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MPH Faculty
The MPH program, housed in the Department of Population Health Sciences, is an interdisciplinary program supported by faculty, staff and community members across the UW campus and around the state. Contributing members to the MPH program can be divided into three groups: MPH Program Faculty (including Core Course Faculty), MPH Affiliate Faculty, and MPH Community Faculty. UW-Madison faculty or academic staff who contribute substantively to the MPH program through teaching, mentoring, and service are appointed as MPH Public Health Program Faculty.
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Core Course Faculty Member
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Area(s) of Research/Study
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Mark Edgar, PhD, MPH |
Public health systems research, workforce assessment and development, competency development, community health assessment |
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Statistics, Natural Science
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Epidemiology, Environmental Health
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Health Promotion, HIV Prevention, Tobacco Control
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School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
Director
Masters of Public Health Program
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Health Policy and Management, Health Politics and Policy, Public Policy Making, Health System Reform, Policy Innovation, Leadership, Health Care Competition, Managed Care, Medicare, Medicaid, State Health Policy
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Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
Email - Bio Professor Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Study Academic Programs & Sustainability & Global Environment Population Health Sciences
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Climate Change, Land Use Charge, Environmental Health
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Public Health Practice, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Measuring Health in Communities
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Cancer, Genetic Epidemiology
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Program Faculty Member
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Area(s) of Research/Study
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Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Epidemiology
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Linda Baumann, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN
Email - Bio Professor School of Nursing and School of Medicine & Public Health Academic & Student Service |
Global Health, Interdisciplinary Teams, Rural Health, Self-regulation, Health Beliefs
Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Medicine
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Bridget Booske, PhD, MHSA |
County Health Rankings, Consumer Decision Making |
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Nutrition, Children with Special Needs
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Preparedness, Public Health Laboratory Related Issues
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| Karl Broman, PhD Email - Bio Professor School of Medicine and Public Health Biostatistics & Medical Informatics |
Statistics, Gene Mapping |
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Substance Abuse Screening and Intervention, Community Health
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Women's Health, Leadership
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Population Health Sciences
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Focus is on the Impact of Public Policies on Health |
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Global Health Education, |
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Injury Prevention, Advocacy, Injury Policy
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Rural Health, Community Health
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Consumer Law |
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Labor and Health Economics
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Sequential Methods of Statistical Analysis, Clinical Trials Methodology
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International Health
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Barbara Duerst, MS
Associate Director School of Medicine & Public Health Population Health Sciences |
Community Health Programs, Public Health Nursing, Rural Health, Public Health Adminstration
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Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology
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Mark Edgar, PhD, MPH |
Public health systems research, workforce assessment and development, competency development, community health assessment
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Genetic Epidemiology, Public Health Genomics
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Screening, Pediatrics, Pulmonary Disorders
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Elizabeth Feder, PhD |
Policy, Evidence Based Policy |
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Statistics, Natural Science
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Community Health Programs, Community Based Clinical Research, Medical Humanities, Medical Journalism
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| Donna Friedsam, MPH Email - Bio Researcher School of Medicine & Public Health Population Health Sciences |
Health care financing, costs, quality and access to care; disparities in health status and health care utilization; Medicaid and other safety net programs |
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Health Law, Patient Advocacy
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Population Health Sciences & Center for Global Health
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Primary Health Care, Medical Education, Global Health
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Marilyn Haynes Brokopp, MS, RN, APHN-BC |
Community and Public health, Health policy and leadership |
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Vaccine Response
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Paul Hunter, MD |
Tuberculosis,Immunizations,Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Community Nutrition, Bridging the gaps between clinical medicine, community efforts, and public health by reaching out to clinicians with brief educational sessions and by working on projects guided by community members. |
