The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH) and the Office of Minority Health (OMH) are seeking community-led strategies and tools to address health disparities in communities disproportionately impacted by environmental risks and hazards …
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2024 WPHA-WALHDAB Annual Public Health Conference: Call for Presentations
The Wisconsin Public Health Association (WPHA) and the Wisconsin Association of Local Health Departments and Boards (WALHDAB) are accepting abstracts for presentations at the 2024 WPHA-WALHDAB Annual Public Health Conference. The theme of the conference …
Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health
The Maternal & Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources & Services Administration is accepting applications for funding under the Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health (Healthy Start or HS) Program. The program …
DHS Launches Wisconsin Wayfinder: Children’s Resource Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 2, 2023 Wisconsin Department of Health Services Elizabeth Goodsitt, 608-266-1683 Jennifer Miller, 608-266-1683 DHS Launches Wisconsin Wayfinder: Children’s Resource Network Connecting Wisconsin families with special health care needs to essential support …
Seeking Participants with Fibromyalgia Who Have Experienced Pregnancy and Birth in the Last 12 Months
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Syphilis Cases Continue to Rise in Wisconsin-Affecting Babies, Teens, and Adults
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2023 Wisconsin Department of Health Services Elizabeth Goodsitt, 608-266-1683 Jennifer Miller, 608-266-1683 Syphilis Cases Continue to Rise in Wisconsin-Affecting Babies, Teens, and Adults DHS is calling on medical providers to …
Wisconsin Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Accepting Applications for Cohort 6 Wisconsin AHEC Scholars
The Wisconsin Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) is accepting applications from students who are two years aways from earning eligible degrees for Cohort 6 of the Wisconsin AHEC Scholars program. AHEC Scholars is a two-year …
Wisconsin’s Black infants have some of the country’s highest mortality rates. These solutions could help.
by Jane Houseal / Wisconsin Watch and Drake White-Bergey / Wisconsin Watch, Wisconsin Watch September 18, 2023 When her daughter was born weighing just 1 ½ pounds, Dr. Jasmine Zapata experienced firsthand the danger she …
FDA Approves First Vaccine for Pregnant Individuals to Prevent RSV in Infants
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Abrysvo (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine), the first vaccine approved for use in pregnant individuals to prevent lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) and severe LRTD caused by respiratory syncytial …
Funding Opportunity Announcement: Wisconsin LGBTQIA2S+ Youth Acceptance Project
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Division of Public Health is offering funding to local and tribal health agencies and other organizations through the Wisconsin’s Title V Maternal and Child Health grant to support projects …