On October 27, 2025, the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Richland Center, WI on Savannah Wren v. Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee, Inc., Case Number 2024AP126. This is a review of a decision by the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, District I (headquartered in Milwaukee), which reversed a Milwaukee County Circuit Court order, Judge […]
As directed by Gov. Tony Evers’ Executive Order #275, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) has issued a statewide standing medical order that allows most Wisconsinites who want the COVID-19 vaccine to get it at pharmacies across the state without a prescription. On September 16, 2025, Dr. Ryan Westergaard, Chief Medical Officer for the […]
On June 11, 2025, the Assembly Committee on State Affairs held a public hearing on the following: Assembly Bill 286 Relating to: interest earned on coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds Assembly Joint Resolution 8 Relating to: restricting the governor’s partial veto authority to only rejecting entire bill sections of an appropriation bill that […]
On May 28, 2025, the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development held a public hearing on Senate Bill 280 Relating to: interest earned on coronavirus state and local fiscal recovery funds.
From tackling drug costs to boosting maternal health outcomes, Gov. Tony Evers is proposing a range of healthcare measures in his latest spending plan. At a Wisconsin Health News Newsmaker Event in Madison on April 8, 2025, Department of Health Services-designee Kirsten Johnson discussed the governor’s budget priorities, outline the impact of potential Medicaid cuts […]
On October 17, 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services held a news conference on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wisconsin childhood immunization data.
On September 16, 2024, the Volcker Alliance hosted a special briefing featuring Bill Glasgall of the Volcker Alliance, Susan Wachter of the Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR), and a panel of experts to discuss the year ahead for America’s states and municipalities. Fiscal 2025 will be an especially consequential one, with the Federal […]
On September 12, 2024, Wisconsin Department of Health Services hosted a news conference on vaccine effectiveness for flu, RSV and COVID-19 featuring Tom Haupt, Respiratory Disease Epidemiologist and Wisconsin’s Influenza Surveillance Coordinator, and Dr. Stephanie Schauer, Wisconsin Immunization Program Manager.
Gov. Tony Evers tapped Bill Hanna to run the state’s Medicaid program in January 2024. Hanna took the reins during the midst of a massive unwinding of a policy that kept folks on the Medicaid rolls during the pandemic, a process that shrunk program enrollment by hundreds of thousands of people. At a Wisconsin Health […]
On February 26, 2024, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences held a seminar featuring Alfredo Morabia, Editor and Chief of the American Journal of Public Health speaking on “Public Health Lessons of the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
October 30, 2023, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health – Department of Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar featured Dr. Ryan Westergaard speaking about Building the Academic Health Department: A Vision for Research, Teaching and Public Service. Dr. Westergaard is a faculty member of the Division of Infectious Disease within the Department of Medicine. In […]