News Conference: DHS on CDC Wisconsin Childhood Vaccination Rates
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 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 […]
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-Designee Kirsten Johnson received bipartisan approval in a Senate Committee earlier this month. Prior to that, she led the Public Health Department in the city of Milwaukee during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She now leads the state as the Medicaid program unwinds from pandemic enrollment and faces other […]
Wisconsin Department of Health Services Secretary-Designee Kirsten Johnson received bipartisan approval in a Senate Committee earlier this month. Prior to that, she led the Public Health Department in the city of Milwaukee during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. She now leads the state as the Medicaid program unwinds from pandemic enrollment and faces other […]
On September 13, 2023, as federal regulatory approval has been granted for the 2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine, DHS is encouraging Wisconsinites to make a plan to protect against COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses. Dr. Ryan Westergaard, Chief Medical Officer of the DHS Bureau of Communicable Diseases, was available to answer questions about the vaccines.
On September 12, 2023, the Wisconsin State Assembly held a floor session on the following: Assembly Bill 386: lowering the individual income tax rates in the third bracket and increasing and expanding the retirement income subtraction Assembly Joint Resolution 66: Requiring a supermajority in each house of the legislature for passage of tax increase legislation […]
On August 23, 2023, Dr. Ryan Westergaard, Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health Services Bureau of Communicable Diseases, was available to answer questions on how to prevent COVID-19, influenza, and RSV, among other illnesses.