registry of twins born in Wisconsin. Primary research topics c...

• Increasing Awareness of the Effects of Alcohol on the Human Body

  Dr. Kevin Strang gives outreach lectures on the mechanisms of alcohol action on the human body, at the invitation of educators and administrators of s...

• 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...

• Pet Pals Pet Therapy Program

  The Pet Pals pet therapy program brings volunteer dogs and their owners to American Family Children's Hospital. The dogs provide emotional support fo...

• 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...

• 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...

• Computer and Information Security

  There is relatively little known about Computer and Information Security (CIS) breaches, the number of people and companies it affects and the costs a...

• 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...

• 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...

• ReaLens, LLC Collaboration with Design of Articial Eye Lenses

  Current artificial eye lenses aren’t designed to mimic natural lens function. Consequently, patients gain unobstructed vision, but require glasses to...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery Town Center

  The Town Center, located on the main floor of the Discovery building, welcomes visitors to Explore.Engage.Discover and fits with both the campus strat...

• 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...

• Sonderegger Research Center (SRC)

  Established in 1985 through the UW School of Pharmacy, the Sonderegger Research Center (SRC) conducts research that promotes health, improves healthca...

• 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-Madison Biotechnology Center (UWBC)

  The University of Wisconsin Biotechnology Center (UWBC) is Wisconsin's catalyst to advance biotechnology research, education and industry for the bene...

• 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...

• 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...

• The Role of Organizations and Interorganizational Relationships in Reducing Disparities in Infant Mortality

  The United States has one of the highest rates of infant mortality of any industrialized nation, and also demonstrates markedly persistent racial and...

• Morrie Waud Equine Center

  The Morrie Waud Equine Center is a non-profit organization affiliated with the UW that has a 13,000 square foot hospital designed specifically for the...

• Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER)

  The Wildlife Health Event Reporter (WHER) is a website that enables anyone with an Internet connection to report sightings of sick or dead wildlife. I...

• 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...

• The Glove Project

  The glove project, which began in 2008, was led by a team of UW-Madison engineers that scientifically measured hand pressure during cycling and studie...

• Global Health Initiative Health Incubator Series

  Vision: Equitable and sustainable health for people, animals and ecosystems—across Wisconsin and the world. Mission: We embrace a new global health et...

• REACH BC+: Retention and Enrollment to Achieve Children’s Health and Build Capacity

  This project will expand on the work of the program Covering Kids & Families, which informs Wisconsin residents about BadgerCare Plus (BC+), a state-f...

• Family-Focused Intervention for Latino Families Affected by Parental Depression

  When a parent has depression, the child shares the confusion and shame associated with the depression. This risk is highest when the family lives in p...

• Improving Family Interview of Empowering Families Milwaukee Home Visiting Program

  Katherine Magnuson is conducting research with the Milwaukee Department of Health to improve their Empowering Families Milwaukee (EFM) home visiting p...

• Health Impact Assessment of Climate Change in Wisconsin

  The overall goal of this research project is to develop predictive models of climate change-related precipitation variability that pose environmental...

• Madison Neighborhood Indicators

  The Madison Neighborhood Indicators project seeks to quantify the diverse and changing social conditions in Madison neighborhoods. The project staff h...

• The Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)®

  The Community Advisors on Research Design and Strategies (CARDS)® is a program of the Wisconsin Network for Research Support (WINRS), an innovative c...

• 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...

• UW Speech and Hearing Clinic Hearing Aid Recycling Program (HARP)

  The UWSHC Hearing Aid Recycling Program (HARP) provides hearing healthcare to individuals in Dane County who cannot otherwise afford it. HARP recipien...

• Language Assessment Support Services

  UW-Madison Outreach Specialist and Director of Services for Transcription and Consultation Services for SALT Software company, Karen Andriacchi, provi...

• Training for School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists

  UW-Madison Faculty Associate Trici Schraeder provides professional in-service training for school-based speech-language pathologists (SLPs). She has b...

• Language-Enriched Exercise Plus Stimulation (LEEPS): UW-Madison, Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, US Administration on Aging

  This 3-year statewide project, funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging, trained volunteers to provide language-enriched exercise plus socialization...

• Telehealth Partnership with Marshfield Clinic

  UW Clinical Professor Lyn Turkstra, along with the University of Wisconsin, continues to collaborate with Marshfield Clinic in its telehealth project....

• Fighting Autism

  Associate Dean of the College of Letters and Science Susan Ellis Weismer is investigating early language development and is seeking predictors of kind...

• Communication Development in Children with Cerebral Palsy

  Professor Katie Hustad’s research is focused on the study of changes in speech language, cognition and functional communication abilities among childr...

