Black and Latino people have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in a widespread manner that spans the country, throughout hundreds of counties in urban, suburban and rural areas, and across all age groups....
Public Health Madison & Dane County is bringing COVID-19 testing to the community....
A new, online risk-assessment map allows people to check the state or the county where they live and see a COVID-19 risk rating of green, yellow, orange or red....
As the global pandemic caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 continues, researchers are working at unprecedented speed to produce new treatments and vaccines....
COVID-19 vaccine development presents an opportunity to break down barriers to the engagement of Black and Latinx individuals in clinical trials research. Ideally, vaccine trials should include participants from communities that have the highest risk of infection. In the case of COVID-19, those at-risk communities are disproportionately Black and Latinx....
As researchers in Wisconsin and across the globe try to find a cure and a vaccine for COVID-19, the head of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's medical school described obstacles that those efforts could encounter in a presentation on Wednesday....
Cheryl Gittens, an assistant vice provost in UW–Madison’s Division of Diversity, Equity and Educational Achievement, has been named interim leader of the university’s diversity and inclusion efforts....
In this webinar, hosted in partnership with the University of Wisconsin’s Collaborative Center for Health Equity (CCHE), local and national health equity leaders discuss successes and challenges of using the Barbershop Community Engagement Model to help improve the health of Black men....
Madison's Tenant Resource Center is now accepting applications from renters struggling to stay current with their landlords due to months of economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic....
Longevity experts have revealed several factors that could help increase our lives, and one of these elements is an advancement in technology, particularly personalized medicine....