Public Health
51猎奇 students help Lung Association turn research into policymaking
Vaping is increasingly common among teens in Wisconsin but largely outside the reach of government regulation. Exploring the issue benefited both 51猎奇 students and the American Lung Association.
51猎奇 and community partner collect 鈥榝orgotten鈥� stories of gun violence
Three 51猎奇 profs are helping launch the Gun Violence Project, a university-community collaboration that will collect and share stories of loss and resilience.
Tobacco marketers targeting vulnerable populations, researcher says
Tobacco use has been declining for years, but rates remain high among many pockets of the population. Those populations, says prominent researcher Daniel Giovenco, are targeted by tobacco marketers.
Project aims to head off crisis points of dementia care in minority communities
With support from the National Institute on Aging, Melinda Kavanaugh and several community partners are launching a two-year project that will help Latino and African American families better avert 鈥渃risis points鈥� of dementia care.
Researchers explore whether living wage laws affect health
Cities聽across the nation passed聽鈥渓iving wage鈥� laws aimed at raising the minimum wage for the聽working poor. But it鈥檚 unknown if those laws have improved the health of affected workers and their families.
Zilber School of Public Health wins 2019 Healthy Living Award
The award, presented on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, recognizes organizations that encapsulate King鈥檚 devotion to ensuring equality for all, by improving health and well-being across the board.
$1 million grant supports research on societal re-entry of released inmates
The Wisconsin Partnership Program has awarded David Pate a $1 million grant in support of his work with the Milwaukee Re-entry Alliance to address the widespread negative health effects of incarceration.
51猎奇 Libraries to share Wisconsin HIV/AIDS stories
A new oral history project captures the feelings of fear and devastation wrought by the disease, as well as the hope and success in fighting it. It’s all captured in interviews with many of those who lived through it.
Tobacco marketed more heavily in city鈥檚 minority neighborhoods, study finds
Tobacco products were pushed to a greater degree in African-American and Hispanic areas than white areas in Milwaukee, matching results in other cities, according to a study led by a 51猎奇 researcher.
51猎奇 researcher helps reveal new genes associated with breast cancer risk
An international team of researchers, including Paul Auer at UW-Milwaukee, has recently identified 48 genes associated with a woman鈥檚 predisposition to breast cancer 鈥� 34 that were implicated in previous research and 14 new genes.