• Improving Language and Cognitive Outcomes in Bilingual Children

  UW Professor Margarita Kaushanskaya’s research aims to examine how input in two languages affects language and cognitive outcomes in children, both th...

• Text-to-Pictures iPad App Project

  Clinical Professor Jaime Murray-Branch is the lead collaborator on the “Text-to-Pictures” project where researchers are working to create an iPad appl...

• Drug courts test smart phone app to help addicted offenders

  UW researchers have created a new use for the smart phone: fighting chronic illnesses such as addiction. With Addiction-CHESS, users can access online...

• CARDS Community Advisors for Research Design and Strategies

  The University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing, the Lussier Community Education Center and the Goodman Community Center have been awarded a thr...

• For migrant workers, community cooperation builds on individual strengths

  UW Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning Alfonso Morales has completed a study that focuses on community development and cooperation. The...

• 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,...

• Bad River Global Health/Tribal Youth Program

  This program is a field course in the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Health (UCGH). It connects UW-Madison with people in programs on the Bad Riv...

• 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...

• Elder Tree

  Under a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research, David Gustafson and his associates are partnering with the Aging and Disability Reso...

• Aging with Intellectual Disability: Support for Wisconsin's Group Home Workers

  Based on research in Australia with caregivers of older adults with intellectual disability and in collaboration with the Wisconsin Dept. of Health Se...

• Wisconsin Collaborative Diabetes Quality Improvement Project

  The Wisconsin Collaborative Diabetes Quality Improvement Project is a partnership between the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program, the University...

• Board of Trustees of Sauk County Health Care Center

  As Chair of the Board of Trustees of Sauk County Health Care Center, Professor Mary Ellen Murray brings both financial expertise and quality of care e...

• Certificate in Criminal Justice

  The centerpiece of the Criminal Justice Certificate Program is an intensive field internship. These internships allow students to connect to the commu...

• Teacher Training Workshop: The Hmong in Contemporary and Historical Perspective (Appleton/Madison)

  In June 2013, UW-Madison's Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Center for East Asian Studies collaborated with the Appleton, Oshkosh, and Madison H...

• Wisconsin Idea Scholar Program (2012-13)

  From Feburary 3, 2012 to February 15, 2013, a group of 31 community leaders from all over the state convened at the University of Wisconsin-Madison an...

• 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...

• Walter and Martha Renk Laboratory of Food Safety

  The Walter and Martha Renk Laboratory addresses basic and applied research problems of concern to consumers, food animal producers and food processing...

• 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...

• Reducing the Impact of Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus on Wisconsin's Fisheries

  Viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) is an invasive pathogen that threatens Wisconsin’s fisheries. Despite the economic and ecological damage tha...

• Solving the Mysterious Case of "Mahal"

  "Mahal" was a Bornean orangutan born in Colorado and rejected by his mother. He was sent to the Milwaukee County Zoo for adoption by a surrogate mothe...

• 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...

• Paper on the Law of Intellectual Property Exhaustion

  Extending the Wisconsin idea of engaged scholarship globally, this project entailed preparing a comprehensive study of the rights to resell and reuse...

• 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...

• West Nile Virus in the Upper Midwest

  Since 2004, Dr. Tony Goldberg's lab has studied West Nile virus in the Upper Midwest. The focus is on a study site in the west Chicago suburbs. The la...

• Kibale EcoHealth Project

  Wisconsin was the location of an outbreak of Monkeypox virus in 2003, originating from rodents imported from Africa. Exotic pathogens remain a major c...

• 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...

• Increasing Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Wisconsin WIC Program

  This field course introduces UW-Madison students to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), a program that h...

• 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...

• The Morgridge Center for Public Service

  The mission of the Morgridge Center for Public Service is to "Connect campus with community through service, service learning and community-based rese...

• 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...

• Global Communicable Diseases in Humans: Detection, Monitoring and Control

  Global Communicable Diseases in Humans: Detection, Monitoring and Control is a field course that examines practices used by local Wisconsin laboratori...

• Assessment and Treatment of Latino Families

  Professor Carmen Valdez gives a lecture every year to community mental health, health, and educational professionals from all over the state as part o...

• Family Communication and Stress Workshops

  As part of an annual Community Health Fair in Madison, Professor Carmen Valdez gives workshops in the area of family communication and stress. The aud...

• 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...

• Post Graduate Psychiatric Nursing Capstone Certificate Program

  Sobering statistics about the rise in military suicides as soldiers transition back to families and communities drive home the need for a stronger com...

• 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...

