Partnering To Deliver Culturally Relevant Health Information During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A team of community influencers, including representatives from Wisconsin’s African American and Latinx communities and the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, are collaborating with researchers at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health to meet this important health and communications need.
Enhancing Dementia Detection
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Professors Art Walaszek, MD, and Cynthia Carlsson, MD, MS, are using a Wisconsin Partnership Program grant to spearhead a new project to improve the dementia care in the state. The project will help train future healthcare professionals to detect and treat dementia.
Helping Women Fight Symptoms From Pelvic Floor Disorders
Heidi Brown, MD, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is using Wisconsin Partnership Program grant to prevent or treat incontinence in older women through community-based workshops.
Expanding Research on PTSD Treatment Among Inmates
Michael Koenigs, PhD, professor of psychiatry at UW School of Medicine and Public Health, is leading a study that will offer group cognitive processing therapy (CPT) to Wisconsin inmates with PTSD.
Helping Emergency Departments Identify and Prepare for Future Waves of COVID-19
A team of collaborators from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, UW Health and the Marshfield Clinical Research Institute is using predictive analytics to develop and test an expanded surveillance system to identify future waves of the COVID-19.
Investigating the Link Between ‘COVID Toes’ and the Virus
Project leaders Lisa Arkin, MD, assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics, and Anne Marie Singh, MD, associate professor of pediatrics, are investigating how a critical immune response involved in COVID toes may protect against severe manifestations of COVID-19.
Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Across Wisconsin
Jennifer Weiss was awarded a research grant from the Wisconsin Partnership to increase colorectal cancer screening rates in the state by identifying and leveraging the strategies of high-performing clinics — clinics with screening rates above 80 percent.