The University of Wisconsin-Madison Prevention Research Center was recently awarded funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct a Special Interest Project (SIP) focused on detecting early-stage ovarian cancer. The SIP is …
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Communities Confronting COVID-19 project to present at Wisconsin Public Health Association Conference
The Communities Confronting COVID-19 (C3) project is a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin Prevention Research Center and Southwestern Wisconsin Community Action Program, prompting vaccine confidence in rural communities. C3 will present some of their …
Request for Applications: UWPRC Small Grants Funding 2022-23
DEADLINE: June 10, 2022 The UW-Madison Prevention Research Center (UWPRC) is pleased to announce the third annual small grant competition to support research promoting maternal and child health and health equity. Grants are intended to …
UW Population Health Institute Releases the 2021 Wisconsin Population Health and Equity Report Card
Please the following message from the Director of the Population Health Institute, Dr. Sheri Johnson: The 2021 Wisconsin Population Health and Equity Report Card is Now Available. Dear colleagues and partners, I am proud …
Senderowicz’s Contraceptive Autonomy Work Influences New International Guidelines
Doctors Without Borders recently revised their contraceptive care guidelines, incorporating 2020 Small Grants recipient, Dr. Leigh Senderowicz‘s concept of contraceptive autonomy — the factors necessary for a person to decide what they want in relation …
2021 Small Grants recipients announced
We are excited to announce that the 2021 Small Grants have been awarded to Dr. Tuyen Huynh from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Dr. Janean Dilworth-Bart from the School of Human Ecology. Dr. …
New Tool for Babies Exposed to Opioids – UWPRC Small Grants Projects
UWPRC staff met with Dr. Ann Allen, one of our 2020 Small Grants Recipients, to talk more about her project, Pilot Testing an Evidence-based, Family-Centered Intervention for Opioid Exposed Newborns in Wisconsin’s Rural and Community …
Using RQA for population health surveillance: The Wisconsin Maternal Mortality Review Experience
Dr. Elizabeth Cox and team receive 5-year Cancer Grant
UWPRC Steering Committee member, Elizabeth Cox MD PhD and her PROKids team, in collaboration with the investigators at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and West Virginia University, have received a 5-year P01 grant from the …
Pregnancy accommodation laws – UWPRC Small Grants Projects
UWPRC staff recently met with Drs. Jessica Pac and Alejandra Ros Pilarz, the Principal Investigators of one of the 2020 Small Grant projects to learn more about their project, The Effects of State Pregnancy Accommodation …