• Slow Food UW History

  Since 2007, Dr. Zepeda has provided leadership and supervision to the Slow Food UW student organization. The organization promotes good clean fair foo...

• EMPOWER – Program for Depression in Adults with Intellectual Disability

  Through partnerships built via the Waisman Center, Dr. Hartley connected with stakeholders who have identified a lack of psychosocial interventions fo...

• Family Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorder - Family Newsletters

  The overarching goal of this study is to examine family outcomes in families of children with autism spectrum disorder. In this study, Dr. Hartley inv...

• 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...

• WPT Broadcast of His Holiness the Dalai Lama Visit

  The Center For Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center and Dr. Richard Davidson recently hosted His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other though...

• Compassion Project, Center For Investigating Healthy Minds

  Based on the findings of Dr. Richard Davidson (who has found a link between the practice of compassion and healthier brains) the Appleton Compassion P...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN)

  The Wisconsin Public Health Research Network (WPHRN) links public health practitioners and researchers to answer questions and disseminate discoveries...

• “Healthy Hmong Women (Poj Niam Hmoob Kev Noj Qab Haus Huv)”: Training Lay Health Educators to Address Hmong Cancer Health Disparities

  The goal of Healthy Hmong Women is to increase rates of breast and cervical cancer screening and reduce cancer morbidity and mortality among Milwaukee...

• 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....

• Accountable Care Communities

  Public Health Madison and Dane County was awarded a $50,000 planning grant in 2014 from the Wisconsin Partnership Program (WPP) at the UW-Madison Scho...

• 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...

• UW finds Ozaukee is healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Kewaunee second healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Portage third healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Taylor fourth healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Door fifth healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Calumet sixth healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds St. Croix seventh healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Washington eighth healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Pierce is ninth healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• UW finds Iowa is seventh healthiest county

  The UW-Madison Population Health Institute (UWPHI) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a study to determine the health of Wisconsin count...

• Vernon County Farm to School

  The Vernon County Farm to School Initiative works to improve southwest Wisconsin's health and environment by educating local students on healthy eatin...

• 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...

• Waisman Center

  The Waisman Center, located on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, is one of only 14 centers in the United States dedicated to the advancement...

• Transforming Marathon County

  Marathon County is participating in the Transform Wisconsin program to increase access and education for healthy lifestyles. Within Marathon County, c...

• Transforming Fond du Lac County

  Mobilizing a strong base of existing coalitions and true community partnerships, the Transforming Fond du Lac initiative will enable the county to ach...

• Transforming Through Collaboration

  Thirty community organizations are collaborating to make La Crosse a healthier county by improving access to local fruits and vegetables though county...

• Schools on the Go

  The coalition school districts of Monroe County Schools on the Go and its community partners are working together to make farm to school happen in Mon...

• Tobacco Free, Living Lean, Eating Green

  Manitowoc County is committed to increasing activity in after school youth activities. We will be working with farmers and schools to get healthy prod...

• Step It Up Rock County

  Where you live, work and play matters: 65.3 percent of Rock County residents are classified as overweight or obese. Innovative partnerships within Roc...

• Smoke Free Apartments = Clear Gains

  Quality and affordable housing is a concern of Monroe County residents and 72 percent of Wisconsin renters would prefer non-smoking buildings. Communi...

• Roadmap to a Healthier Community

  The Clark County Public Health Department is committed to work with Clark County communities and school districts to give residents access to healthy...

• Re:Th!nking What Healthy Looks Like

  Re:TH!NK is eager and ready to transform the Winnebago County community! Through effective collaboration, re:TH!NK is creating an environment that ena...

• Polk County WEALTH: Wellness, Environment and Action Linked To Health

  Polk County is excited to work with a variety of community partners to create a stronger, healthier and more active Polk County. With effective commun...

• Planting the Seed: Columbia County’s Food to School Journey

  Columbia County aims to reconnect schools with locally grown fresh food produced by neighboring farmers. Several organizations will champion this init...

• Places to Play

  The Places to Play Initiative will ignite a transformation towards a healthier future for people of all ages in Burnett County. Our safe parks, premie...

• P.L.A.Y. Dane (Policy Leaders for Active Youth)

  Through the partnership of 25 community agencies, the Childhood Obesity Prevention Collaborative mission is to develop and advance policies to improve...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• YumButter: Day Without Food Campaign

  Yumbutter is a young startup in the nut butters industry. They are a registered B Corp and have a Buy One Feed One aspect to their sales. The team wor...

• Wisconsin Mental Health Learning Collaborative

  NIATx, a division of the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies, is working with Wisconsin counties to reduce hospital readmissions for psychia...

