All of Us Wisconsin |

20 Jul Research on personalized medicine may help COVID-19 treatments

Posted at 15:58h in All of Us, COVID-19, Diversity, Health Equity, Madison, Milwaukee, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Research, UW-Madison, Wisconsin

A nationwide research project to advance personalized medicine could end up playing a role in the development of COVID-19 treatments, the project's leaders in Wisconsin say, and even address racial disparities in outcomes among coronavirus patients....

17 Jul All of Us Research Program at UW-Madison joins the fight against COVID-19

Posted at 10:01h in All of Us, COVID-19, Health, Precision Health, Precision Medicine, Research, UW-Madison

Those who enrolled in the All of Us Research Program at the University of Wisconsin‒Madison and UW Health, now have the potential to directly impact the national fight against the COVID-19 pandemic....

26 Jun UW-Madison Medical School Dean predicts ups and downs with COVID vaccines, cures

Posted at 14:17h in COVID-19, Research, UW-Madison

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....

26 Jun Gittens to serve as UW-Madison’s interim chief diversity officer

Posted at 10:21h in Diversity, UW-Madison

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....

24 Jun Webinar: Talking BarberShop – Improving Black Men’s Health

Posted at 16:40h in All of Us, Community, Community Engagement, Health Equity, Madison, UW-Madison

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....

10 Jun ‘All of Us’ Research Program: Ensuring that medical research benefits all of us (Part 2)

Posted at 13:17h in All of Us, Community, Community Engagement, COVID-19, Health, Health Equity, Madison, Precision Medicine, UW-Madison

Lucretia Sullivan-Wade, a community outreach specialist for UW-Madison's participation in the national All of Us Research Program, discusses the racial disparities that exist in health research and how the All of Us program is reaching out to communities of color in Madison and elsewhere to help ensure they have more of a voice in the future of healthcare....

09 Jun Maps show ZIP codes with highest percentage of people at risk of severe complications from COVID-19

Posted at 12:06h in COVID-19, Health Equity, Research, UW-Madison, Wisconsin

What ZIP codes throughout Wisconsin have the highest proportion of adults at high risk of severe complications from COVID-19? Where should public health departments allocate the most resources? What areas should be monitored the most closely? Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have pulled together information to help answer those questions....

09 Jun Baldwin grants awarded to eight projects

Posted at 11:32h in Community, Health, UW-Madison, Wisconsin

The environment, health care, democracy. These are just a few of the important subjects addressed by eight projects selected for grants from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment....

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