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Epidemiology, Environmental Health
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Pediatrics, Preventitive Medicine
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| Paul Kelleher, PhD Email - Bio Assistant Professor School of Medicine & Public Health Medical History & Bioethics |
Public Health Ethics |
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Sequential Methods of Statistical Analysis, Clinical Trials Methodology, Categorical Data Analysis, Survival Analysis, Repeated Measures Analysis, Applications in Cancer Research, Applications in Ophhthalmology
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Health Promotion, HIV Prevention, Tobacco Control
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| Kristen Malecki, PhD Email - Bio Assistant Professor School of Medicine & Public Health Population Health Sciences |
Climate Change Impacts |
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Amy Meinen |
Obesity Prevention, Public Health Nutrition, Food Environment/Food Systems |
| Paul Moberg, PhD Email - Bio Senior Scientist School of Medicine & Public Health Graduate School Population Health Sciences Waisman Center |
HIV/AIDS Education, Maternal & Child Health |
| Megan Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH Email - Bio Assistant Professor School of Medicine & Health Pediatrics |
Adolescent Health |
| Ken Mount Email - Bio Associate Dean School of Medicine and Public Health Fiscal Affairs |
Budeting, Accounting, & Reporting |
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Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology, Consequences of Sleep Disorders, Epidemiology Methods
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Dipesh Nivsaria, MPH, MS(LIS), MD |
Early Childhood, Early Literacy, Medical Education, Advocacy
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Health Policy and Management, Health Politics and Policy, Public Policy Making, Health System Reform, Policy Innovation, Leadership, Health Care Competition, Managed Care, Medicare, Medicaid, State Health Policy
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Influenza, Zoonotic Disease, Molecular Epidemiology
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Climate Change, Land Use Charge, Environmental Health
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| Paul Peppard Email - Bio Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health Sciences
Director of Scientific Operations, Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study Investigator, Survey of the Health of Wisconsin (SHOW) |
Research into the causes and consequences of sleep disorders |
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Caitlin Pepperell, MD |
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases |
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Public Health Practice, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Measuring Health in Communities
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Administration, Preventive Medicine
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Prevention, Parent-Child Relations, Health Risk Behaviors, Public Health Nursing
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Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biological Aspects of Drugs and Chemopreventive Agent
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Laura Senier |
Sociology of Public Health and Medicine, Community Environmental Health, and Environmental Justice. |
| Ajay Sethi, PhD, MHS Email - Bio Associate Professor School of Medicine & Public Health Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene |
Clinical Research, Epidemiology, Global Health, Social & Behavioral Health Sciences |
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Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, Community Health Nursing, Land Resources
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Kirstin Siemering, DrPH, RD |
Lead Researcher on the Match Project |
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tion Health Sciences
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Cancer, Genetic Epidemiology
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Kurt Sladky |
Zoological Medicine;fg Conservation medicine and the interface between wildlife, domestic animal, and human health and disease, antrhopogneic influences on infectous and noninfectious diseases affecting free-ranging wildlife species and the consequences on ecosystm, animal, and human health; Comparative nondomesitc animal analgesia/anesthesia |
| Karen Solheim, RN, PhD Email - Bio Clinical Professor School of Nursing |
Partnerships between International non-governmental organizations and communities they serve. |
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Lisa Steinkamp, PT, MS, MBA
Email - Bio Faculty Associate School of Medicine & Public Health Orthopedics & Rehabilitation |
Physical Therapy, Health Professional Development
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Urban Population Health, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Public Health Advocacy and Leadership
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Epidemiology, Cancer, Women’s Health, Cancer Survivorship
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Health Law, Patient Advocacy
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James Vergeront, MD
Adjunct Associate Professor School of Medicine & Public Health Population Health Sciences |
AIDS/HIV, Communicable Disease
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Mark Wegner, MD, MPH
Adjunct Assistant Professor School of Medicine & Public Health Population Health Sciences |
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Preventive Medicine
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Social and Psychological Determinants of Population Health Behaviors, Health, and Healthcare Utilization
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Disparities in Health, Links between Income and Health, Public Health Insurance Programs
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Susan Yackee |
Bureaucratic politics, social policy and the policymaking process |
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Local Public Health System Performance, Public Health Performance Measurement, Public Health Nursing Practice Improvement, Public Health Workforce Development, Evaluation of Continuing Education Approaches for Public Health Nursing Preceptors
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