What’s in a Name: The Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship
As Program Director for the newly renamed Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship, I get a privileged view of the impressive service Fellows are providing to Wisconsin organizations and communities. Thanks to Kat, our Fellowship blogger, for creating this opportunity for current and past fellows, preceptors, faculty, staff and other partners to share a window onto important work in public health going on in Wisconsin and beyond, and to maintain their links to this network of colleagues and friends.
Here’s just a little taste of all the work that’s going on this year – by Fellow in alphabetical order:
Kristen Audet (placed in the Wisconsin Public Health Preparedness Program at the Division of Public Health and the Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative) is conducting research to address disparities in childhood immunization rates between rural and urban communities; Katarina (Kat) Grande (placed in the Milwaukee Health Department and the Center for Urban Population Health) is working with the Milwaukee Consortium for Hmong Health’s community health worker program to encourage breast and cervical cancer screening for Hmong women; Akbar Husain (placed in the Western Regional Office of the Division of Public Health in Eau Claire) is providing capacity building for community health improvement in communities in the western region; Emma Hynes (placed in the Maternal and Child Health Program at the Division of Public Health and the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health) is engaging community partners to improve health and reduce health disparities through the Wisconsin Healthiest Women Initiative; Rashonda Jones (placed at the Milwaukee Health Department and the United Way of Greater Milwaukee) will provide project leadership to United Way of Greater Milwaukee’s Healthy Births Initiative; Anneke Mohr (placed at the AIDS/HIV Program in the Division of Public Health and at the Great Lakes Inter-tribal Epidemiology Center in Lac du Flambeau) is developing a protocol to improve access to medication in cases of non-occupational exposure to HIV/AIDS; Kelli Stader (placed with the Southern Regional Office of the Division of Public Health) is coordinating a division-wide self-assessment process in the Division of Public Health to prepare for national public health accreditation; Paula Tran Inzeo (placed in the Division of Public Health and the Wisconsin Center for Health Equity) is working on a grant to build the capacity of local health departments to include health perspectives in decision-making processes (Health Impact Assessment) and is generally focused on projects related to health inequities, social determinants of health and public health policy; Katherine Vaughn-Jehring (placed with the Division of Public Health and the Allied Wellness Center) is working with a statewide team to implement Wisconsin’s state health plan, Healthiest Wisconsin 2020; Tyler Weber (placed with the Milwaukee Health Department and the Lindsay Heights Neighborhood Health Alliance) is working on increasing access to health resources for families in North Milwaukee neighborhoods through community collaborations.
How to use this blog
Welcome to the Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellowship Blog. The aims of this blog are to:
- Keep people with ties to the Fellowship connected to one another
- Showcase Fellow, Alumni, and Faculty research and projects
- Provide a venue for those interested in the Fellowship to get a better idea of what it’s all about
- Share stories, insights, and lessons related to public health
Thank you for helping to build this blog. At the top of this page are tabs linking to profiles of current Fellows, alumni Fellows, and Fellowship staff and faculty. On the left side of the page are collections of blogs, resources, and journals read by your peers.
If you have questions for current and alumni Fellows, please post a comment or send an email [see About Me section under the list of Journals].
