Center for Urban Population Health

July 25, 2008: Program Designed to Improve Care for Alcohol Abuse

The Wisconsin Initiative to Promote Healthy Lifestyles is a state-wide project designed to improve all aspects of alcohol dependence or abuse using the state's primary care clinics. The Center is coordinating the Milwaukee arm of the project.
July 5, 2008: Low HDL Cholesterol and Alzheimer's Disease

Scientist are now studying a possible link between low HDL cholesterol (the good one), already implicated in heart disease, and memory loss in middle-aged men and women. "This study begins to say that HDL may be the most important cholesterol and may be protective in the brain," said Mark Sager, director of the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute. To learn more about the Institute’s Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention in Milwaukee, click here
June 14, 2008: Reducing Infant Mortality in Racine

Listen to an interview (MP3) with members of the Racine Infant Mortality Coalition,including Teresa Johnson, PhD, RN. Dr. Johnson is working with the Coalition to reduce the unacceptably high infant mortality rate among African Americans in Racine under a grant from the Center Scientist Development Program.
June 13, 2008: PeriData.Net(R) to Serve as Conduit to WHA CheckPoint

The Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) announced recently that the board approved the addition of seven specific perinatal measures to the public reporting quality program, CheckPoint (www.wiCheckPoint.org). The program will use data collected in PeriData.Net® to report on the perinatal measures.
June 7, 2008: Regents Approve Milwaukee School of Public Health

"We need researchers who live and breathe the Milwaukee area. If we improve Milwaukee's health, we're going to improve the state's health," said Ron Cisler, in reaction to the approval by the University of Wisconsin Regents of a School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Cisler, Director of the Center for Urban Population Health, believes a School of Public Health in the heart of Milwaukee will produce important research that will reduce the serious health disparities that plague Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
June 1, 2008: Center Could Be Model for New School of Public Health

An editorial in the June 1, 2008 Milwaukee Journal Sentinel lauded the Center for Urban Population Health as an example of the type of collaborative initiative that would make the proposed University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Public Health a strong force for improving the health of Milwaukee and Wisconsin.
May 23, 2008: The Business of Cancer Research (PDF)

The Milwaukee Regional Cancer Care Network was featured in a recent Milwaukee Business Journal article about innovations in cancer research.
May 19, 2008: More than a matter of aging

A gap in understanding Alzheimer's disease is a growing problem and can lead to delays in diagnosis and treatment, which can lead to unnecessary setbacks for caregivers and individuals with the disease. The Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison along with many Milwaukee area organizations focusing on programming for the aging community are hosting a free forum called Essential Senior Services and Programs: What ever person needs to know to empower, serve and protect their aging needs. The forum will be held on Saturday, May 17th at 9:30 AM at the Clinton and Bernice Rose Senior Center, Milwaukee, WI. The Wisconsin Alzheimer's Association will be providing a workshop to address some of the misconceptions surrounding Alzheimer's disease. Click here to learn more about the event.
March 27, 2008: Young and in need

A study released this month by the Milwaukee Center for Independence, reported that nearly 25% of children in Milwaukee County have special health care needs, and the number of children in southeast Wisconsin who develop such lifetime disabilities increased 3.3% between 2000-'01 and 2003-'04. This report included 2004 data compiled by the Center for Urban Population Health in partnership with the Milwaukee Health Department (MHD) on children in the City of Milwaukee. This survey found an increased prevalence of special health care needs among poor and African American children. Recommendations from this study included improving and augmenting services for these children in the City. The CUPH and MHD are designing a new study to update this data and track changes.
December 21, 2007: Wisconsin Partnership Program Awards 21 Grants Totaling $5.3 Million

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health through the Wisconsin Partnership Program has announced twenty-one grants totaling $5.3 million. The annual Community-Academic Partnership Fund grant awards are designed to support Wisconsin-based projects that focus on health and prevention initiatives aimed at improving the health of Wisconsin citizens.
December 4, 2007: City receives poor marks in check-up

The City of Milwaukee was near the bottom in a recent health report card done by the Public Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Center Director Ron Cisler and others discuss the assessment in an article in the December 2 Marquette Tribune.
November 1, 2007: Health disparities in Milwaukee by socioeconomic status

