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. 
 

Core Course Faculty Member
Area(s) of Research/Study
Ismor Fischer, PhD
Email - Bio
Lecturer
School of Medicine & Public Health and College of Letters & Sciences
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Statistics
 
Statistics, Natural Science
Marty Kanarek, PhD, MPH
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health and Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Study
Population Health Sciences
 
Epidemiology, Environmental Health
Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Health Promotion, HIV Prevention, Tobacco Control
Thomas Oliver, PhD
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
Director
Masters of Public Health Program
 
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
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Professor
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Study
Academic Programs & Sustainability & Global Environment
Population Health Sciences
 
Climate Change, Land Use Charge, Environmental Health
Patrick Remington, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Associate Dean & Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Public Health Practice, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Measuring Health in Communities
Susan Riesch, PhD, RN, FAAN
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Nursing & Graduate School
Academic & Student Services & Waisman Center
 
Prevention, Parent-Child Relations, Health Risk Behaviors, Public Health Nursing
Hal Skinner, PhD, MPH 
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
Cancer, Genetic Epidemiology
 
Program Faculty Member
Area(s) of Research/Study
Henry Anderson, MD
Email - Bio
Adjunct Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health and Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Study
Population Health Sciences & Sustainability & Global Environment
 
Environmental Health, Occupational Health, Epidemiology
Linda Baumann, PhD, APRN, BC, FAAN
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Nursing and School of Medicine & Public Health
Academic & Student Service

Marvin Birnbaum, MD, PhD
Email - Bio
Professor Emeritus
School of Medicine & Public Health
Medicine
 
 
Global Health, Interdisciplinary Teams, Rural Health, Self-regulation, Health Beliefs
 

 
Disaster Preparedness, Emergency Medicine
Elizabeth Bolt
Email - Bio
Associate Dean
School of Medicine & Public Health
Administrative Affairs
Supports the Development and Maintenance of a Statewide Research Infrastructure

Bridget Booske, PhD, MHSA
Email - Bio
Senior Scientist
School of Medicine and Public Health
UW Population Health Institute

County Health Rankings, Consumer Decision Making
Anne Bradford Harris, PhD
Email - Bio
Clinical Assistant Professor
Graduate School
Waisman Center
 
Nutrition, Children with Special Needs
Charles Brokopp, DrPH, MPH
Email - Bio
Director & Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Wisconsin State Lab of Hygiene & Population Health Sciences
 
Preparedness, Public Health Laboratory Related Issues
Karl Broman, PhD
Email - Bio

Professor
School of Medicine and Public Health
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
 
Statistics, Gene Mapping
Richard Brown, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Family Medicine
 
Substance Abuse Screening and Intervention, Community Health
Molly Carnes, MD
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health and College of Engineering
Medicine & Industrial Engineering
 
Women's Health, Leadership
Marion Ceraso, MHS
Email - Bio
Senior Health Policy Analyst
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Focus is on the Impact of Public Policies on Health
Tim Corden, MD
Email - Bio
Adjunct Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Injury Prevention, Advocacy, Injury Policy
Byron Crouse, MD
Email - Bio
Associate Dean & Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Administration & Family Medicine
 
Rural Health, Community Health
Sarah Davis
Email - Bio
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Wisconsin Law School 
and Associate Director of the Center for Patient Partnerships
 

Consumer Law
Health Law
Health Law: Patient Advocacy
 

Thomas DeLeire, PhD
Email - Bio
Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health and LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Population Health Sciences and Public Affairs
 
Labor and Health Economics
Dave Demets, PhD
Email - Bio
Professor & Chair
School of Medicine & Public Health and College of Letters & Sciences
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics & Statistics
 
Sequential Methods of Statistical Analysis, Clinical Trials Methodology
Lori DiPrete-Brown, MSPH
Email - Bio
Administrative Program Manager
School of Medicine & Public Health
Academic Affairs - International Programs
 
International Health
Barbara Duerst, MS
Email
Associate Director
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Community Health Programs, Public Health Nursing, Rural Health, Public Health Adminstration
Maureen Durkin, MPH, PhD, DrPH
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences & Pediatrics
Perinatal and Pediatric Epidemiology

Mark Edgar, PhD, MPH
Email
Senior Outreach Specialist
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
Wisconsin Center for Public Health Education and Training

Public health systems research, workforce assessment and development, competency development, community health assessment

 

Corinne Engelman, MSPH, PhD
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Genetic Epidemiology, Public Health Genomics
Philip Farrell, MD, PhD
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Pediatrics & Population Health Sciences
 
Screening, Pediatrics, Pulmonary Disorders
Ismor Fischer, PhD
Email - Bio
Lecturer
School of Medicine & Public Health and College of Letters & Sciences
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics and Statistics
 
Statistics, Natural Science
Mike Fleming, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Family Medicine
 
Prevention and Treatment of Drug Use Disorders
John Frey, MD
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Family Medicine
 
Community Health Programs, Community Based Clinical Research, Medical Humanities, Medical Journalism
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
Meg Gaines, JD
Email - Bio
Clinical Professor
Law School and School of Medicine & Public Health
Law School & UW Comprehensive Cancer Center
 
