Data-driven. Evidence-based. 
Community-engaged.

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Initiated in 2001, the Center is made up of faculty and staff from UW School of Medicine and Public Health, UW-Milwaukee and Advocate Aurora Research Institute. We are co-located and work together based on project needs and expertise.​

How We Work

Disparities in health continue to highlight the inequities that exist across our communities. We seek to broadly understand what contributes to the health of a community. We bring forward what science and academia have learned and work to appropriately adapt it with organizations working to address them. We aim to be responsive, intentional, ethical and flexible. We do this through a few key activities: 

Expert in designing custom surveys, managing complex datasets, and conducting quantitative and qualitative analyses to measure program, practice or policy impact.​

Trusted advisor to funders, grantees, and community partners, offering tailored guidance to align goals, improve data capacity, and foster cross-sector partnerships.

Skilled in start-to-finish execution of CHNAs and other needs assessments or landscape analysis , from initial stakeholder engagement and data gathering to final analysis and strategic reporting.
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Our Impact

With over 25 years of experience and hundreds of community and governmental partners, our staff and faculty can help connect and navigate among the many organizations in southeastern Wisconsin working to improve the health of our communities.

150+

Community and governmental partners 

35,000+

Community members touched through funded programming

1,000+

Participants in health workforce development related conferences and workshops

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Engagement

We believe that those who experience the barriers or challenges are best situated to guide solutions. Engaging people is the best way to ensure that research and solutions are built to succeed.

This has meant that we work with everyone. We engage:

• Faculty, investigators and community researchers
• Organizations-grassroots to governmental
• People-leaders, patients, families, residents, and students

We meet people where they are-in clinic, schools, organizations and at home.

We place great value on shared learning, capacity building and creating environments for personal and organizational growth.

We believe in this for our staff, partners and the community.

Faculty

Our team of researchers can support your research capacity or implement your program. With our long history, we can help connect you to organizations that could mutually benefit from your research interests and bridge successful partnerships. 

Faculty Engagement

Organizations

Funders

Our team has worked with over 150+ organizations all over the state of Wisconsin. We can support your organization or coalition in their strategic planning, program design, grant writing, partnership development, evaluation planning and implementation and share insights from our 25 years of experience working in public and population health. 

Organization Engagement

With over 25 years of experience working with government and community based organizations, we understand the importance of matching the program, practice or policy to the funds available and the capacity of the effort. We are responsive and meet organizations capacity to measure and evaluate your investment. We are always happy to be thought partners and bridge relationships.

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