This article in the Wisconsin Medical Journal reports on a project in which Milwaukee zip codes were stratified into three groups by socioeconomic status (lower, middle, upper) and health determinants and health outcomes were analyzed and compared across the groups. Serious health disparities were found across the different socioeconomic groups. Wisconsin Medical Journal, 106(7), 366-372.
October 1, 2007: September is National Infant Mortality Awareness Month (PDF)

UWM and the City of Milwaukee Health Department are joining forces this month to provide continued information related to the growing infant mortality issue in our community.
September 5, 2007: Effects of Post Partum Depression

Jennifer Runquist is an assistant professor in the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee School of Nursing. She's researching the effects of post-partum depression on women in Milwaukee, and working with Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton's Task Force on Women and Depression. She speaks with Jane Hampden of WUWM's Lake Effect.
August 22, 2007: Barb Lawrence: Cultivating better dementia care

The Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute is creating the Wisconsin Registry for Alzheimer's Prevention to study the adult children of parents with Alzheimer’s to learn more about the disease and its possible prevention.
June 21, 2007: Editorial: A reason for optimism

A commentary by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on the homicide commission's work.; Study takes close look at homicides: Agencies come together in effort to reduce killings

The Milwaukee Homicide Review Commission works to reduce homicide violence in the city. As part of this effort, the Center's Supervisor of IT performed an assessment of the needs of criminal justice system agencies around sharing data to prevent and control crime.
June 6, 2007: CHS Faculty Receives $100,000 Grant from Helen Bader Foundation

The Early Childhood Integrated Database System (ECIDS) will improve collection, storage, and sharing of information among providers of services to young children with disabilities. Center IT personnel will assist in the development of the system.
May 21, 2007: Budding Researcher Recognized for Work in Postpartum Depression

Highlights Center Scientist Jennifer Runquist's work in reducing postpartum depression.
May 4, 2007: Welcome support: Grant will fund local infant mortality research

Center Scientist Teresa Johnson receives a grant from the Center's Center Scientist Development Program to help the city of Racine analyze its data on fetal and infant deaths.
April 12, 2007: Three CHS Faculty Receive Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Funding Awards (PDF)

The Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Program of the Medical College of Wisconsin awards $450,000 for the Early Childhood Integrated Database System, which will improve collection, storage, and sharing of information among providers of services to young children with disabilities.
March 31, 2007: Eells Reveals the Mystery of the Healing Light (PDF)

Center Scientist Janis Eells is researching the use of near-infrared (NIR) light to heal blindness induced by methanol poisoning and other toxins.
June 1, 2006: First in UWM History: Strath Receives Prestigious NIH Grant (PDF)

Center Scientist Scott Strath received a five-year Mentored Research Scientist Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health. Ron Cisler, PhD, the Center's Director, will be his mentor under the grant.

In the Media

Program Designed to Improve Care for Alcohol Abuse

Low HDL Cholesterol and Alzheimer's Disease

Reducing Infant Mortality in Racine

PeriData.Net(R) to Serve as Conduit to WHA CheckPoint

Regents Approve Milwaukee School of Public Health

Center Could Be Model for New School of Public Health

The Business of Cancer Research (PDF)

More than a matter of aging

Young and in need

Wisconsin Partnership Program Awards 21 Grants Totaling $5.3 Million

City receives poor marks in check-up

Health disparities in Milwaukee by socioeconomic status

September is National Infant Mortality Awareness Month (PDF)

Effects of Post Partum Depression

Barb Lawrence: Cultivating better dementia care

Editorial: A reason for optimism

Study takes close look at homicides: Agencies come together in effort to reduce killings

CHS Faculty Receives $100,000 Grant from Helen Bader Foundation

Budding Researcher Recognized for Work in Postpartum Depression

Welcome support: Grant will fund local infant mortality research

Three CHS Faculty Receive Healthier Wisconsin Partnership Funding Awards (PDF)

Eells Reveals the Mystery of the Healing Light (PDF)

First in UWM History: Strath Receives Prestigious NIH Grant (PDF)

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