On March 17, 2026, the Wisconsin Senate held a floor session on the following: SJR116: prohibiting the gov from using the partial veto to create or increase any tax or fee; SB176: income and franchise tax exemption for broadband expansion grants; SB179: applying the motor vehicle fuel tax; SB225: regulation of amusement rides; SB248: ignition interlock […]
On December 11, 2025, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services Council on Mental Health Legislative and Policy Committee met on the following: Mental Health Action Partnership (MHAP) updates Legislative updates Wisconsin Council on Mental Health (WCMH) updates Public comment Guest speaker on incarceration and mental health – Dr. Mike Koenigs, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UW-Madison […]
On December 8, 2025, the UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Nicholas Mark, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UW speaking on,“Structure, Events, and Temporality: A Sociological Approach to Continuity and Change in Health Disparities.”
On November 24, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Christian Koepfli, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. Koepfli spoke on Novel Tools to Diagnose, Understand, and Combat Malaria.
On November 17, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Alison Cohen PhD, MPH. Dr. Cohen discussed community-based participatory research and critical feminist epidemiology approaches and how they can be applied in different settings, drawing upon examples from her prior research.
On November 10, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Dr. Ryan Westergaard, Professor in the Department of Medicine (Division of Infectious Disease) and the Chief Medical Officer for Communicable Diseases at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. He presented on, “Applied Population Health Practice and Emerging Infectious Diseases: […]
On November 3, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Dr. Arun S. Karlamangla, Chief of the University of California, Los Angeles Division of Geriatrics, speaking about “Biological Mechanisms by which Social Factors May Undermine Health.”
On October 27, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Dr. Guillaume Butler-Laporte, Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at McGill University to speak on “Can Genetics End the Stalemate in Sepsis Treatment?”
On October 20, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features Amy Hagopian, Professor Emeritus, Health Systems and Population Health; Global Health at the University of Washington School of Public Health to speak about “My Adventures in War and Public Health.”
On October 6, 2025, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health Population Health Sciences Monday Seminar features George Davey Smith discussing, “Mendelian Randomization – what it was, what it is, and what it should become.”
Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul how healthcare is delivered. His Make America Healthy Again movement is focused on combating chronic illnesses, especially in children, and targets bad diets, chemical exposure and unnecessary medication as main culprits. What changes are being implemented in Wisconsin and what do healthcare leaders […]