Health Law, Patient Advocacy
Cindy Haq, MD
Email - Bio
Professor & Director
School of Medicine & Public Health
Family Medicine
Population Health Sciences & Center for Global Health
Primary Health Care, Medical Education, Global Health

Marilyn Haynes Brokopp, MS, RN, APHN-BC
EmailBio
Clinical Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
School of Nursing

Community and Public health, Health policy and leadership
Mary Hayney, PharmD, MPH
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Pharmacy
Pharmacy
Vaccine Response

Paul Hunter
Email
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Family Medicine

Family Medicine
Marty Kanarek, PhD, MPH
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health and Gaylord Nelson Institute of Environmental Study
Population Health Sciences
 
Epidemiology, Environmental Health
Murray Katcher, MD, PhD
Email - Bio
Clinical Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
 
Pediatrics, Preventitive Medicine
Paul Kelleher, PhD
Email - Bio

Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Medical History & Bioethics
 
Public Health Ethics
Kyungmann Kim, PhD
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health and College of Letters & Sciences
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics & Statistics
 
Sequential Methods of Statistical Analysis, Clinical Trials Methodology, Categorical Data Analysis, Survival Analysis, Repeated Measures Analysis, Applications in Cancer Research, Applications in Ophhthalmology
Ana Martinez-Donate, PhD
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Health Promotion, HIV Prevention, Tobacco Control
Kristen Malecki, PhD
Email
Assistant Scientist
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Climate Change Impacts
George Mejicano, MD, MS
Email - Bio
Associate Dean & Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Academic Affairs & Medicine
 
Infectious Disease, Preparedness
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
F. Javier Nieto, MD, PhD, MPH
Email - Bio
Chair & Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology, Consequences of Sleep Disorders, Epidemiology Methods
Kathleen Noonan
Email
Clinical Associate Professor
Law School
 
Launching a new Legislative and Government Clinic
Thomas Oliver, PhD
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
Director
Masters of Public Health Program
 
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
Christopher Olsen, DVM, PhD
Email - Bio
Associate Dean & Professor
School of Veterinary Medicine
Academic Affairs & Pathobiological Sciences
 
Influenza, Zoonotic Disease, Molecular Epidemiology
Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Professor
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Study
Academic Programs & Sustainability & Global Environment
Population Health Sciences
 
Climate Change, Land Use Charge, Environmental Health
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
Patrick Remington, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Associate Dean & Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Public Health Practice, Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Measuring Health in Communities
Gordon Ridley, MS
Email - Bio
Associate Vice Chancellor & Clinical Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Administration & Preventive Medicine
 
Administration, Preventive Medicine
Susan Riesch, DNSc
Email - Bio
Professor
School of Nursing & Graduate School
Academic & Student Services & Waisman Center
 
Prevention, Parent-Child Relations, Health Risk Behaviors, Public Health Nursing
Jeanette Roberts, PhD, MPH
Email

Dean & Professor
School of Pharmacy
Administration & Pharmacy
Medicinal/Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Biological Aspects of Drugs and Chemopreventive Agent

Laura Senier
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Community and Environmental Sociology

Sociology of Public Health and Medicine, Community Environmental Health, and Environmental Justice.
Ajay Sethi, PhD, MHS
Email - Bio

Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
 
Clinical Research, Epidemiology, Global Health, Social & Behavioral Health Sciences
Lori Severtson, RN, MS, PhD
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Academic and Student Services
Health Promotion, Disease Prevention, Community Health Nursing, Land Resources

Kirstin Siemering, DrPH, RD
Email - Bio
Researcher
Population Health Sciences
UW Population Health Institute

Lead Researcher on the Match Project
Hal Skinner, PhD
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Cancer, Genetic Epidemiology
Lisa Steinkamp, PT, MS, MBA
Email - Bio
Faculty Associate
School of Medicine & Public Health
Orthopedics & Rehabilitation
 
Physical Therapy, Health Professional Development
Geoffrey Swain, MD, MPH
Email - Bio
Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Family Medicine
 
Urban Population Health, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Public Health Advocacy and Leadership
Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Epidemiology, Cancer, Women’s Health, Cancer Survivorship
Louise Trubek, JD
Email - Bio
Emerita Clinical Professor
Law School
Law School & Women's Studies Program
 
Health Law, Patient Advocacy
James Vergeront, MD
Email
Adjunct Associate Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
AIDS/HIV, Communicable Disease
Mark Wegner, MD, MPH
Email
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Preventive Medicine
Whitney Witt, PhD, MPH
Email - Bio
Assistant Professor
School of Medicine & Public Health
Population Health Sciences
 
Social and Psychological Determinants of Population Health Behaviors, Health, and Healthcare Utilization
Bobbi Wolfe, PhD
Email - Bio
Chair & Professor
College of Letters & Science and School of Medicine & Public Health
LaFollette School of Public Affairs & Population Health Sciences
Disparities in Health, Links between Income and Health, Public Health Insurance Programs

Susan Yackee
Email -
Bio
Associate Professor
College of Letters & Science
LaFollette School of Public Affairs

Bureaucratic politics, social policy and the policymaking process
Susan Zahner, DrPH, MPH
Email - Bio
Associate Professor
School of Nursing and School of Medicine & Public Health
Academic & Student Services & Population Health Sciences
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