About the Center
The Center for Urban Population Health, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a collaboration of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and Aurora Health Care, Inc. that advances population health research and education to improve the health or urban communities.
Join the Center as We Celebrate 10 Years of Partnerships
The Center has been fortunate to have ten years of creating deep and meaningful relationships with our community, academic and governmental partners. Our institutional partner support and collaborative efforts over the past decade have assisted in building capacity, synergistic connections and a fertile foundation for improved health in Milwaukee.
This Annual Report is the kick-off of our year-long celebration. We briefly profile a dozen projects here. Each month this year we will provide an in-depth look at one of these projects—sharing the work to date and future plans as well as demonstrating the benefits of 10 years of relationships and organizational memory.
Learn more about our annual report:
Campaign Aims to Reduce Infant Mortality Rates
The Milwaukee Health Department and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Zilber School of Public Health worked together to launch the ad, which is the fifth installment of the ongoing "Strong Baby" campaign.
View the press conference. Learn more.
Learn more about Catalog of Initiatives to Address Infant Mortality and Disparities in Birth Outcomes.
Cisler cited in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article on the Wisconsin's Health Ranking
Ron Cisler, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH) and Professor of Health Informatics and Administration and Public Health at UWM, was cited in a recent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. The article announces that Wisconsin rose to 13th in the United Health Foundation’s annual ranking of overall health. Cisler, though, points out that the ranking is not representative of Milwaukee and other parts of the state and explains why. Learn more.
Tracking Health Care Improvement
It is increasingly important for health care and public health interventions to specifically demonstrate their effectiveness in meeting their objectives and goals and globally to improve the health of communities. The Center has been contracted by the Milwaukee Health Care Partnership (MHCP) to develop and continually update a series of data reports that monitor health care coverage and utilization by the community. Learn more.
Learning about International Health
University of Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellow, Katarina Grande, and her mentor, Loren Galvão, MD, MPH, Associate Director of the Center, returned recently from a trip to Malawi, Africa. Dr. Galvão is Co-Principal Investigator on an NIH-funded project examining the relationship of HIV vulnerability to changes in economic environment and food security in rural Malawi. The Principal Investigator is Lance Weinhardt, PhD. Katarina's writes about her experiences in her blog.
Learn more.
Mapping Milwaukee's Infant Mortality Crisis
JS Online updates their interactive maps as part of their Empty Cradles | Confronting Our Infant Mortality Crisis, a year long series covering the death of children before their first birthday
Learn more.
Empty Cradles | Confronting Our Infant Mortality Crisis
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel begins a year long series covering the death of children before their first birthday. Learn more.
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