A nursing student speaking with a community member
Education
February 28, 2022

Wisconsin Partnership Program aims to bolster state’s health care workforce with tuition credit for nursing students

A tuition credit will strengthen Wisconsin’s health care workforce by incentivizing nursing students at UW System schools to help staff hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and health care facilities in the state during the recent COVID-19 surge and its aftermath.

Community
August 2, 2021

Latest COVID-19 Response Grants target mental health, ongoing pandemic health effects

The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has announced 14 awards totaling $2.7 million to community organizations and researchers to address the ongoing health consequences and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 19, 2021

New funding opportunity focuses on COVID-19 impact on adolescents’ social and emotional health

The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has announced an additional $1.6 million in COVID-19 Response grant funding to help address the toll the pandemic is taking on the social and emotional health of our state’s adolescents.

March 18, 2021

Wisconsin Partnership Program announces grant program for UW–Madison researchers addressing COVID-19 impacts

The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has announced an additional $1.2 million in COVID-19 Response grant funding through the COVID-19 Response Research and Education Grant Program.

October 1, 2020

Studying the feasibility of telehealth in nursing homes

Research
July 8, 2020

Coughing visualization compares effectiveness of various mask styles

Coupling function with fashion, cloth and home-sewn face masks are available in a variety of forms and fabrics. While experts underscore that wearing a mask is effective in helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19, not all masks — or the materials with which they’re made — contain virus particles equally.

May 1, 2020

Wisconsin Partnership Program announces $2.7 million in grants in response to COVID-19

The Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has announced 22 new awards totaling $2.7 million to researchers and community organizations across Wisconsin for their efforts to lessen the impact of COVID-19.

March 31, 2020

Wisconsin Partnership Program announces $1.5 million in COVID-19 grant funding

A new funding opportunity from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health will help researchers and community organizations respond to the immediate challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.