• Community Building Facebook page

  This site was created by the students in Kinesiology 325 "Creating Community and Managing Behavior". It reflects the learning that our students do in...

• 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...

• Audiology Takes on Rural Noise at the Tomah Tractor Pull (and Beyond)

  UWSHC audiologists and Au.D. students travel to rural Wisconsin each summer for a unique goal: to prevent hearing loss at the Tomah Truck and Tractor...

• Crane USA Sustainability Assessment

  Since 2005, Crane has taken the lead in putting the “fun” into humidifiers, air purifiers, fans, space heating and night lights by following their man...

• 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...

• Wisconsin Science Festival

  The award-winning, annual Wisconsin Science Festival, based on the UW-Madison campus and featuring events in more than 30 locations around the state,...

• ECHO - Early Childhood Hearing Outreach

  The primary goal of the ECHO program is to provide quality hearing screenings for children ages 0-3 years, enrolled in Early Head Start programs in Da...

• Out of Hospital (OOH) Hearing Clinics

  Many Amish and Mennonite families in remote areas of Wisconsin do not have access to newborn hearing screenings and other hearing health care due to m...

• UWSHC Symposium on Hearing and Hearing Loss

  The annual UWSHC Symposium is a fun, educational event for the public about issues related to audiology and hearing. Symposium topics change each year...

• Engaging students in Wisconsin dementia friendly community efforts

  Since 2014, the Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) has supported students volunteering with and learning from Wisconsin community efforts...

• Health fairs for older adults

  The Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) developed training materials to build communication and advocacy skills to respectfully engage peop...

• Educational opportunities for nursing assistants and personal care workers

  The Center for Aging Research and Education (CARE) organizes one-day conferences for healthcare paraprofessionals – certified nurse assistants (CNAs),...

• Healthy farm-to-school meals: Empowering lunch ladies as change-agents

  The primary goal of this project is to cultivate lunch ladies as community-based leaders who are inspired and committed to making healthy, farm-to-sch...

• Rural Nursing Shortage

  A three-week Rural Community Health Immersion Clinical program is helping nursing students gain a new perspective on health care that can only be foun...

• 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...

• Reducing Dementia Stigma in Watertown

  By the year 2035, it is projected that 200,000 people in Wisconsin will be living with dementia. With two-thirds of these people living within communi...

• UW Researchers Discover a Faster and More Efficient Way to Diagnose Asthma

  Neutrophils, the most abundant kind of white blood cell in the body, can be used to quickly and accurately diagnose even the mildest cases of asthma....

• Badger Reach: Impactful Summer Internships in Milwaukee, Chicago and the Twin Cities

  This 3-year project designs and implements ‘impactful’ UW-Madison summer internships in Milwaukee, Chicago and the Twin Cities. Impactful internships...

• Improving Wellness Knowledge and Practices in Persons with Disabilities

  In this project, graduate students and faculty from the Dept. of Rehabilitation Psychology and Special Education at UW-Madison collaborated with Disab...

• 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...

• 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...

• Healthcare garden design

  Lily Mank, a UW grad and current post bachelors research intern with the Environmental Design Lab, has a degree in landscape architecture from the UW...

• 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...

• Family Outcomes in Autism Spectrum Disorders

  Sigan Hartley is the principal investigator of a study on family outcomes in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) through the Waisman Center. The study exa...

• Concussion in Adolescents

  Concussion can affect adolescents across various aspects of life. Traci Snedden, an Assistant Professor with the UW-Madison School of Nursing, focuses...

• UW Speech and Hearing Clinic

  UW-Madison opened the nation’s first speech clinic in 1914. Over 100 years later, the UW Speech and Hearing Clinic (UWSHC) is still up and running. Th...

• Caring Connections: Supporting families by improving residential care visits

  Over 53,000 older adults are residents of nursing home or long-term care facilities in Wisconsin. Caring Connections is a 2-hour workshop designed to...

• Covering Caregiving: How-to sheets to connect Wisconsin caregivers with support

  There are an estimated 1,000,000 caregivers in Wisconsin providing help and support to family members or friends with illnesses or disabilities. Altho...

• eSchoolCare

  For many students, the school nurse may be the only health care professional seen consistently. School nurses face challenges: too little time, few re...

• Healthy Aging in Rural Towns

  Healthy Aging in Rural Towns (HeART) is a collaborative project to help rural communities strengthen their support networks for their older adults and...

• Veterinary Services for International Crane Foundation

  This project sustains the Conservation Medicine Department of the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo (Sauk County). Our work in Conservation Me...