Information about registration, speakers, and sessions will be available in early spring.
health equity
Black Maternal Health Week 2023 — Our Bodies Belong to Us: Restoring Black Autonomy and Joy
From the Black Mamas Matter Alliance (BMMA): Black Maternal Health Week takes place every year from April 11 –17 and was officially recognized by the White House on April 13th, 2021. The month of April is …
Networks, Regulation, and the Cessation of Professional Deviance in the Prescription Opioid Crisis
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty: Speaker: Victoria Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Human Resources, University of Wisconsin–Madison More than two million Americans are living with an opioid addiction. Because …
What Makes Systemic Discrimination ‘Systemic?’ Formal Models and Real-World Examples
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty: Speaker: David McMillon, Assistant Professor, Economics Department, Emory College Systemic Discrimination has become one of the most salient, misunderstood, and definitionally amorphous concepts, not only in …
Non-Partisan Strategies to Advance Health Policy
From the County Health Rankings & Roadmaps: For better or worse, health is political, according to Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. But there are strategies that avoid politics to …
Race and Discretionary Decision-Making in the Administration of SNAP
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty: Speaker: Jennifer R. Daniels, IRP National Poverty Fellow, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Welfare reform has resulted in widespread …
Social Cinema: Aftershock
The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with the Wisconsin Union Directorate Film Committee will be hosting a screening of the award-winning documentary Aftershock. Aftershock tells the story …
The County Line: An Analysis of Race and Place in the Child Support Enforcement System
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty: Speaker: Maretta McDonald, IRP National Poverty Fellow, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Extralegal factors like race and place both …
Black Fathers – Indispensable Partners in the Health and Well-Being of Black Families
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty: Speaker: Alvin Thomas, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison Black fathers have long been thought of as functioning, at best, …
DFMCH Grand Rounds Forum: Improving Birth Outcomes for Black Families by Connecting Care and Community to Advance Health Equity
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health: Presenters: Adrian Jones, UW Health Program Manager, Community Health Improvement Ariel Robbins, MPH, Program Director, Dane County Health Council Jawana Echols-Anderson, Community Health …