Jared Collins

Jared Collins is a first year master's student in the Master of Public Health Program and is working as a Project Assistant at the Population Health Institute. He graduated from San Jose State University in 2003 with a BS in Electrical Engineering, and in 2007 he completed a Masters degree in Biomedical Engineering at UW-Madison. While completing his masters, Jared worked on a community-based research project investigating the beliefs, stigmas, and mechanisms for coping with mental illness in the African American community. In his current position at the Institute, Jared is seeking to identify and disseminate evidence-based interventions and promising practices to help reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in the state of Wisconsin. Upon completion of the MPH program, Jared hopes to begin medical school. He would like to use the MPH degree to focus on improving care for entire communities by focusing on disease prevention and the initial causes of disease such as tobacco use, improper diet, and physical inactivity. His ultimate goal is to become a primary care, public-health physician and to open a lifestyle center in a low-income, medically underserved community.

Contact Information:

Jared Collins
University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute
507 WARF Building
610 Walnut Street
Madison, Wisconsin 53726-2397

Phone: (608) 262-5254
Email: jaredcollins@wisc.edu